Melting osram CFL's

was googling cfl homemade light fixtures, came across this blog, im never buying an osram. Do these things have any failsafe's inside of the ballast? leave my lights unattended most of the day, i want to feel safe.

what blog?-

lots of cfl's running here. not too many melt down threads.

Feirefiz said:

was googling cfl homemade light fixtures, came across this blog, im never buying an osram. Do these things have any failsafe's inside of the ballast? leave my lights unattended most of the day, i want to feel safe.

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Wtf is an Osram? Can you be a little more clear about what you are talking about here? There's no ballast needed to run cfl's, you can screw them into any standard light socket unless you are using a large 100+ watt bulb/fixture.

rombomb420 said:

There's no ballast needed to run cfl's, you can screw them into any standard light socket unless you are using a large 100+ watt bulb/fixture.

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Courtesy of Wikipedia:CFL

wikipedia - CFL said:

Components, "CFLs have two main components: a gas-filled tube (also called bulb or burner) and a magnetic or electronic ballast."

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When cfl's fail it is mostly the ballast that fails an the bulb is still in workin condition. If you have a tesla coil or a van de graaf you can check this.