Kinky curly save the world lightbulbs

[GoldenRivet]

My wife and i have been on a campaign to replace all the "kinky Curly" light bulbs throughout the house with LED bulbs for numerous reasons. but doing such a thing is fairly expensive, so we have been more or less doing one room at a time, waiting for our current "kinky Curly Al Gore Bulbs" as i call them to blow out one at a time.

In our bedroom, 1 bulb has given out.

In my office, 2 of the bulbs have blown out.

The plan is, once 3 of the 4 bulbs blow out in each fixture, leaving insufficient light for us - we will repalce those bulbs with either LEDs or the old fashioned incandescent bulbs (the "They aint broke so dont fix em bulbs" as i call them.)

So im sitting here drawing out a floor plan on google sketchup because its a tuesday afternoon and i really dont have anything better to do to be honest.

and im sitting here doing that for about an hour and i smell this funny smell. I recognize it as a bad thing and i start to think something is cooking in my PC so i quickly shut off the computer.

I get up to explore the house for any other possible culprit and i immediately notice a thin white haze clinging to the upper ceiling.

I shut the overhead light off and ventilated the room.

several minutes later, i turned the light back on, and the smell began to return. Problem identified... so, i took note of which bulbs were blown and removed the blown bulbs.

funny thing is, one of the blown bulbs despite being blown out for a few days now and not putting out ANY light... the plastic base was HOT - damned hot - and the point where the kinky curly tube enters this plastic base was discolored yellow/brown and bubbled / melted all around it. (keep in mind the bulb itself was cold)

apparently... despite this bulb being blown out for a few days now there was still some sort of electric current trying to run through the bulb.

I dont know if this is a known problem with these things? but be aware that just because the bulb is blown out doesnt mean power is not running through it.

(the other blown out bulb and it's plastic base were both stone cold.)






I hate those kinky curly SOBs