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Comment on E12, E14, SES, E17 – all fingers and thumbs by Piers

Piers — Fri, 07 May 2021 10:01:51 +0000

Thank you – very useful!

Comment on Easter Present – at least 10% off all Searchlight light fittings! by Andy

Andy — Sat, 13 Jul 2019 16:52:32 +0000

Just like to say thanks for fast delivery of replacement neon tubes for my kitchen units ( MGL226307) I had given up hope of finding these when I moved into this house last year, until I found your website. And, great value as well.

Many thanks.

Comment on Differences between halogen, cfl and led spot (e.g. GU10) bulbs by Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 05 May 2017 09:21:51 +0000

In reply to Anthea.

Hello,

It sounds as though the GU10 downlight units you have are like the long bodied versions that we stock – they also used to be supplied with a plastic ‘cage’ around the lamp holder to make it easier to install the longer old-style bulbs. The cage isn’t supplied any more as the long-bodied light bulbs are much less common now.

Presuming that the the cable on the lamp holder in the fitting is long enough to allow use of shorter, ‘regular’ size lamp, then I recommend simply removing the plastic cage. A good pair of scissors will do trick!

Comment on Differences between halogen, cfl and led spot (e.g. GU10) bulbs by Anthea

Anthea — Thu, 04 May 2017 16:09:13 +0000

My new house built 2010 has mostly 13w cfl gu10s but there is a black plastic cage bit that comes down over the bulb & encloses the gu10 socket so i can’t just put an ordinary led bulb in. what can i do?

Comment on E12, E14, SES, E17 – all fingers and thumbs by Rafael Merced Merced

Rafael Merced Merced — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 04:31:55 +0000

The light bulb challenge completely demystified for me. How come nobody ever explained this to me so clear? So simple is embarrassing! Thank you so much.

Comment on E12, E14, SES, E17 – all fingers and thumbs by Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 08:57:06 +0000

In reply to James. This sounds like an E12 bulb. Light bubs with an E12 screw cap are also sometimes 'candelabra bulbs', which would make sense based on your description.

Comment on Blow-up Santa! by Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 08:54:42 +0000

In reply to Nigel Wylie. In most cases, these types of bulb are wired up in parallel inside the tigger / santa etc. This means that if one bulbs fails the others will continue to work. In this case it sounds as though it could be the transformer that might have failed, which would cause non of the lights to work.

Comment on Differences between halogen, cfl and led spot (e.g. GU10) bulbs by Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 08:52:08 +0000

In reply to Kevin. Yes you should be able to - the only think that might cause problems is when you have low voltage bulbs (usually 12v) as you might also need to change the old transformers too. All 11w buls that wehave seen have been mains voltage though, so you should be fine.

Comment on Differences between halogen, cfl and led spot (e.g. GU10) bulbs by Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 20:37:41 +0000

In our new house we have lots of light holders in the bathrooms which are labeled as for 11W CFL. I assume we can replace with LED bulbs with no worries?

Comment on Blow-up Santa! by Nigel Wylie

Nigel Wylie — Fri, 18 Dec 2015 17:30:42 +0000

Hi just purchased 6 of these 24v 3w SES bulbs off you for my inflatable tigger but they do not work, they are the right voltage and wattage. Now I have tried replacing them I think there are 10 in the circuit, all 10 would not have to be workers with the element intact for these to work would they? Or do they usually have an internal fuse somewhere?
Thanks
Nigel