Monday, July 23, 2007
a minor irritation
The light in my bedroom no longer works between the hours of 5pm and 10pm which, interestingly, is just the time that one might want to turn on a light in one's room! I've been advised that every tube light in every home is like this, once it reaches a certain vintage. Apparently mine has already reached its life expectancy of one year and I should no longer expect to have light during these hours owing to low voltage. There is a solution, which is to turn on the tubelight religiously before 5pm and let it burn all night. This is not only inconvenient, but wasteful. I've been doing it, however, because I need light WHEN IT IS DARK OUTSIDE. However, tonight I made the mistake of accidentally turning it off when I left the room! FOOL! It's a habit to turn the light off when I leave the room, what can I say? So now I can forget reading in here tonight, etc. The tube lights in the rest of the house are still functional, but sitting in my "office" during the night hours means getting mauled by mosquitoes as there isn't a window but a hole in the wall. Furthermore it isn't exactly a posh room, containing nothing more than a plastic lawn chair and a small table. I think it might be time to invest in a new tube light perhaps.
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Re: DUMB people
As Banana tree, Tube lights are also used to refer dumb people, because of its nature of flickring before it glows, unlike the "Gundu" bulb (tradition yellow bulb).
Before you replace the tube light, try replacing the "choke", a small cylinderical thin on the tube light frame or if you bit more adventurous, switch the tube on and try rotating the tube light (at your own risk) :). It works most of the time.
having said that all, on either end of the tube if you see blackish inside the tube near the aluminium fitting, then its time to replace the tube light :)
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