Dangerous fitting or dangerous bulbs?

[stillp]

Calvados, is Eric right in assuming you have ES to G9 adaptors?

 

[Calvados]

No adaptors. The lamps are good quality from a reputable merchants and the G9 bulbs fit direclty in the lamps. There would be no room for any protective cover as the 'shades' are only a few inches high.

 

[EFLImpudence]

What's the point of making your own halogen candles? You can buy them.

 

[Calvados]

can someone also tell me what safety precautions I need to take? I can pull the trip switch back down - then am I OK to extract the two wire loops left in the fitting? I guess I'll need pliers...

 

[bernardgreen]

Switch the remaining lamps ON. then switch the MCB ( the trip) down and check the lamps have gone OFF ( confirms you have turned OFF the correct MCB ) then switch the switch for the lamps OFF ( double protection ).

Pliers should pull out the remains of the bulbs, then check there is no debris left in the holder that would prevent the replacement bulb being fully inserted.

 

[Calvados]

Thanks Bernard.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

so Asda, Tesco, Lidi, or Aldi and I would not expect these stores to have buyer who really know what they are offering for sale

Well I would.

Buyers are professionals - they get paid for doing it. If they don't know about the things they are going out to source, i.e. don't know how to do their job, then they should not be doing it and their employer should not be employing them.

Ban did pick up on G9 ES but he did not seem to consider it was an adaptor.

You're not wrong there.

 

[stillp]

The lamps are good quality from a reputable merchants and the G9 bulbs fit direclty in the lamps

If the G9 capsules are not enclosed, then I disagree that they are good quality.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

The lamps are good quality

You have a lot of evidence showing that is not the case.

from a reputable merchants

From Amazon, cheap

OOI, what voltage are they?

 

[ban-all-sheds]

If the G9 capsules are not enclosed, then I disagree that they are good quality.

Very few are enclosed.

 

[Calvados]

When I say lamps - for clarification - I mean the fittings.
Something like this for the bulbs which were used:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B006PFZ3OM/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

[stillp]

Very few are enclosed.

I meant enclosed by the luminaire.

 

[JohnW2]

The lamps are good quality from a reputable merchants and the G9 bulbs fit direclty in the lamps.

If the G9 capsules are not enclosed, then I disagree that they are good quality.

When I say lamps - for clarification - I mean the fittings.

I meant enclosed by the luminaire.

I think that this is a good illustration of how the changes in terminology/vocabulary which have occurred can result in total confusion!

Just as with my "table lamps", "standard lamps", "inspection lamps" and "headlamps", the "lamp" to which the OP was referring was a fitting/luminaire, not a "lamp which one plugs into the lamp" (aka a bulb!)!

Kind Regards, John

 

[Calvados]

Just checked up on the mess. One blown bulbs has destroyed its fitting. The other is almost embedded (what is left of it).

 

[333rocky333]

60 watt are excessive and run too hot and if the rooms cold that tends to make them fail, though rarely shatter, put in ones about 30 watt, I have never seen smaller wattage ones shatter and fail less.
If not on a dimmer then get G9 led

Its unlikely you will get the wires out with pliers as with A G9 the glass base will be wedged in, usuallly you have to dig it out with a screwdriver without cracking the base

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AS IN THE PHOTO YOU JUST POSTED