cheap flashlight catches fire (WTH?!! How can something as simple as a flashlight be screwed up this badly)
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From: Don Klipstein on 26 Oct 2009 15:56 In article <hc4k1j$ei6$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, RickMerrill wrote: >I'll bet it is a hallogen bulb: they can get VERY hot very quickly. > >That's how... It was said earlier in this thread that these are extremely cheap flashlights, 3 for a dollar IIRC. I doubt flashlights that cheap have halogen bulbs. It sounds to me like a short. - Don Klipstein (don(a)misty.com)
From: Rod Speed on 26 Oct 2009 16:30 RickMerrill wrote: > I'll bet it is a hallogen bulb: they can get VERY hot very quickly. > That's how... MUCH more likely it just shorted the battery.
From: Rod Speed on 27 Oct 2009 18:38 RickMerrill wrote > Rod Speed wrote >> RickMerrill wrote >>> I'll bet it is a halogen bulb: they can get VERY hot very quickly. >>> That's how... >> MUCH more likely it just shorted the battery. > Certainly possible In fact much more likely given that it was a very cheap torch. > but I do have a halogen bulb in a BIG lantern and even it gets pretty durn hot. You dont even know that his torch has a halogen bulb. In fact its unlikely that it does given that its a very cheap torch. > Obviously something in the OP's lamp was flamable, so the question is what-the-heck would the put in a flashlight that > could ignite You havent established that it did ignite. > and at what temperature would it flash? You havent established that it did flash.
From: Rod Speed on 28 Oct 2009 14:07
RickMerrill wrote > Rod Speed wrote >> RickMerrill wrote >>> Rod Speed wrote >>>> RickMerrill wrote >>>>> I'll bet it is a halogen bulb: they can get VERY hot very quickly. >>>>> That's how... >>>> MUCH more likely it just shorted the battery. >>> Certainly possible >> In fact much more likely given that it was a very cheap torch. >>> but I do have a halogen bulb in a BIG lantern and even it gets pretty durn hot. >> You dont even know that his torch has a halogen bulb. >> In fact its unlikely that it does given that its a very cheap torch. >>> Obviously something in the OP's lamp was flamable, so the question >>> is what-the-heck would the put in a flashlight that could ignite >> You havent established that it did ignite. >>> and at what temperature would it flash? >> You havent established that it did flash. > Would you settle for "catches fire"? Nar, only wimps do stuff like that. |