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Sat, Jan 2, 10 at 16:15
| My wife just placed about twenty five crystals on our five bulb fixture over the dining table. The crystals are attached to little magnets, about half the size of a dime and about 3/8ths of an inch thick. When she turned on the fixture, three bulbs simultaneously burned out. Coincidence or take the crystals off the fixture?
Thanks! Rob |
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- Posted by weed_cutter (My Page) on Sat, Jan 2, 10 at 16:44
| They don't call it electro-magnetism for nothing, but in your case it's coincidence. |
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| Changing magnetic fields induce current in conductors, static fields do not. Unless you have a way to move the magnets and the wire is in their field it is coincidence. Most likely caused by moving the fixture to attach the crystals. |
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| Probably not entirely a coincidence. The odds are that the lamps may have been in there a while, add in some jostling and shaking of the fixture while the crystals were installed. Lamp filaments are fragile. It doesn't surprise me that a couple lamps burned out actually. |
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