From: James Sentman <james-AT-sentman.com>
Date: 07 May 2008 06:24:53 UTC   (10:24:53 AM in author's locale)
To: xtensionlist-AT-shed.com

Just thought I'd pass this along today:

A house fire caused by putting a non-dimmable CFL into a dimmed socket.

www.wtop.com/

Not a lot of information there, was the light dimmed? what was the
brand? was it just defective and would have burned up anyway? I post
this because I've reported success using dimmable X10 wall switches to
turn on and off CFL's in the past here. Special care must be taken
though! And I've noticed that they can make the whole array of lights
flicker some anyway so i've been slowly replacing mine with either
insteon relay switches or X10-Pro ca-thunk switches (which are not
expensive!) which I prefer to the old method where possible. I should
add though that I've never actually dimmed any of the non-dimmable
ones, and so far have never had any issue at all, not even had any of
the lights on the dimmers burn out or overheat or anything else. But I
do check them before walking away.

Thanks,
James

James Sentman sentman.com MacHomeAutomation.com