CFL Blowout

[Favreman]

Every morning my CFL is blown out. I don't want to keep using new ones.

I'm using the "truelite" brand from home depot, 100 watt, in one of those metal work light fixtures, hanging upside down.

Any thoughts?

Favreman Reviewed by Favreman on 03-16-2011. CFL Blowout Every morning my CFL is blown out. I don't want to keep using new ones. I'm using the "truelite" brand from home depot, 100 watt, in one of those metal work light fixtures, hanging upside down. Any thoughts? Rating: 5

[CanGroIt]

Might be your electrical, could be too much humidity, could be the wrong bulb for ballast, could be a number of things..... Sometimes when too much electricity is available to a bulb, your bulb can and will burn out. So it wouldn't be a good idea to put a 400 watt hps bulb in a 1000 watt hps ballast. Know what I mean??.....

The best advice for you would be for you to get an actual grow lamp so if you still have these problems, at least you have a manufacturer that you can call to help you trouble shoot.

[tinytoon]

Have you tryed the bulb vertical? I know it sounds stupid but the do make MH and HPS bulbs that burn in specific positions. When you say 100w you do mean actual 23w bulb that is equivilent to a 100w bulb yes?? Could be a shit package, defects happen. take em back to home dePOT and bitch but I wouldn't recommend saying what they are being used for. I use 2 of those work lamps both of which have Y's in them and run 2 23w bulbs each = 200w and no problems what so ever but I also run GE "Daylight" bulbs.

[TANKJR]

Generally speaking, repeated bulb burnouts are caused by a loose neutral wire (usually the white wire) somewhere in that circuit or in the panel itself...provided it's not just a defective pack of lights. Or possibly some kind of voltage spike...are they working on your electric in your neighborhood perchance? I use 16 of these bulbs (from sLowes) in a home made 4 socket system, with numerous Y adapters, and run them 24/0 without any problems in the clone/mom/veggin room...never have had to replace a CFL yet, (a couple of years) and every bulb in my house is one! Might want to have a cool electrician check it out for you...A loose neutral can cause all kinds of problems.

[Dexter007]

i had this problem long time ago and fault was that i was using a wrong timer=D i know sounds srtupid.

[TANKJR]

Not at all Dex...Some relays, or switches, in the timers may not be able to handle the load as designed and may cause a big spike, or drop, if the contacts in the relay or switch are too small for the load, this is really common on older timers with lots of cycles on them...they DO wear out.....think like the timer "dam how come I can't get this to go? push hard, and harder, then BAM ok got it to work...ooops, too much!, blew the bulb...ahh, now I can relax...no load!" I think it's a conspiracy of the timers...:wtf:

[Dexter007]

Not at all Dex...Some relays, or switches, in the timers may not be able to handle the load as designed and may cause a big spike, or drop, if the contacts in the relay or switch are too small for the load, this is really common on older timers with lots of cycles on them...they DO wear out.....think like the timer "dam how come I can't get this to go? push hard, and harder, then BAM ok got it to work...ooops, too much!, blew the bulb...ahh, now I can relax...no load!" I think it's a conspiracy of the timers...:wtf:

thnx man.good info.i didnt eaven knoew that timers can wear out...i only knewd that electronic timers the lcd screen likes to go after 2 years or so that it..thnx.