crazy lightbulb!

[mentality]

oh mi god. Was just sat drying my hair in my bedroom when lightbulb literally exploded above me and shattered into loadsa little pieces!! Just missed me, though the bulb was hot and caught my leg a bit. Can anyone explain this atall please, never known this to happen

[mentality]

Thanks once again. It really scared me!

[mentality]

was sittin on my bed like i always do, so wouldn,t think it was that close! Is quite a high ceiling, but I,ll bear it in mind!"

[Ice.Maiden]

Sounds like a coincidence hun - unless you were just using a lot of electrical things at once, and the system was over-loaded?

[dabees]

Firstly. what kind of bulb was it? Incandescent or CFL (Compact Florescent Light)? It could be down to a manufacturing flaw or some Incandesants have been known to shatter at the end of their lives.

They tend to burn brighter and hotter at the end of their life, and sometimes hot enough to shatter the glass (Quartz).

If it was a CFL, watch out for the glass piercing your skin, as they contain mercury.

Overload of a circuit is very unlikely, but a surge in supply can cause blowouts, the older the bulb, the more likely the fault.

[legendis.god]

Whilstb drying your hair did any water shake off of your hair and hit the hot lightbulb?
Possibly the temperature change caused by that could have cased the bulb to shatter from rapid cooling




Its an idea innit ?

[Ice.Maiden]

That's a very good answer dabees.

[legendis.god]

It could have been sabotaged by someone in the next cell with a grudge against you?


Oh sorry that was chris rock in the mean machine.


My mistake : 0)

[filthiestfis]

What are you alluding to? That this was some kind of poltergeist activity?

[heathfield]

I've known this to happen with tungsten bulbs, but rarely. That it doesn't happen more often is quite surprising when you consider that the glass and the metal cap expand through heating by different amounts, putting the glass under quite a strain.