01-03-12, 04:05 PM
The idea was to prevent people using ordinary incandescent bulbs, so they came up with this 3-pin design that wouldn't accept the old style bulbs. As green initiatives go it was impressively stupid: the market is awash with subsidised 2-pin energy efficient bulbs, yet the building regulations for new-builds mean you're expected to buy these hard-to-find expensive ones.
It's an easy DIY job to replace most of them with normal 2-pin sockets and it works out far cheaper than replacing dead lamps with 3-pin ones... so all those 3-pin sockets end up in landfill. How green is that?
It's an easy DIY job to replace most of them with normal 2-pin sockets and it works out far cheaper than replacing dead lamps with 3-pin ones... so all those 3-pin sockets end up in landfill. How green is that?