Sorry but if if you removed a lamp and noted a bad lamp due to pins on it, why did you install a perfectly good lamp into the same
fixture?
Just an education
point in saving money in that you have hope given you noted a problem.
Lamp pins looking bad reflect the
socket just as bad. Don't install a perfectly good lamp into a bad
socket and if you do don't ever use it again unless you clean it for the arching that will be done.
Bad sockets are one thing in noting - like a virous once you replace the lamp
socket but don't really - really clean the lamp in if "saving" it for use on another or even the same
fixture.
Look at this concept as per a virous. Seen one case - possibly more. More than that don't trade the lamps or even re-install them short of treatment if even viable to do so. No trading of lamps between fixtures - ever short of cleaning, and no expectation of putting a perfectly good lamp into a perfectly bad
socket will result in a even less lamp life of the one replaced.
Been
thru this before... from a lamp buyer or manager standpoint in workable way with the tech person (the ones that note such things and care in general.) At times you gotta get the
fixture working again by show time and installing a new lamp is the best option. Swapping lamps between fixtures even if going for the "known" working is mostly not the best option. Put a new sucker into the
fixture but
mark that
fixture so by the next show it's replaced and or worked on.
Fair enough I think in getting a show up and running, yet not at times in the lamps I mostly deal with - a day wage for one of the crew in price - each time a perfectly good lamp is installed into a perfectly bad socet. That or in lamp to
fixture swapping that causes endless problems also. Yes, Known working lamps is good to try for some fixtures and appropriate, but don't leave them in the
fixture. This especially for
incandescent or less expensive arc light sources. Otherwise for the high priced lamps, the new lamp has already been pre-tested and will work as well as a different
fixture lamp. Only screws up another
socket as a concept on show site when problems.
Hope it helps in some
broad problems but basic guidelines for controlling a virus as I often see it as. Often
track lamps changed on-site moving light lamps down by how many less hundred hours the lamps were able to be used until final melt down. This by crew or on-site labor even "Ronald McDonald" changing the lamps but not getting the above concepts. What caused the lamp to fail to why did it go bad often isn't often a concept in just changing it.
What caused it to go bad from lamp hours
thru bad
socket often is the problem. Over expected lamp life hours often another factor in modern burning hotter lamps.
Many at least movers expect a lamp life of 750 hours. Short of that, be concerned as to the cause of failure LEER. Longer of that lamp life be suspicious of the
socket even if the lamp died a well "snowball" life in going dim.
Stuff like that. If only I could save various crews from installing perfectly good lamps a multitude of times into the same fixtures that have bad lamp sockets for the same reasons and with reduced hours I
track.... Might have another assistant or two in helping me fix or
build show gear. And or afford more people on-site were it not just a lamp to a mover (day wage for each on site on average) say one less person on-site that just installed a perfectly good lamp into a perfectly bad
socket.
Again, good your noting of this - you have ability to train and or do your job as opposed to perhaps most that would note perhaps but mostly not question what you saw.
