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RE: Light Bulb Dilemma

To: <beels@technologist.com>, <shop-talk@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: Light Bulb Dilemma
From: <ken.landaiche@nokia.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 08:57:47 -0800
Check the voltage at the fixtures.

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: ext Richard Beels [mailto:beels@technologist.com]

Friend of mine is having a rough time with light bulbs in his living 
room.  We've gone through a few things to try and we're coming up 
dark.  His next step is to call the elctric company and see what they say.

The light bulbs in his living room fry in a week or two.  The don't all go 
at once, but once one goes, the rest go in the next couple days.  He's 
tried, 10-year bulbs, rough-service bulbs, florescent replacement bulbs and 
they all go out in the same timeframe.  They've left the fixture covers off 
in the attempt to reduce heat.  He lives in a trailer so the house does 
shake a bit when washing clothes but it's only the living room that has 
this problem and it doesn't shake any worse than the rest of the house (and 
rough-service bulbs didn't help any).  The light sin the rest of the house 
are fine and the other items on this circuit are fine as well.

<snipped>
in our living room, we go through light bulbs by the case. The ceiling has 
these fake "beams", they're essentially long boxes made up of wood 
paneling. In the end of each one, there's a rectangular hole with an 
incadescent fixture in it, and the fixture is covered with a panel of 
translucent plexiglass - sort of a low-rent "recessed lighting" affair. 
Three "beams", a fixture in each end, total of six fixtures.    
</snipped>


Any ideas out there?

Cheers!

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