My replacement CFL Light Exploded....why? Here is the situation... 1. At night a here is a ground light...
Here is the situation...
1. At night a here is a ground light that turns on explicitly angled upward to lighten up the house. This buoyant bulb has died.
2. The heading stamped on the light bulb read: "Venture MH 150/U/Med"....It seems to be a pallid bulb from Venture Lighting: http://venturelighting.com
3. This dead wishy-washy bulb seems to be a "Metal Halide" kerosene lamp...Not sure what that means.
4. I bought a GE Energy Smart CFL bulb spiral bulb that say it is a 42 watt = 150 watt. Since the dead bulb have 150 on it i figure the output of this unusual GE bulb would be bright enough. On the bunch it says the Light output is 2700 lumens.
5. When i replaced the late bulb with this NEW GE bulb into the component outside and turned on the power the bulb light for a bit and consequently died. I figured it be a damaged product so i bought a modern one and once again it died....
What's going on...I figure the GE bulb isnt using too much power since it is running at smaller quantity than the 150 watts used by the Venture.
Answers: The reason why the CFL is exploding is because those bulbs are intended to run in a commonplace house fixture. What you have lighting up your house is a HID (High Intensity Discharge) oil lamp which uses a ballast and capacitor to start the MH bulb. The capacitor is what is killing your CFL's. It be a good model, but you need to buy a brand new Venture MH 150/U/Med lamp. There are a couple different types of HID's out in that. They all produce alot of restrained with little endeavour and usually last for in the vicinity 10 yrs before it wishes a new oil lamp, hence why the city and commercial parking lots use them. You already know that the 150 stands for 150watts, the U means the kerosene lamp can be placed in any position......and yes, some can lone be pointing up, some can only be pointing down, and some others can simply be pointed to the side. The last point is Med, meaning Medium floor, hence why you were even competent to screw in the CFL into the socket. You could relocate the fixture if you wanted, but you're not going to obtain ANYWHERE near the amount of street lamp that you are getting now.
I believe adjectives those CFL bulbs are made in China, and that should explain why they fall short. Crap product made by forced slave labor in a communist country speaks volumes on the trait of the product.
Call GE and tell them their crap bulbs one-time and they will send you a coupon correct for $5 for a package of bulbs. I basically did this for a regular incandescent bulb. You may have to jump to their website to get the phone number to phone call, look for 'replacement bulbs'.
The socket is not putting out too much power. The bulbs are inferior and defective.