Light Bulb Ban Suspended For Another Year!

PV Pilot wrote:The light bulbs still keep popping on over there heads and they don't want to run out of the ability to have a idea.

,,,and since the last lightbulb factory in the US closed down last year, sadly. Now we are importing light.

microflitedude wrote:My brother is overjoyed. He bought about 50 bulbs last week to save and use.

SuperDave wrote:

microflitedude wrote:My brother is overjoyed. He bought about 50 bulbs last week to save and use.

Must be a trend, I stocked up on ammo too and for same reason. "Lock and Load"!

PV Pilot wrote:Bout time to open up my ebay light bulb store.

1 100 watt soft white
Starting bid,,$35
BIN,, $80.

Lord help us.

Admin wrote:

PV Pilot wrote:Bout time to open up my ebay light bulb store.

1 100 watt soft white
Starting bid,,$35
BIN,, $80.

Lord help us.

LOL, people are actually doing that already...

John Goddard wrote:Stock up while you can Gents they're illegal
To sell in Europe now.
It won't be long before our Chinese friends
Stop making them.

SuperDave wrote:How can a elecrical device "pull" watts"? More likely you mean "pull amps" (amperage) Two entirely different electrical measurements.

John Goddard wrote:

Admin wrote:

My cousin who lives here in America bought somewhere around 50 bayonet base 240 volt 100 watt bulbs online before they were banned in the UK. I asked exactly what he was going to do with them since we use the Edison "screw" base 120 volt bulbs and he said "to sell on eBay 10 years from now". I then had an argument with him saying that you probably couldn't have them imported if they are banned. Just a month ago, he put some on eBay and he received several messages saying that he wouldn't be able to ship them back into the UK as they are banned, only ones already there can be resold. So right now he is angry!!! As far as I know, he hasn't been doing anything with them. I do know he using one in a old railroad socket (its a double contact bayonet socket, bulb fit it but it is only rated for 32 volts DC) and he used a travel transformer to step it up to 240 volts. He used it for awhile until he figured out that the entire setup was pulling more then 100 watts.

Get Cuz to email me I'd be interested in taking them
Best
John

what up, I still have 46 of them left. I can't get my sony camera to sync with the computer (hint) for some reason so I can't take a picture but everyone knows what a light bulb looks like anyway. They are all in their own little boxes, each box says "MAXIM", "100 WATT", "PEARL", "BAYONET CAP". I'll bring them with me when I come down for Christmas. I originally ordered 50 but a friend wanted 1 of them for some unknown reason, a guy from work wanted 1 for his concession stand (I guess it works with his generator), you have one and I have to keep one since I built a stupid setup to light it. I ordered them to sell them once they were no longer available but when I listed them on ebay, I got messages telling me that I may not be able to send them back across the boarder since they are not to be imported, so I don't know if I would be able to send them to your friend. Right now they are downstairs with my pile of other (regular 110 volt 100s, 75s, 60s, 40s...) hoarded bulbs. I know I can sell them to whoever doesn't have a ban on them and that sounds like...no one! We and the other 3rd world nations don't have active bans on incandescent bulbs. I think that just goes to show what we are actually on the right track, the reason the 3rd world nations don't have the bans are because they cant afford to enforce something like that nor can the people afford those high price CFL bastards. We don't have the ban mostly because people bitched about the quality and the fact the the government can't tell us what kind of bulbs to buy. I do believe that these old style bulbs will one day be unavailable so I'm hanging onto my stash of them. These UK bulbs have no real use to me since I really don't want to connect the phases like you said and my voltage step-up box with a 240 volt 100 watt draws more current then a regular 110 volt 100 watt bulb does so really I would just be wasting energy for the same light. If I can't sell them overseas, I can always sell them to this guy from work since he has some concession stand that he uses at county fairs, I remember him saying that all his fryers and stuff is 220 volts so by using that bulb, he won't need to set up his extra wiring to the generator for a light inside as he could just tap from one of the fryer plugs. Whatever, I'll bring you about 20 of them to do whatever you want with them, risk shipping them back to the UK, pop a breaker plugging one straight in, whatever. Talk to you later. Allen

Jaspur_x wrote:And i can hear that phone call about the chinese light bulb`s warranty now playing in my head........" hewwo hewwo, yes suh you awe hawing tubble wit youw bwand new wite bubs no wowk........that too bad,hav ni day

John Goddard wrote:Dave that was so left field, for a second I was transported to "I'd like to complain" "You want to complain, have you seen these shoes"?