Sentence examples for test bulbs from inspiring English sources
(Energy Star doesn't test bulbs for certification).
There are some inexpensive multi-purpose tools to test bulbs without taking them out of the string!
"This will be the most publicly tested bulb ever," Mr. Brodrick said.
One such utility, Southern California Edison, will both test the bulbs and offer rebates to consumers, according to Gregg Ander, the company's chief architect.
"We've probably eliminated almost 25 products that were horrible," said James R. Brodrick, manager of the Solid State Lighting Program of the Energy Department. "We test LED bulbs today that claim on the package that they're equivalent to 40 watts, but are really like 20-watt bulbs".
If you want to test the bulb before doing anything and have a flat 3v battery at hand, place the bulb with one pin on each side as shown in the photo.
The Program for the Evaluation and Analysis of Residential Lighting at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., tests Energy Star-certified bulbs to see if they still meet requirements.
Turn on the lights to test the bulb.
This feature can be tricky to get to work but they will test a bulb if you remove it and put it in the tool and there is some way to go down a string with it to find a bad bulb.
"Tests with light bulbs, motion sensors, temperature sensors and even door locks have also shown that the vendors of the tested devices implemented the minimum of the features required to be certified [emphasis mine].
When the consumer group Which? recently tested 16 different bulbs, it was Ikea's Sparsam stick (pictured), priced at £3.25 a bulb, which ranked top – scoring 75 out of 100.
