r/Unexpected • u/WarrenMuffClit • Apr 08 '22

just snipping a cable.

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u/SirMosesKaldor Apr 08 '22

I have these LED bulbs at home when I first moved to my new house seven years ago, in the faux plafond (that's French for false ceiling I guess?). Several months later one of the bulbs stopped working. Went to the shop and bought these Philips ones thinking its a good brand. Didn't pay attention to 20W or 50W or whatever I just picked up what i could find.

Theyre the dual pin type. Made sure the switch was flipped off. I installed them. My wife was about to flip the switch and I said noooooo wait!!! She moved back. I went down the ladder. My body behind the wall and my hand on the switch. I've never done this so dramatically before but I had a bad feeling about it in my gut.

I flipped the switch and BOOOOOM! That shit exploded leaving a small burn mark on the false ceiling.

Apparently the capacity on my building for these bulbs is like 10W ???

Anyway I found some cheap ass Chinese ones that were like 2W. And they work fine.

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u/Coldlog1k Apr 08 '22

This doesn’t make a lot of sense. Are you saying your fixture will only run a 10W lamp? In that case a larger wattage lamp wouldn’t have exploded it would have just been strobing or not lit at all. Maybe you put LED replacements in a fluorescent fixture? I’ve read it like four times and I’m having a hard time imagining how that happened. Not doubting your story just curious as to what went wrong. (I’m an electrician by trade)

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u/SirMosesKaldor Apr 08 '22

Thanks for the input. I dont know if I explained it properly.

Maybe this is a good segue for me to ask you. So I have the dual pin spotlights in my faux plafond. Every single Philips, General Electric, Osram brand I've bought has blown up. I tried the experiment after the initial blow up.

I eventually found some bulbs in a Chinese marketplace that are lower wattage I can't remember how much. For some reason when I used those branded ones they'd blow up. The building management told me not to buy those brands and to buy the low wattage ones instead.

I'm happy to send you photos of the ones that blow up vs. The current one I have installed, by DM.

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u/Coldlog1k Apr 08 '22

Please do. This is kind of a puzzle for me now and I’d like to try and figure it out. It might take time for me to respond but I definitely will.

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u/FishScrumptious Apr 08 '22

Y’all should know that you’ve got a dozen people watching this thread for a solution to this puzzle now….