[SML] failing bulbs (was Recall....)

[Charlie Richmond]

Stopping production of CFLs at this point (I shouldn't have used the term
'exclusively'):
http://www.gereports.com/say-goodbye-say-hello-ge-stops-making-cfls-says-go-go-go-to-leds/

On 4 March 2016 at 09:13, Riter, Andrew <andrew.riter at ubc.ca> wrote:

> Does that mean they are stopping production of everything else, or just
> stopping R&D on new incandescents?
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> Andrew M. Riter
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> Assistant Technical Director / Head Lighting Technician
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> 604-822-2372
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> Andrew.riter at ubc.ca
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> *From:* Charlie Richmond [mailto:charlie.rsd at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, March 04, 2016 9:02 AM
> *To:* Stagecraft Mailing List
> *Cc:* Riter, Andrew
> *Subject:* Re: [SML] failing bulbs (was Recall....)
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> The quality of incandescent (all types) bulbs will continue to decrease as
> the world moves away from them.  GE recently announced they are going to
> focus exclusively on LEDs.
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> Charlie
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> On 4 March 2016 at 08:45, Riter, Andrew via Stagecraft <
> stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
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> Just had an interesting incident:
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> Campus utility workers were changing bulbs in my building.  A T-10 60w
> bulb, vertical in a socket, had the glass envelope separate from the
> screw-in base.  They pulled the base out from the reflector from above, and
> found no glass envelope.  About 1 second later, they located the envelope
> by the sound of the smash 60 below.
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> Andrew M. Riter
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> Assistant Technical Director / Head Lighting Technician
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> 604-822-2372
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> Andrew.riter at ubc.ca
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