Yikes! Burn marks on ceiling above chandy bulbs
Oakley
7 years ago
Picture below. I noticed these burn marks this morning, with the chandy turned off. Not sure what made me look up.
The chandy is six years old and the original bulbs were frosted. I'm sure they were 40w because the replacement bulbs which are clear, are 40w. I would never up the wattage. There's one frosted bulb left in the chandy, which I took out a few minutes ago, and I noticed one of the darker circles is above it.
The frosted bulbs lasted 5 years before they burnt out. It was last year I replaced them with clear bulbs, and the clear bulbs don't feel all that hot above them, and none have burnt out yet.
The top of the bulbs are 17.5" from the ceiling.
How could a 40w bulb do this, since each mark is directly over a bulb?
The package of clear bulbs doesn't say what type of bulb it is, whether it's LED or Halogen.
I wonder if the frosted bulbs were halogen? Don't they get hotter than LED?
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7 years agolast modified: 7 years ago"Speaking of clear bulbs, if I put one in a table lamp with a shade, would I get a brighter light?" Yes! I've been so impressed lately by the bright light I get from led bulbs. I had a halogen floor lamp next to my bed for reading that used a 100 wt bulb. It was one like this that I could swing right over my book and was on a dimmer.
But it would get HOT, as halogen bulbs do and I always worried it would swing into the headboard and cause a fire.
Recently I shopped for a new lamp and found a similar style that uses an LED bulb and worried it wouldn't be bright as I like, but it IS! It's wonderful, no heat generated at all - the metal lamp shade doesn't even get warm. And it's every bit as bright as the halogen, plus it is also dimmable. I am sold on LED.
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