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RE: Nasty Burn or worse?

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Posted by: FR at Mon Nov 5 16:32:18 2007   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by FR ]  
   

If your monitors healthy, then they heal better if left to themselves. Vets and all their stuff sometimes make it worse(all their scrapping and such.

I have had burns from those bulbs I mentioned that were up to 1/4 the dorsal area of the monitor and healed without problem.

But it will never look the same. It will leave a scar.

Those bulbs from PE are the better ones, but are still dangerous. I should know, I am the one who turned PE and others on to halogen for monitors.

The deal is this, 45 watt halogens put out the most useable heat for the electricity used OF ANY BULB OUT THERE. But that also means they put out lots of heat. Which means burns can happen. Since I switched to incandesent bulbs, I have NEVER had another burn on a monitor. EVEN IF THEY SIT ON THEM. But, they use more electricity per amount of heat produced. So its up to you.

If used properly, those bulbs from PE are great, but I just got tired of burned monitors, so I switched to a crappier bulb(and way cheaper)

The other problem with those halogen bulbs are, they are CHEAP CHEAP, a little tap on the cage and the bulbs go out. Or a power outage and out they go. And they are expensive to replace. Of course, if you have hundreds of bulbs like I do, I think about such thing, but if you have a couple bulbs, its should not be a concern. Cheers


   

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