Exploding mercury lamps

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silverliner
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European electrical regulations are way better than US regulations! The wiring used for street lighting relies on grounding (or earthing in your language;-)) which is often flawed because sometimes the high resistance in the dirt does not absorb the current in the pole in case of an electrical leakage. A number of people are killed by electricifed light poles every year, sadly. And nope, fuses are not required for light poles.

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TudorWhiz
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Hey let me know if the kids gets in trouble if you tell the school ;-) maybe they should pay for the bulb! hmmmm did you get what they looked like? then you could tell the school who it was! Let us know if they get shaken! LOL

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dp
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The light got fixed today, and guess what the replacement lamp is....(drum roll).............Compact fluoresent ES base!The mercury ballast failed and so we removed it and just connected the supply straight to the lampholder and fitted a 150w GLS equivalent warm white OSRAM dulux! That was a bolt from the blue! It works really well, though. Now here's an idea, any mercurl lights over here needing a new lamp will have a cool white compact fluorescent fitted.

Oh yeah, I told the school and they have apparently got the police. I hope they won't come to the door asking questions as I am a shy person!

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TudorWhiz
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YAY....tell me what happens to the kids....hope they go on the newspaper telling the story....people who breaks streetlight deserves to be embarrassed!

Let us know what happens...give us updates!

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dp
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Ok, will do. I also hope it will be in the local newspaper. Or even the newspaper for the whole world! If it is in thew newspaper anyway, I will scan them and upload it here.

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make sure its in the newspaper ;-) make a BIG DEAL OUTTA IT LOL......

hmph kids will be kids........I just turned 23 two days ago and sometimes I feel like a kid myself.....

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mr_big
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I still feel like a kid sometimes but yeah scan the newspaper and well see who they are BTW maybe the mercury lamp exploding had something to do with the ballast failing when it was being shaken

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dp
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Also I have read in the safety instructions of a new mercury lamp that a failing ballast if it gets shorted will make the lamp explode so that might be why it could have possibly shorted while it was being shaken

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mr_big
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If you want to know what the lantern looks like, then click on this link to this enthusiast's site:

http://www.freewebs.com/plymouthlighting/gec_z5672.htm

It is a nice lantern isn't it. These ones are common.

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mr_big
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