please prove me right

[clarke24]

Another electrician at work reckons that if you take a 110v halogen floodlight and fit it with a 240v plug and plug it in it will work, only dimmer than when run at 110v. I argued that was rubbish, it would blow the lamp, and if it did run it would run brighter given that as ohms law states increasing the voltage should increase the current. Any one like to add anything please feel free because im sure im right and thought he was surely winding me up.

 

[cheesepuff]

i think if anything the light will go extremley bright then pop.

 

[fireman22]

spot on. senate recently gave us some 110 volt flood light 500w lamps by mistake all came on really bright then popped

 

[Durgo]

Why not prove yourself right? as you say, just plug a 110 light into 240

 

[Lectrician]

That used to be how to scare an apprentice - give him a 110v GLS to fit into a pendent.

The other way around it would be dim - putting a 240v lamp in a 110v fitting.

 

[clarke24]

Thats a good idea durgo. One it will prove it once and for all and when it does go pop ill have the added glee of seeing him jump.

 

[daytona]

the other guy is a sparks?
wtf !

he sounds like a proper noddy mate

 

[comms]

spot on. senate recently gave us some 110 volt flood light 500w lamps by mistake all came on really bright then popped

LOL our workshop mechanic decided to replace the two blown 500w lamps in the 230v tripod work light & couldn't understand why nobody had done so before seen as there were a stack of bulbs in the store.
Unfortunately for him they were 500w 110v lamps used on the appliance mast scene lights..........Oh look they're getting brighter...brighter ..brighter............crack ooooooooooooops
The dopey twonk tried again with the same result , then decided the light was at fault so passed it on to me to repair........gave him stick for weeks

 

[bernardgreen]

i think if anything the light will go extremley bright then pop.

and then be extremely dim...... even dimmer than the sprak who suggested the idea........

 

[Dippy]

That used to be how to scare an apprentice

The modern way to scare an apprentice is to get him to post a question on this forum, right?

 

[bernardgreen]

The modern way to scare an apprentice is to get him to post a question on this forum, right?

No Wrong. Give him a job to do on his own and a sensible deadline to have it finished by

 

[plugwash]

The dopey twonk tried again with the same result , then decided the light was at fault so passed it on to me to repair.

I guess you could rewire it in series so it used the 110V bulbs.