my lights keep popping in the house (maybe 4-5 diffrent bulbs every week) i actually spen £30 last week on 11 bulbs , robbin gits, any ideas any 1? house was re-wired about 11 yrs ago and i belive my fusebox is a crabtree just switched my kitchen unit lights on a 2 bulbs just popped , kitchen was fitted in oct 05 through b n q with qualified electrician. any help appreciated
Not an electrician but sounds like a power surge, a call to your supplier might help before spending money
Are they the circular halogen type ones with the two pronged fitting? We have them in our kitchen and when they wear out you turn them on and they blow and take out the trip in the fusebox. It's unlikely you keep buying dodgy bulbs so they only thing I can thing of is that the bulbs are drawing too much current so you need to uprate the breaker device in the fusebox which covers the lighting circuit.
[QUOTE=John]Not an electrician but sounds like a power surge, a call to your supplier might help before spending money[/QUOTE] good call cheers , rang them up and they put me in touch with nedl? who are coming to check it today Are they the circular halogen type ones with the two pronged fitting? We have them in our kitchen and when they wear out you turn them on and they blow and take out the trip in the fusebox. It's unlikely you keep buying dodgy bulbs so they only thing I can thing of is that the bulbs are drawing too much current so you need to uprate the breaker device in the fusebox which covers the lighting circuit. yes i have bloody loads of them , but not just them, it pops normall ones aswell and the fuse box hardly ever trips?
the blubs will on draw what power they need. it sounds like spikes to me
Most halogen bulbs are low voltage so if they keep blowing its a transformer problem. If the others are standard bulbs at 230 volt then 1 or 2 could be a dodgy bulb, but from the amount you say, your voltage is wrong. I had this at a customers and it damaged the air con compressor, the voltage was around 260 which is not supposed to happen, but it did, the compressor ran hotter than normal and burnt out. The elecricity board paid his bill for my repair! Also you had a recent rewire so you must have mcb's (minature circuit breakers) and no actual fuses. These normally trip when a bulb fails, i.e when a bulb is faulty. Mike
:anmflower £30 for eleven bulbs..now thats steep!!!! if you have a crabtree board they probably already be mcb's. as far as i am aware,nedl will only check as far as the electric meter. if you do have to get a sparks,get one who is part P compliant.
I'm an electrician!!! could be so many things, if u wanna give me a buzz, my number is 07830459251
and i though my house had a problem i go through 120 bulbs a week round my drum but most are b&q bulbs so say no more 2 prong halaCONS stupid cheap crappy light fittings from b&q my energy savers never blow and ive had them years :slap:
[QUOTE=GATHY]and i though my house had a problem i go through 120 bulbs a week round my drum [/QUOTE] Eh!?
thanks all spesh can i ring u tomorrow?