Shed light trips RCD - how to drain water in the lamp? (photo)

lol. how about getting the leak fixed and a light fitting a bit more suitable for the environment

 

Get an IP rated light fitting!

 

This has surely gotta be a wind up question yes ?

If not, your poor customer

 

You want to drain water out of a 50 pence light bulb. , you should be on telly, (Britian got talent)

 

What are you talking about Billy Bullsh*t (bongo)

Water in the bulb - impossible so that can't happen

Water in the light fitting - well firstly that's a ceiling rose so not really suitable to that environment is it . Water that has found it's way in will drip out due to a thing called gravity, helped by you unscrewing the cover

When you say "customer" that implies that you're a trades person of some kind and will be charging the customer for your services

Don't get me wrong, I'm just a diy'er but you asking this question .... Well that's just scary and you wouldn't be doing any work at my house

Have a nice day now and good luck

(It's gotta be a wind up ......pls say yes)

 

"Water in the bulb - impossible so that can't happen"
Do you guy's know nothing??? It's common knowledge that light bulbs have limited life. As anyone knows, heat converts oxygen into moisture. When all the oxygen in the bulb has been liquefied in this manner, it naturally quenches the element, thus the bulb fails. What you are looking at is electricity at work.
If you're not going to give sensible answers, why post anything at all?

That Friday feeling

 

Ok a sensible answer, buy a new.

 

My father-in law used to have a party trick. He would hold a fluorescent tube under water in a bowl and it would light! He always did it next to a mysterious closed box which was quietly humming, but there were absolutely no wires connected to the tube!

diymostthings

 

'Britains', I think, is what Phil, um, meant.

Mr. HandyAndy - Really

 

Being an electrician Billy, you should know the answer. But first get the roof fixed.

 

I think you maybe right,

Britains got no talent, here.

 

I thought lightbulbs were a vacuum. Therefore no oxygen. Or the filament would burn out to quick. Or am I being thick.

 

I have seen this a few times and my theory is that water runs down over the lamp whilst it's on and hot which causes the glass to crack so that the air which is being sucked into the vacuum pulls water in with in it. Is that all too logical an explanation do you all think?

 

What about a whipround lets get this chap illuminated once more I will go with phil the target for the fund is 50p

 

My pee is in the post.

 

Surely there is some kind of inert gas put inside the bulb during manufacture!

Mr. HandyAndy - Really

 

This could be the answer.