100w bulb into a 60w fitting

[TimmyP]

My mother. 92 and a bit senile has been putting 100w incandecent light bulbs into 60w fittings. After a few days the bulbs burn out. She asked where she was going wrong! As soon as she switched on the lights the bulb burned out and the switch in the fuse box switched to OFF and she replaced it with another 100w!. I replaced the 100w bulbs with 60w ones. How likely is it that she has done permanent damage to the light fitting and the electrics?

 

[pc1966]

Once I had a 500W photo-flood lamp that fitted a standard BC fitting so for a joke put it in a small room's light (no shade, would not fit) and was amazed by how bright the room was! Probably around 1980...

Alas, such lamps only has about 100 hour life as they ran the filament hot to get whiter lights!

 

[nicebutdim]

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Think I might have a box of these somewhere.

 

[DPG]

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My bulb's bigger than yours

 

[TimmyP]

Where did she get the 100W bulbs? They haven't been readily available for years.
I had a customer complaining of new bulbs with a very short life, and it turned out she had been sold 110V rough service bulbs intended for site use.
The answer is definitely to change to LED bulbs.

Hi Brian - the bulbs she used were from a company called Acorn Solutions (personally, never heard of them). 100w. Warm white 2800K. 1000 hr (that's a joke). Their HQ is in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Any expereince of Acorn Solution anyone?

 

[TimmyP]

Where did she get the 100W bulbs? They haven't been readily available for years.
I had a customer complaining of new bulbs with a very short life, and it turned out she had been sold 110V rough service bulbs intended for site use.
The answer is definitely to change to LED bulbs.

 

[DPG]

Hi Brian - the bulbs she used were from a company called Acorn Solutions (personally, never heard of them). 100w. Warm white 2800K. 1000 hr (that's a joke). Their HQ is in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Any expereince of Acorn Solution anyone?

I think that probably answers the question!

As above, get some good quality warm white LEDs in place.

And good luck to her - many more years to come hopefully, just with less lamp changing!

 

[pirate]

My neighbours know to come to me for their replacement filament bulbs. I have a couple of boxes of 60W and 100W...well, I did have,m but they are running out now due to high demand!
I also have a good supply of those long tubes for under-cabinet lights, in various sizes. One neighbour asked me to replace a couple of hers that had died...she had 11 of them daisy-chained under her wall units. As I attempted to take the old ones out, all the brown plastic end caps and the switches simply turned to dust and there was clear evidence of severe overheating everywhere in all the fittings. Fitted 3 Robus battens, which i rate quite highly, and all was better and brighter, with the option to switch between cool white and warm white.

 

[nicebutdim]

My neighbours know to come to me for their replacement filament bulbs. I have a couple of boxes of 60W and 100W...well, I did have,m but they are running out now due to high demand!
I also have a good supply of those long tubes for under-cabinet lights, in various sizes. One neighbour asked me to replace a couple of hers that had died...she had 11 of them daisy-chained under her wall units. As I attempted to take the old ones out, all the brown plastic end caps and the switches simply turned to dust and there was clear evidence of severe overheating everywhere in all the fittings. Fitted 3 Robus battens, which i rate quite highly, and all was better and brighter, with the option to switch between cool white and warm white.

I had a couple of people ask me about replacement tubes for undercabinet lights. In both instances the old fittings were in similarly poor condition and both families were delighted with the improved lighting from 4000k LED battens at minimal additional cost.

I can't conceive of paying the cost of illuminating rooms with 100W incandesent lamps, when previous objections to CFL lamps have been overcome with the advent of readily available, low cost LED replacements.

 

[brianmoooore]

Acorn Solutions appear to be a lamp supplier on Amazon. The reviews aren't brilliant, with a fair few complaints about short life.

 

[brianmoooore]

@pirate You'd be doing your neighbours a much greater service if you explained to them the advantages of LED replacement lamps, especially the GLS filament type.

P.S. Nice email this morning, informing me that I'm going to be charged 30p per unit of electricity soon.