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Although, depending on the manufacturer, economy lamps have a warranty of up to 3 years. But consumers may be faced with the fact that the light bulb has burned out, and you do not have the packaging, the purchase receipt, or the store has moved to another location, i.e., for some reason beyond your control, you cannot exchange the broken item. We decided to offer you to use an original solution for using burnt-out energy-saving lamps, which we found on the vast Internet resource and offer it to you.
 

Remember, you are putting your life in danger by being exposed to 220V voltage!


The easiest way is to throw it in the trash, but you can make… another one out of it, and if you have accumulated several burnt out lamps, then you can do…. repairs.

 
If you have held a soldering iron in your hands at least once, then this article is for you.

You can turn on a fluorescent lamp up to 30 Watt, without a starter and choke, using a small scarf removed from our economy lamp. At the same time, it will light up instantly; when the voltage drops, it will not ‘Blink’.

 
This lamp burns out in two ways:

1) electronic circuit is on


2) the filament burns out


First, let's find out what happened:

Here's the housekeeper. Using a screwdriver, pry it off in the places indicated by the arrows (assembled with latches)


You need to parse it like this:


Turn off the flask:



We bite off the power wires:


We call the glow of the flask (to decide whether to throw away the flask or not)



I was unlucky, both filament coils burned out (for the first time in my considerable practice, usually one, and when the circuit burns out, not even one). In general, if at least one burned out

We throw away the flask, if not, then it is working, but the circuit burned out.

 

We debug the working flask for storage (until the next burnt housekeeper) and then attach the flask to the working circuit. So out of several we make 1, or maybe more (depending on your luck).

And here is an option for making a fluorescent lamp. You can connect it like a 6-watt lamp from a “Chinese” lantern (for example, I wrapped it in plastic from a green bottle, and hid the circuit in a burnt-out charger from a mobile phone and it turned out to be a cool backlight for an aquarium):


and a 30 Watt fluorescent lamp:


Yeah, I’m not a writer…..but oh well.

Solder four wires (thick ones are not worth it):


which will be used for incandescence (immediately think about how and what will be mounted where),

and two to the power plug, connect the lamp:


... into the socket and lo and behold, it lights up


Try but be careful, the voltage is 220 volts DANGEROUS TO LIFE!!!


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Comments (17)
  1. Navernyak
    #1 Navernyak Guests 20 July 2010 23:16
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    who did it please unsubscribe
    1. Nail
      #2 Nail Guests 16 October 2018 23:28
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      I did it, it works. I have a small fluorescent lamp with a round scarf from a savings bank, and another design - an ultraviolet lamp (I use it to illuminate photoresist when making printed circuit boards)
  2. SVL
    #3 SVL Guests 26 October 2010 18:08
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    I haven’t tried searching, but everything written will work correctly.
  3. Ni1lay
    #4 Ni1lay Guests 20 January 2012 20:18
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    Made From!5 (15*5=75) cotton economy. I light forehead 36 (old forty) From half a thousand From 11 (11*5=55) cotton economy. 20ka lights up perfectly..Photo 20. true from the workplace.
  4. NOTFRONT
    #5 NOTFRONT Guests 20 January 2012 20:19
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    super! Well done!
  5. Ni1lay
    #6 Ni1lay Guests 20 January 2012 21:16
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    The lamps can be “made” like the author’s, or they can be made with original sockets and placed like candles. Vertically. True, two wires will go into the circuit parallel to the lamp from the far end.....But with a socket. type "CANDLES" I think would be more suitable "for JOKES" or for corners in the room... smile
    1. Sanya
      #7 Sanya Guests 31 July 2019 18:51
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      ???
  6. Babai
    #8 Babai Guests 24 June 2012 19:06
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    Ni1lay,
    Yes THIS IS A JEDI SWORD!!! but seriously it's pretty cool
  7. osyka59
    #9 osyka59 Guests 29 October 2012 13:09
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    sorry for the quality, filmed on mobile

    I made 30 watts on this one

  8. Grysha
    #10 Grysha Guests 15 February 2014 20:07
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    If you don't mind the money, then you can do it. The internal and spiral resistance is very different between tubes and housekeepers. Therefore, the cathodes very quickly lose emission, or even burn out altogether.Verified. I don’t recommend doing it stupidly. We need a recount.
  9. Oleg
    #11 Oleg Guests 3 February 2015 15:53
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    I’ve known this for a long time and not only this is possible
  10. Dimka
    #12 Dimka Guests 11 February 2016 13:03
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    People, please tell me whether the ballast from a 15-watt energy saver (TechnoLight) with 4202BD transistors can withstand a 21-watt lamp? (transistors according to the datasheet up to 20W
    1. Guest Alexander
      #13 Guest Alexander Guests 11 June 2019 16:04
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      Dima, the point is not so much in the rated power of the transistor, but in its operating mode... converters use a pulse mode, i.e. class D, where the efficiency can exceed 90%... the power dissipated by the transistor will depend on its internal resistance in the open state, the steepness of the pulses and the duty cycle... In any case, at the load we will receive a power several times greater than what the transistors dissipate. ..

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