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the lightbulb seemed to go out on our oven. I got a new bulb (screw-type) and with some difficulty got the old one out and put the new one in. The bulb glowed orange for a second then nothing. I turn it on and off and sometimes it does this but mostly not. I got another new bulb, same thing. I very gingerly wire wooled inside the bulb socket in case ovenskank was blocking the connection. this didn't help. I then went on lfgss and told my story on any Q, the Q being, what can I try to make this work?

Is it an LED bulb? I tried that, and failed. Needed an incandescent bulb.

yep both bulbs I tried, and the bulb that died are all incandescent

Is it in the cooker hood? Perhaps the light has a transformer, and the transformer has died? Can you download the manual?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=Loxone+Miniserver+Go&_sacat=0&rt=nc&LH_Complete=1

Might be worth a shot? You can put it up BIN anyhow while you look for somewhere else

tis in the actual oven, inconveniently right at the back

I suppose it might have a transformer? If the transformer is dead, could this explain why your new bulb glowed briefly?

Pearl Izumi

I got a new bulb

Oven bulbs are very specific, due to having to operate at a high ambient temperature. Are you using a bulb designed for exactly the oven you're trying to fix?

Weird, I turned the oven on and the light came on when it got hot, something to do with expansion?

something to do with expansion?

In the end, everything is something to do with expansion 🙂

expansion of my arse currently, having not ridden in weeks

Sadly, your arse is not alone.
For the same reasons.

I've upped my riding! Yet still the arse and belly will not retreat. Pah!

Maybe my notion of cheap is outdated, they're like £65 (which I'm realising is cheap in these modern times).

Oven wiring is often extremely crude. If you take the back off you’ll find a loose spade connector or a bad crimp or a melted terminal or some such.

thank you!

melted terminal

I had this recently. It's probably worth opening it up a bit more and checking.

You know how nice and bendy the flexes on Mikata products are?

Where could one buy a load of that cable for use elsewhere?

Also why don't upside down plugs where the lead comes out the top exist? Loads of chargers have cables straight out or out the top.

Where could one buy a load of that cable for use elsewhere?

I'm guessing a cable shop 🙂
You're probably looking for elastomeric sheath and a high strand count, 3183TRS is the common UK spec with class 5 conductors, but there's probably a IEC spec with the more flexible class 6 conductors

ETA: HO7RN-F is the more robust workshop grade, but still class 5 conductors in the small sizes you're concerned with.

Also why don't upside down plugs where the lead comes out the top exist?

The UK mains plug is designed that way so that when you trip over the cable, the live pin pulls out before the earth does. Not an issue if the wire is only carrying the very low voltage output of a transformer or SMPS

I have multiple Pearl Izumi bibs that lasted for years, still going strong.

Cheers.

can I use a road crankset with MTB rear derailleur, running 1x?

now what if that MTB rear is 12s SLX, and my crankset is road 11s?