Yesterday we lost yet another of our supposedly long-lasting CFL bulbs. This one was an interior floodlight made by Bright Effects and sold by Lowes. It apparently got hot enough to crack the bulb’s base. Yes, bulbs that hang upside-down do get hotter at the base but bulbs designed to hang upside-down should be designed with this in mind, and CFLs operate cooler than incandescent bulbs, anyway.
These bulbs are supposed to last seven years but this one made it just 15 months. I’m going back to Lowes again to complain. This is the third bulb from that batch that’s died early.