This is an odd one.
Sunday afternoon I was napping and heard a "plop" from the stairwell.
Turns out, the glass globe from a Cree 9.5 watt bulb (60 watt equivalent), installed base up, had fallen off. The "plop" was the globe hitting a carpeted stair. It didn't shatter.
At first I thought the globe was either a slip fit or had been glued into the base, and had just gotten loose, but close up you can see where the glass fractured. The light was not on at the time.
The light still worked, and if anything was brighter, but the box says not to operate without the globe, so I took it back. Actually, you're supposed to mail it back to Cree, but I'd been through this once with a GE "2 year" halogen bulb and never got any response....
Happily, Home Depot replaced the bulb even though it was beyond their 90 day return policy, so all's well.
I'm not sure what happened. Probably the bulb had gotten banged around in shipping almost to the point of failure. I didn't over-tighten it or put any unusual stress on it, I'm sure. Why it took over three months to fall off is the mystery!
For the curious, this is what it looks like on the inside.

Sunday afternoon I was napping and heard a "plop" from the stairwell.
Turns out, the glass globe from a Cree 9.5 watt bulb (60 watt equivalent), installed base up, had fallen off. The "plop" was the globe hitting a carpeted stair. It didn't shatter.
At first I thought the globe was either a slip fit or had been glued into the base, and had just gotten loose, but close up you can see where the glass fractured. The light was not on at the time.
The light still worked, and if anything was brighter, but the box says not to operate without the globe, so I took it back. Actually, you're supposed to mail it back to Cree, but I'd been through this once with a GE "2 year" halogen bulb and never got any response....
Happily, Home Depot replaced the bulb even though it was beyond their 90 day return policy, so all's well.
I'm not sure what happened. Probably the bulb had gotten banged around in shipping almost to the point of failure. I didn't over-tighten it or put any unusual stress on it, I'm sure. Why it took over three months to fall off is the mystery!
For the curious, this is what it looks like on the inside.
