Blown Light Bulbs

[jlperry]

Hi guys, got a couple of questions,

2 walls lights are wired from the same switch, and both have bulbs have blown within 1 week of each other. At the switch there are 2 cables coming in. 1 cable has 2 browns going into L1 and other into L2. The other has brown into common and the neutral has just been cut and left in the back box?

2G 2way switch in kitchen has 1 switch going to security light which works, other switch controls 2 lights in kitchen (1 works but the other does not) but I believe the light is faulty as there is power to both. My question is about the wiring of the switch. All neutrals are together in a connector block and they have run a strapper cable from the common in 1 switch to the other?

Any ideas please?

 

[steptoe]

that sounds about right TBH,

 

[m4tty]

+1 ^^^

 

[NozSpark]

+2.....

Don't buy cheap lamps... I also find that the high quality GE ses lamps sometimes don't work in cheap light fittings

 

[Blue Duck]

+1 to cheap lamps...

Had a customer with this problem, told her don't buy cheap lamps so she bought a new fitting  headbang  put it up, lamps still blew, checked all connections...DON'T BUY CHEAP LAMPS!!! but they weren't cheap I bought them from Homebase......

I insisted that she buy osram, philips or ge and haven't had a callback since.

I compared the homebase with an osram and the hombase had really small contact points on the base of the bc connector

 

[Bruspark]

Second blue ducks comments. Included incandescent lamps are almost always the cheapest lamp the fitting manufacturer could find on the planet. And they often turn up as the retail shops "own brand" replacements too. Apart from short working life when they fail bad design and poor internal fuses make it more likely they take the circuit breaker out too. This can be tedious if the customer has a 5 way candelabra and one goes every month.

(It's no urban legend as some say - I used to work for a 'proper' fitting and lamp manufacturer)

 

[travishu]

Since there's power to light up the lamp, it may be the problem of the checp lamps, try it again with another lamp.