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> This USA home owner did not do anything silly or wrong here.
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> There is simply NO SAFETY warning, anywhere AT ALL to suggest a CFL
> might burn your home to the ground - maybe several years after you install
> it.
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> The lack of compulsory fire safety standards for CFL is an outrage - as is
> their inherent incompatibility with so many fittings and housings.
It would be covered in the USA by UL standards.
If cheapskate importers choose to sell unapproved CFLs then THEY should pay the bill. And be prosecuted and if necessary placed in insolvency and completely shut down.
OTOF the twit who buys a CFL without a valid safety mark can expect what he gets.
Increasingly. and especially in the EU, IEC standards for electrical safety should make such problems extinct.
Graham