Fiber Optic Light Bulb ????

[Carol]

So the 1988 Fiber Optic Flower cube that my daughter bought me at the thrift shop takes a Halogen 6V/10W light bulb.  The sales guys at Lowe's says that is a rare bulb as they don't carry anything in a 6V.  The closest I came was a 10V.  Also, it's the 2 pin kind.  I'm going to look online, but is this bulb obsolete and if so can I sub for something else??

[VOXul]

Are any of these a winner?

Capsule

Narrow Spot

Narrow Flood

[Carol]

Vox, I think this is it!!!  Replacementbulbs.com where I ordered my bulbs for my Clearview didn't have this bulb.  The one I took out doesn't have a shield over it.  It is open face.  God, I hope this is it.  I ordered 3 of them.  The shipping was 10.79 and the darn bulbs were a buck something..........do they usually turn black when they blow?  because this bulb I took out looks brand new.  The motor in the lamp is going because the color wheel is spinning, so I know it's not the motor.  It's just not lighting but the bulb looks fine.  I'm thinking if it's from 1988 original bulb it could have just dry rotted, if that's possible?

https://www.1000bulbs.com/product/54409/MR11-8191.html

Oh and in the description it says for novelty lamps which is what made me thing it might be it.  They don't give you a number for this bulb on the box the lamp came in.  It just says on the bottom of the lamp 6V 10 Watt halogen. 

 

[VOXul]

Yes, the halogen bulbs can go out leaving a black residue inside the glass, sometimes they burn out a little more violently than an incandescent. Those should be the bulbs if the plug style matches.  I have a high power color wheel for long fiber optic strand cable that takes a similar bulb but little higher power. I should dust that thing off and see if it still works.

[Carol]

This is the stock bulb:

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EBay will have what your looking for if not check out 1000 light bulbs.com  or RadioShack.com

[Carol]

Yep J, 1000bulbs.com!  That's one of the sites that had it.  Even Amazon didn't have it.  I really hope it's the bulb.  I don't know what else it could be because the fiber optics don't really have a lot of parts to go bad.  The bulb and the motor.  Unless the cords leading to the bulb are bad, but they looked fine when I opened it up.

[VOXul]

Yea, the replacements you got should line up nice. Your power ratings are in line so as long as the prong spacing is a match you should be twinklin' in no time!

[Carol]

Finger's crossed!!!  That's one of my beddy bye lamps!!! 

[Carol]

I am VERY HAPPY to report, it was indeed a burnt out bulb problem and we are up and TWINKLING again!!!!!  As J noted, If anybody needs to find a rare bulb, 1000lightbulbs.com was pretty good.  Took about 3 days to ship.  Not too bad and they came packaged really well!!!