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Fun Stuff => Pictures & Jokes => Topic started by: Alianora La Canta on July 20, 2018, 04:48:12 PM
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It was the annual emergency light test at work today, which was duly announced on the message board.
Somebody immediately replied "Happy birthday!"
Someone else suggested getting the emergency light test a lightbulb for its birthday because it was dark.
This puzzled me. Every light was working earlier. Every socket that is meant to have a light has some sort of functional bulb in it. It's not clear what it would do with a bulb if it got one.
What do you get the emergency light test that has everything?
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Candles....just in case.....they could of course be birthday cake candles ;)
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How about a nice lamp shade, naked lights don't look very pretty now do they. :D
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Arrgh!! You plant bulbs in the ground; you are referring to lamps. Lamps not bulbs!!
:crazy: sorry, I've been a lighting engineer for over 30years ;)
By the way, the emergency lighting should be tested every month and the full duration (normally 3hours in the UK) should be checked once a year.
Every emergency light should operate during the monthly tests and should still be operating after 3 hours during the yearly test. The internal batteries normally only last about 4 years. These are life safety products and do not get sufficient routine maintenance. Lecture over.....
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https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/light-bulb
You guys call sidewalks “pavements”, so it appears you’ve confused some vocabulary while trapped on that little island. :tease: :tease:
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Hmmm. Do florescents and LEDs have filaments?
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Arrgh!! You plant bulbs in the ground; you are referring to lamps. Lamps not bulbs!!
:crazy: sorry, I've been a lighting engineer for over 30years ;)
By the way, the emergency lighting should be tested every month and the full duration (normally 3hours in the UK) should be checked once a year.
Every emergency light should operate during the monthly tests and should still be operating after 3 hours during the yearly test. The internal batteries normally only last about 4 years. These are life safety products and do not get sufficient routine maintenance. Lecture over.....
I worked in street lighting, only for 18 months I grant you in the 70s, and I can confirm that in the trade the actual lighting element was called lamp, it is held and powered by the lantern. Having said that mostly everyone I know in Britain in the public arena calls the lighting element a bulb (tube if its florescent) and the actual fitting/power part a lamp.
Unfortunately Monty the Vox pop has to take it. :tease:
Try shopping for a standard light element for your back bedroom in DIY warehouses and you will be directed to different areas if you ask for lamps instead of bulbs/tubes. :D
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A lamp by any other name is a bulb
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Accept it; you are just wrong! Tulips and daffodils come from bulbs; electric light comes from lamps.
Oh and while we are correcting 'fake news' it was Swan (British) that invented the electric lamp not that late-comer Edison!
My problem is that while I am trying to convince everyone that they should be fitting 'lamps' the technology is moving so fast that soon we will all be fitting 'LED light-engines' :'(
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Accept it; you are just wrong! Tulips and daffodils come from bulbs; electric light comes from lamps.
Oh and while we are correcting 'fake news' it was Swan (British) that invented the electric lamp not that late-comer Edison!
My problem is that while I am trying to convince everyone that they should be fitting 'lamps' the technology is moving so fast that soon we will all be fitting 'LED light-engines' :'(
:DD :DD
Nice try Monty but 99% of the population still thinks light bulb not lamp.
Returning to my Street lighting days we find more variance from the technical/proper names. The actual upright things that hold the Lanterns containing lamps in the air are called lighting columns/masts (formerly poles) in the trade, however all & sundry insist on calling them lampposts. :-*
Go figure????? :confused: ……. I know! - I know! :crazy: ;)
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By the way, the emergency lighting should be tested every month and the full duration (normally 3hours in the UK) should be checked once a year.
Every emergency light should operate during the monthly tests and should still be operating after 3 hours during the yearly test. The internal batteries normally only last about 4 years. These are life safety products and do not get sufficient routine maintenance. Lecture over.....
I believe this is exactly what work does, hence we have "the annual emergency light test". (The smaller ones aren't publicised because they happen when few people are in the building; it's open 24/7, but the annual test is always done when loads of people are around, and 30 min, 1 hr and 3 hr are separately tested on the same day, so has to be publicised).