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Lightbulbs aren't all that standardized though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightbulb_socket https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightbulb_socket I had never seen
by jpatokal 8y ago
Lightbulbs aren't all that standardized though:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightbulb_socket https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightbulb_socket
I had never seen a bayonet mount before I moved to Australia, but they're still reasonably common here.
- stephengillie 8y agoBayonet mounts are common for car turn signals, or at least they were in the 1980s and 1990s.
- jessaustin 8y agoYes but there's a fair bit of variation in size, proportion, and terminal location among the lights of various cars.
- cafard 8y agoAnd headlights.
- toomanybeersies 8y agoThe split between bayonet and screw in Australia does my head in, especially if you're in an older house where the landlord is cheap/doesn't care and half your sockets are bayonet and half are screw. I need to replace a lightbulb in my hallway, but I don't know if it's screw of bayonet. I always forget to check at home, and then when I'm at the shops I don't know what one to get. It's been like that for a month now.
- NamTaf 8y agoI end up owning like 4 spare of each type for this reason. And then you get newfangled low-profile bulbs with a smaller socket for the screw or bayonet. One day I'll be pissed off enough at the problem to buy the solution but I suspect that'll take some time since the infrequency with which I replace bulbs means it doesn't sit in my active memory as something to do.