Who writes these things?
Oct. 9th, 2009 04:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
milktreeYesterday I bought a lamp. It came with this maximum wattage warning on it.
Now, maybe I'm missing some very important thing here, but... um... watts are watts, and power consumption (which is what watts is) has nothing to do with light output.
Wattage warnings on electrical lamps or fixtures are there to prevent two things:
1) the wires feeding the lamp getting too hot and catching fire, and
2) heat from the bulb itself building up and causing a fire.
So why the hell would there be different wattage limits for conventional and compact fluorescent bulbs?
Are they afraid that if someone put three 100 watt CF bulbs in this fixture they'd go blind?
Now, maybe I'm missing some very important thing here, but... um... watts are watts, and power consumption (which is what watts is) has nothing to do with light output.
Wattage warnings on electrical lamps or fixtures are there to prevent two things:
1) the wires feeding the lamp getting too hot and catching fire, and
2) heat from the bulb itself building up and causing a fire.
So why the hell would there be different wattage limits for conventional and compact fluorescent bulbs?
Are they afraid that if someone put three 100 watt CF bulbs in this fixture they'd go blind?
