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[Lou]

Welcome, did you find the answers you were looking for?

 

[James]

I remember once when I was only knee-high to a grasshopper...
The fridge in the kitchen didn’t have a light in the socket, and as my age was still only in single digits at the time, I didn’t know what the gold coloured round things in the round black thing were.
It was only after I touched them that I realised what it was...

WHY do people take bulbs out without putting a new one in?
Also, now days electrical terminals are supposed to be touch proof and any enclosure with live terminals has to be accessible using either a special tool or key. how come the original Edison screw and bayonet connect lamp holders are still being manufactured and sold?

 

[static zap]

WHY do people take bulbs out without putting a new one in?...

The answer ,is frugality.
The old "lamp" went off with such a bang ... They are sure it will do harm if left in place,
(or do a double take -which they are not going to try)

 

[Pete999]

WHY do people take bulbs out without putting a new one in?
Also, now days electrical terminals are supposed to be touch proof and any enclosure with live terminals has to be accessible using either a special tool or key. how come the original Edison screw and bayonet connect lamp holders are still being manufactured and sold?

Probably because the ES lamps were made before that ruling came about.

 

[Gary Tollison]

Maybe I should have mentioned that this happened sometime in 1980-ish, and not in England either, so apologies if this ruffled any feathers of the regulations experts