Alright...I learned the hard way of this rule a couple of hours ago, after going through my 3rd Bulb, I finally figured out why they kept burning out......


Next time....I'll wear some gloves...you can actually see my finger print....in-bedded into it now



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wow lol yea a good tip for anyone who hasnt learned the hard way

 

yeah you arent supposed to touch the bulb

 

Yea, hopefully this post will remind people not to touch the bulbs....

 

lmao! holy crap...wow...
comeon motley u cant touch the bulb! or the greese will make it blow!

o wait now u know that lmao..its all good guy..but i didnt know that itd be that bad...are our fingers really that strong?

 

Apparentely so man, I've gone through three in less than a month.

 

STAY away from HID'S

 

I don't know that it would really affect a HID bulb as much as a, OEM, bulb that has a filiment. HID lights don't use a filiment to produce light. But still good idea not to touch the bulb. I never touch the bulb though, so no worries for me.

 

OH BRO I FORGOT TO TELL YOU!! Dont toouch that...

 

Yes, the oil on your fingers stays on the bulb and act as a prism to magnify the intensity of the light where your fingers touched the bulb - much in the same way a magnifying glass does with sunlight.

If you touch the bulb on accident, all you have to do it take a cotton ball and some rubbing alcohol and wipe it down clean.

 

^^ uhh... no?

the heat just gets concentrated more on that spot.. thus failure.

most bulbs have a warning on the box or package about not touching them....

 

Yup.

Oil, dirt and biological debris get deposited on the quartz bulb, burn from the intense
heat and light from the filament and turn dark, which absorbs even more heat on the quartz
envelope and causes failure.

Headlight bulbs, projector bulbs, quartz halogen general lighting bulbs, any and all theatrical,
TV, and movie spot and flood bulbs, and all arc type bulbs have this weakness.

All carry the warning to not touch the "glass" - even the fish bowl size beacon lamps on radio
and tv towers (quite expensive) have to be very clean when installed, or you will be climbing
that tower again very soon with a new bulb in your backpack and and very angry station
manager grumbling below you (been there).

Just in case no one's heard yet, DON'T TOUCH THE CLEAR PART OF THE BULB, and if you get
even a fleck of anything on it, clean it before powering it up.

(Good pic, BTW, but, uh, kinda TOO BIG.)

Tom

 

If you turn your head to the right and look at the burnt bulb, it looks like a mad skull. Heck, may even look like Jesus! Sell it on eBay!!

 

(The Terminator maybe... )

 

Yea...like a magnifying glass concentrates heat on one spot. Sorry. Guess I didn't explain that very well. We have the same concept.

Either way: rubbing alcohol is the solution!

 

umm... NOT like a magnifying glass... whatever..

 

^-^ LoL

 

lol. sorry i just found it funny.. because it seems like you just realized that. i know it says on the packaging not to touch it.

 

No I knew already, it's just that I have butter Fingers....can't help it.....