Lamp or bulb wire or cable?

[Barry White]

The topics comes up often so whats your views? and does it bother you?

1 Go into any electrical wholesalers and look in the "lights section" and you will find the following labeled as lamps :-- Incandesent,Hid,Led,Flouresent and Luminaire [FONT=arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif](the latter is harder to spell so not often used)
[/FONT]Not seen bulb written on the packaging.
2 What did Thomas Edison invent? The first comercial light bulb

Cambridge dictionary definitions Light bulb a ​rounded ​glass ​container with a ​thin ​thread of ​metal inside that ​produces ​light when an ​electric ​current goes through it

Lamp a ​device for giving ​light, ​especially one that has a ​coveringor is ​contained within something:

Just hoping nobody mentions globes or even "Bubbles" Shhhhhh


Wires or cables ? well I think a wire is a single and a cable is made up of a group of wires.

Machine drawings have wiring diagrams not cableing diagrams unless you know better?

I am easy with both representations.

 

[YoungBart]

If I ever said Bulb at work my Boss (who wired the arc) would always said 'I don't pay you for gardening' Which I thought was very annoying, Now if anyone says Can you sort my bulb out I say 'I'll just get my Wellies and Fork' because I'm just that funny...
I also remember getting told at college that live conductors should be called line conductors, So I went to work the next day, said something about switched lines and permanent lines only to be told 'I don't pay you to work on railways'...

 

[davesparks]

Anyone who works in theatrical lighting will be able to confirm that it is neither bulb, nor lamp, the correct term is 'bubble'

 

[Barry White]

Anyone who works in theatrical lighting will be able to confirm that it is neither bulb, nor lamp, the correct term is 'bubble'

Did put Bubble or globe in my first post Dave and knowing you do a bit in theatrical lighting expected it (only heard of it once) and said "whats a bubble" and got laughed at before being told.Really thought it was a joke like the spirit level one.

 

[VoltzElectrical]

A couple of years ago I spent 5 days on a yacht doing my 'Competent'Crew' RYA course. I mistakenly called the chart a 'map' and was put straight. On the final night we planned a night passage and started out, looking all the time for the different navigational lights plotted on our plan. We all fell into using the term 'map' in our mild anxiety and efforts not to crash or veer off course.

When we were safely tied up in port, the skipper/ examiner told us he had been below decks listening and eating his fist but didn't say anything at the time because getting the job done was more important than using none nautical terminology. Made me laugh though picturing him.

 

[Adam W]

A couple of years ago I spent 5 days on a yacht doing my 'Competent'Crew' RYA course. I mistakenly called the chart a 'map' and was put straight. On the final night we planned a night passage and started out, looking all the time for the different navigational lights plotted on our plan. We all fell into using the term 'map' in our mild anxiety and efforts not to crash or veer off course.

When we were safely tied up in port, the skipper/ examiner told us he had been below decks listening and eating his fist but didn't say anything at the time because getting the job done was more important than using none nautical terminology. Made me laugh though picturing him.

Boaty people are the worst for insisting you use their pedantic terminology - "It's not a wall it's a bulkhead. It's not a window it's a porthole. It's not a kitchen it's a galley. It's not a room it's a compartment. It's not a bog it's a head...."
Of course me being me I go out of my way to use the layman's terminology just to wind them up.

 

[7029 dave]

I've got a bit of a 42 footer down at Chichester myself.

 

[ruston]

I've got a bit of a 42 footer down at Chichester myself.

Where is the other bit?:stooge_curly:

 

[7029 dave]

Where is the other bit?

On me mantel piece. :stooge_curly:

 

[VoltzElectrical]

I've got a bit of a 42 footer down at Chichester myself.

if you ever need crew.. i mean staff.... i mean labourers... i mean deck hands..... i mean...
what do i mean?

 

[DPG]

I've got a bit of a 42 footer down at Chichester myself.

Is that a Harry Enfield line? Daz

 

[7029 dave]

Is that a Harry Enfield line? Daz

Yes it is Daz, ha ha Tim but dim.