Here in the UK many of the desk lamps I can buy nowadays take a bulb with an Ediscon Screw fitting. Also many wall lights for outdoor use (sometimes with a PIR detector) take an ES fitting bulb.Until recently all I ever needed for a general purpose light bulb was a bayonet fitting. Now ES fittings seem to be appearing! Pictures: there a particular advantage of the ES fitting over the bayonet fitting in these sorts of applications?

No. There are several significant disadvantages to ES bulbs over BC(polarity reversal safety and the bulbs stick, meaning you sometimes need toreplace the entire fitting, not just the bulb).They are becoming more common simply because some markets do not have goodavailability of BC bulbs and they only want to produce one version of theirproduct.Christian.

UK question: ES light bulb better than bayonet?

Nov 25, 2005 43 Replies

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The Natural Philosopher 20 years ago

I dinno. Ive had tow cheapo bayinets disnitegeate on me this month. Would raher have had screws...

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Gavin Parsons 20 years ago

Correct, my mistake thats what you get for using memory and not the regs

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Alex 20 years ago

You'll note that the message was posted to three groups, so we have no way of telling which you are referring to :)

alex

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Michael A. Terrell 20 years ago

And then you had to explain what a "Wobbulator" was. Were you building a sweep generator, or just jamming the TV channels? Sigh, using a varicap just isn't as much fun, is it? ;-)

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