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Generic 9w CFL, first one failed The first one of these interestingly shaped generic 9w CFLs I got from eBay has died after probably less than 250 hours run time. It really doesn't look good inside, very cheap smoothing capacitor and the badly wound toroidal transformer that can be seen has burnt up and could be the cause of the failure. This could be a one-off I guess, I'll see how the others fair. I broke the glass when opening it up, the joint between the tubes is very fragile. P.s. re-uploaded as the old picture was rubbish and couldn't replace it?

Generic 9w CFL, first one failed


The first one of these interestingly shaped generic 9w CFLs I got from eBay has died after probably less than 250 hours run time. It really doesn't look good inside, very cheap smoothing capacitor and the badly wound toroidal transformer that can be seen has burnt up and could be the cause of the failure. This could be a one-off I guess, I'll see how the others fair.

I broke the glass when opening it up, the joint between the tubes is very fragile.

P.s. re-uploaded as the old picture was rubbish and couldn't replace it?

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Danny   [12 Apr, 2018 at 07:25 PM]
Lol these look crap I don’t like the weak joints on them. What was up with the replace button?
fluorescent   [13 Apr, 2018 at 06:26 PM]
Instead of the new picture appearing after hitting the 'replace' button, the old picture remained but was stretched out to the aspect ratio of the new one? Maybe if I'd left it a few minutes the new pic would have appeared, but I just deleted it and started again.

Yes I suspect all these will have a poor life after looking at this one, but I could be wrong, we'll see!
Danny   [13 Apr, 2018 at 07:06 PM]
Oh yea that happened to me the other day aswell I’ll have aword with Jon tomorrow as he’s coming over
fluorescent   [24 Aug, 2018 at 01:58 AM]
The one that replaced this has just failed with a massive sock at one of the cathodes, it lasted 4 whole months. These are junk! On the plus side though, I now have a growing collection of spare B22 caps and plastic bases for cap conversions and/or project lamps

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