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It's frustrating...when you spend $100 on a lamp, and it expires after eighteen months. The bulb is supposed to last 10,000 hours, which is a fat lot of use when the lamp dies first. There's nothing obviously wrong; I took apart the bits which can be taken apart and can't find any fuses or anything that looks bust. Just...it doesn't work, and the company's advice is: it's out of warranty, you should go buy a new one.

I don't want to throw out a lamp. It took masses of resources to make, and it shouldn't be that difficult to fix. A lamp ought to last for years. But I don't know how to fix it, and I don't know enough to find out how, and most of the components are fused into plastic cases that you can't open, anyway. That too is frustrating. I frequently wish we lived in a Fix culture rather than a Replace culture. Now is one of those times.