There is little you can do once you have done this - if you were at school or work you should tell your boss and fill in the accident book.
Fluorescent bulbs contain phosphorous and Mercury both of which ar poisonous, particularly the mercury. Old bulbs need to be taken UNBROKEN to a recycling plant to be safely disposed of.
The correct voltage should be printed on the light bulb.
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Fluorescent is more efficient. Incandescent bulbs should not be used any more, except for some special purposes (mainly where they keep something warm).
EEdmund Germer (90% sure) made the first fluorescent light bulb
The voltage present on the secondary side of the ballast (transformer) varies as to the type of fluorescent tube or bulb that is in the fixture. The voltage will always be higher that the applied line voltage that supplies the ballast.If the fluorescent bulb screws into a lamp type of fixture, then there is no way to measure the voltage at the bulb as the tube and ballast are a combined sealed unit.
when the tube ends blacken after failure of the tube heaters
A fluorescent bulb
fluorescent light bulbs are usually from 9$-15$.
No, the ballast's output is not matched to operate a fluorescent bulb.
No, a fluorescent bulb does not emit the same amount of heat as a metal halide bulb of the same wattage.
Perhaps you are asking about fluorescent lamp. This is an electrical device that uses a fluorescent bulb to give off light. The bulb is a recent invention designed to give energy savings in the residential area. The fluorescent bulb used to be used exclusively in industrial applications, but the new bulb is small and compact enough to be used in a home lamp.
The brightest compact fluorescent bulb is of over 100 lumens or higher outputs at higher drive currents.