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Originally Posted by dilligaf1701
I had one of these in the computer room and at one end of the living room.
Now each time one of these bulbs has blown it has blown with some force. In fact usually seperating the bulb from the metal part you fit into the socket.
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It's typically the bulb, not the fixture. Poor quality, off-brand bulbs are prone to failing in a spectacular fashion. It has something to do with the way they handle the surge of power that occurs at the moment of filament failure.
Though having overly high voltage in your home (you can find this out from your power company) can cause premature burnouts in bulbs, if the problem is localized to a specific type of bulb in a specific fixture it's even more likely to be the bulb HTH
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Originally Posted by Aragorn
Every time a bulb goes in my house it trips the fuse for that circuit ! Probably should get a sparky to check it out, but never got round to it yet.
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Caused by the way the filament breaks, sometimes arcing out the line and neautral poles and therefore creating a dead short and / or overloading the circuit