| Re: new megaray smells funny?
Posted by roger  on 11/3/2009, 4:56 pm, in reply to "new megaray smells funny?"
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This is the most likely scenario: the brand-new lamp is heating minute amounts of plastic that are adhering to the top of the threads at the base where the metal and the glass join, plus just general dust and finger-oils that we can't see on the bulbs. If that is so, it really does stink, but it goes away in just several hours at the most. I would not leave a smelly bulb unsupervised. You should start an electric range sometime. After the installation, I always turn on the oven and all the burners to see if the breaker holds, and to see if everything works. The "new installation" smell that comes off of those can be startling.
Ummm...if the socket has not had lamps of the same wattage as this one, it could possibly smoking the socket, if it's not ceramic. Plastic sockets do have a relatively short lifetime if they get bulbs that are close to the maximum. IMO 100 watts is too hot for plastic sockets. But I'm not saying your SB is 100 watts, I was just making a general statement. My plastic sockets crack and fall apart in about six months because I usually am using 100 watt bulbs.
Roger
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