Following on from a recent thread (but not wanting to divert his discussion away hence this new one) regarding the commonly known de-rating of dimmers for use with halogen lamps can anyone tell me why it is also neccessary to de-rate dimmer capacity for candle lamps against GLS/reflectors?
I can understand that the inrush currents for halogens when cold are far higher than that for GLS lamps, hence the de-rating, however what are the technical differences between a candle lamp and a similarly-rated GLS/reflector lamp? I had, clearly errouneously, assumed that the 'innards' were the same and that it was merely the shape of the bulb that was different?
Can anyone err... enlighten me? ;-)
Mathew