A 220-volt lamp will not work in a 220-volt outlet if a 120-volt light bulb is used.
Before you start laughing, this was not entirely my fault. I bought this nice lamp in Korea just before I moved. The nice Korean woman packaged it for me so I had never used it. When it arrived here with my things from Korea last week, I looked at the plug and it said 220-volts. Imagine my delight! Finally I could plug in a light and wouldn't be stumbling from my bed to the door at 5:30 in the morning! However, as the bulbs quickly smelled of smoke and then died, I discovered that the bulbs were 120-volts (there aren't any 220-volt bulbs that fit in the light; believe me, I tried). Somehow this seems fitting with the "not quite right" theme of Korea!
2 comments:
Oh the joys of living in multiple foreign countries! Ah, how I miss the land of not quite right!
On a positive note, I love the lamp you finally picked. :o).....sorry you won't be able to use it for a few years.
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