The wiring should be in tact. Fluorescent lamps don't usually get all that hot, the lamps you are speaking of do have ballast built into them so a fault might generate a lot of heat but it usually does not.
Nevertheless I would not likely handle any wiring near a suspect fixture without breaking the circuit. After all why are you inspecting it if you don't expect to find a fault? Finding that fault because it is energized would be, at best, very unpleasant. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert J. Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 3:11 PM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] Over head lights and switches/outlets > Clifford > my question about the over head light has more to do with the wires > coming > to the light ficture itself.. I had some of those spiral type long lasting > florsent bulbs that had attracted a lot of ladie bugs. 2 of them were > burned > out when I checked it out. What had happend was I smelled what I thought > smelled like a curling iron and after sniffing around for a while I was in > the kitchen and I heard what sounded like a terible short from the light. > I > turned off the switch and let things cool down because although not to hot > to touch it was warm. Well any way with the switch off and the braker > still > on I checked out the wires and did not get a shock. My wife thinks that if > the wires had been bare from the insalation being burned off I would have > gotten a shock. > So is she correct > Also When those type of bulbs go bad do they tend to go out kicking and > screeming like that. Or do I more likely have a problem. > > Against my better judgment I did turn on that light after taking out the 2 > bad bulbs and leaving in the 2 good bulbs and a lot of hounding from my > wife that we should try it and see what happens. > As far as I can tell the wires still look good. > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://acbradio.org/handyman.html > or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. > http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml > > Visit the new archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man > list just send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.22/590 - Release Date: > 16/12/2006 > > To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
