How to repair a burned out energy-saving lamp

Did the house lamp burn out? The easiest way is to throw it in the trash, but you can make it ... another, and if there are several lamps burned out, then you can do it .... by repair.

If you held at least once soldering iron in hand, then this article is for you.

You can turn on the fluorescent lamp up to 30 watts, without a starter and throttle, using a small scarf removed from our economy lamp. At the same time, it will light up instantly, with a decrease in voltage it will not ‘Blink’.

This lamp burns out in two ways:

1) the electronic circuit is on

2) the glow plug burns out

First, find out what happened: Here's the housekeeper. Prying a screwdriver in places indicated by arrows (assembled on latches)

It is necessary to disassemble it like this:

Turn off the flask:

We bite off the power wires. We call the flames (to decide whether to throw the flask or not)

I was unlucky, both filaments burned out (for the first time in my considerable practice, usually one, but not one when the circuit burns down). In general, if at least one burned out flask is thrown away, if not, then it is working, and the circuit burned out.

We debug the working flask for storage (until the next burned-out housekeeper) and then we hook the flask to the working scheme. So we make 1 out of several, and maybe more (as luck would have it).

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

and 30 Watt fluorescent lamp:

Yeah, the writer is with me ... .. oh well.

Solder four wires (thick is not worth it):

which will go to the heat (immediately think about how and what will be mounted where),

and two on the mains plug, connect the lamp:

... to the power outlet and it’s on

Try but carefully the voltage of 220 volts. DANGEROUS FOR LIFE !!!

Practical Electrical Engineering and Electronics