I always wonder what makes things break. So, I very carefully took apart some CFL's that had failed after a year or two. They are sooooooo cheap inside!!! 2mm air gap between some of the traces and parts-NOT THAT GOOD!!!!! A 105C capacitor cooked . I even was playing around with my flyback transformer and a burned out cfl bulb, and I found that the plastic will burn! There are 250volt fim caps connected to live 120 volts, not a big safety margin!!! I even found some arcing marks on the bottom of a cfl circuit board. That same circuit board also had a burned out 10-ohm resistor. Black "green caps". WOW, yeah, I'd call CFL's dangerous!!! It is amazing how china gets away with selling this crap to the US! Fortunately, none of these cfl's have put up a nice show for us so far. I read on the internet about people having their's pop, smoke, and sparkle. Check out the pixs! I always would like to hear anybody else's stories of Cfl's going up in smoke! Oh, and all those bad headaches, skin and eye damage they give you!
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