KyleFowler
Member
- Location
- Maryville, TN
- Occupation
- Electrician
We did a job replacing some Metal Halide bulbs in decorative pole lights with LED corncobs. The problem is that in a year or so the bulbs work loose and burn up themselves and the socket (the voltage is 277v and the sockets are base down). We think the problem is that the heavier corncobs are slowly working loose when the poles wiggle in the wind? Lol. Replacing the sockets isn't helping. I also think that since the corncobs run cooler they aren't getting "fused" in the sockets like metal halides tend to.
I did a search of this forum to see if anyone else has had this problem and didn't find anything. The safest solution I read on Google seemed to be to try steel wool to rough the bulb threads up a bit. Anybody have other ideas?
I did a search of this forum to see if anyone else has had this problem and didn't find anything. The safest solution I read on Google seemed to be to try steel wool to rough the bulb threads up a bit. Anybody have other ideas?