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>PALM TREE-SHAPED CCFT BULB

Palm Tree-shaped CCFT Bulb, retail $ (URL not found; product is possibly discontinued)
Manufactured by Sunbeam (www.sunbeam.com)
Last updated 07-24-14

This unique lamp is a CCFT (Cold Cathode Fluorescent Tube) bulb equipped with a medium screw base (size E26) for use on 120 volts AC 60Hz "mains" power.

It is "unique" because it is in the shape of a tropical palm tree: the "fronds" ("leaves") glow bright green, and the "trunk" glows bright blue.

This bulb screws into any convenient 120 volts AC 60Hz female medium screw-base (E26 or even E27) light receptacle -- or even "light socket" if you prefer. I believe it is kosher to operate this lamp in any physical orientation (even upside-down), but it was meant to be operated base-down so that when you look at the bulb, it looks like a palm tree.

Size of product w/hand to show scale

SIZE

To use this bulb, just replace the old incandescent bulb in a household lamp or other light fixture with an E26 or E27 medium screw base with this bub.

The only warnings I have regarding its use are that it must ***NOT*** be used in a fixture controlled with a dimmer switch -- whether that dimmer is on the wall or in the fixture itself; and it must not be used in a fixture controlled by a photoelectric ("day/night") sensor. This bulb will rapidly (and possibly quite spectacularly) fail if this is done...you don't want baby brown recluse spiders or click beetle grubs (larvae)...I mean an UNWANTED FIRE!!!

This product is designed to be operated from "house current" (110 volts to 130 volts AC 60Hz with a sinusoidial waveform), not batteries of any type, so I do not have to tell you which part to remove, huck down the basement stairs into the room crawling with thousands of hungry piss ants, and then rather emphatically tell you not to.

This is a fluorescent light bulb, not a flashlight designed to be thrashed, trashed, and abused. So I won't throw it against the wall, stomp on it, try to drown it in the toylet bowl or the cistern, run over it, swing it against the concrete floor of a patio, use a small sledgehammer in order to bash it open to check it for candiosity

, fire it from the cannoñata

, drop it down the top of Mt. Erupto

(I guess I've been watching the TV program "Viva Piñata" too much again

- candiosity is usually checked with a laser-type device on a platform with a large readout (located at Piñata Central), with a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or with a pack-of-cards-sized device that Fergy Fudgehog uses; the cannoñata (also located at Piñata Central) is only used to shoot piñatas to piñata parties away from picturesque Piñata Island, and Mt. Erupto is an active volcano on Piñata Island {In the episode "Les Saves the Day...Again", Paulie Preztail says "Hey, ever wonder why this park's called 'Mount Erupto' anyway?", then Franklin Fizzlybear says "I think its an old native term. Means 'very safe.'"}), send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analysis, or inflict upon it punishments that a flashlight might have to have performed on it. So this section of the web page will be ***SIGNIFICANTLY*** more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight.

Photograph of the bulb, illuminated of course.

Spectrographic analysis of the green "fronds" of this bulb.

Spectrographic analysis of the blue "trunk" of this bulb.

Spectrographic analysis of the green "fronds" of this bulb; lamp allowed to "warm up" for >15 minutes.

Spectrographic analysis of the blue "trunk" of this bulb; lamp allowed to "warm up" for >15 minutes.

Spectrographic analysis of the green "fronds" of this bulb (newer spectrometer software settings used); lamp allowed to "warm up" for >15 minutes.

The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at http://ledmuseum.candlepower.us/46/palmtf.txt

Spectrographic analysis of the blue "trunk" of this bulb (newer spectrometer software settings used); lamp allowed to "warm up" for >15 minutes.

The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at http://ledmuseum.candlepower.us/46/palmtt.txt

USB2000 Spectrometer graciously donated by P.L.

TEST NOTES:
Test unit was sent by a fan of this website and was received on 11-25-06 (or "25 Nov. 2006" if you prefer).

UPDATE: 00-00-00

PROS:

CONS:

Sunbeam

Palm tree-shaped CCFT light bulb

CCFT

Toroidal; 360° X-axis, ~280° Y-axis

N/A

Plastic and glass

None

N/A

Unable to measure; stated as 100mA at 120VAC

Very light splatter-resistance at maximum

FOR GOD SAKES NOOOOO!!!

None

~80mm W x ~175mm H

Unknown/not equipped to weigh

Not stated

Unknown/not stated

Product has apparently been discontinued, so a "star" rating will not be furnished.

Palm Tree-shaped CCFT Bulb *

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