Without wanting to re-open old debates, does anyone know where I can get good quality, branded 40W pearl GLS incandescent light bulbs? As supplies dwindle, eBay sellers now seem only to be punting out unknown unbranded bulbs - the sister of a neighbour bought something like this, and every one blew within a short time of being fitted.
Cheers Richard
I get mine from the Lighting Superstore:
Maybe being bumped around in the postal system is the reason that they failed.
I was surprised to see 100w bulbs for sale only this morning. Thought they were history.
mark
Or 230volt (or even 220volt) from abroad.
Superstore:
Thanks. I can but try a pack of ten and see how they go.
Cheers Richard
Unbranded are fine IME, but posted is not. Wickes and poundland were both selling them last time I looked.
NT
Homebase as well ( or at least they were a couple of weeks ago), but they were the own-brand 40W candle bulbs.
-- Halmyre
Our local Tesco has a big pile of them by the front door - Philips, I think. Big sign "Last chance to buy" over them.
Been there for weeks and not showing any sign of selling.
UK spec is now 230V. Fiddled to make it near as damnit the same as before by sliding the tolerances around. We're at 245V here which is still in range.
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With bayonet caps?
Perhaps they should move them to mine.
They had a bin of the "last chance" bulbes the day after Xmas, nothing in it worth buying and the shop's now completely empty of old fashioned bulbs
tim
Anyone seen this German attempt to get round the EU rules?
Unfortunately, he lost when they took him and/ or his suppliers to court, and I suspect will also lose the appeal. That's why he's currently out of stock.
Shame.
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They won't work in the UK. The screw thread is the wrong way round!! ;o)))
Ian Jackson gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:
Nah, you're thinking of southern hemisphere.
Translated from a chat with an Austrian barmaid.
"Germans are like Austrians, but with a sense of humour."
Nice girl, she was/ is.
Yeah so do a couple of our stores, I didn't look closely but the ones I saw were clear not pearl.
Could well be - I didn't look that closely, having no use for such things.
But incandescents are still 240 volt in UK, and other voltages as appropriate in other harmonised countries.
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