It's another Clive...

[tabbypurr]

this time with a weird CFL fault, it lights dim & pink

NT

[Tricky Dicky]

i do not think he is long for this world the way he is connecting and handling his mains supply.

Richard

[tabbypurr]

:) I think he's going to learn some respect!

NT

[philipuk]

More like ElectroBoom

[tabbypurr]

He certainly hit on one with this:

Crazy or what

NT

[Steve Walker]

Odd for a GU10. Early ES/BC CFLs often started a dim pink, then brightened and whitened as they warmed. I'd have thought all the GU10 CFLs were too late for that.

SteveW

[Andrew Gabriel]

It means it's run out of mercury in the discharge. The pink is the argon gas discharging, and it's dim because it doesn't emit UV to ecxite the phosphor.

This is not uncommon for a worn lamp where the mercury gets absorbed into the phosphor and other internal parts, and lost from the discharge over time, combined with the minimal mercury dosing which is used in fluorescent tubes nowadays anyway. For a new lamp, it would be a manufacturing fault.

[tabbypurr]

If I were trading standards I'd do a big seller round up & prosecute for that.