Why electric light bulb more often burns out when we switch from OFF to ON our wall switch, but not during regular work? What happens to it so it burns?
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Best Answer
The sudden change in temperature from cold to hot is quite a violent thermal-mechanical shock to a light bulb. Of course you get the same when you turn it off too but then you'll only notice it has failed when you come to switch it back on.
Also, the cold-resistance of the filament is quite low so, when power is initially applied there is a very high current surge that settles down in a few tens of milliseconds to normal running current. Wiki says this: -