It's very funny to me how IKEA lamps _I bought before_ (years ago) that used to have the "75W max to avoid fires" warning stickers now have "13W max to avoid fires" warning stickers because LED lamps

I mean it's _possible_ they changed the wire cross section significantly but somehow I doubt it

anyway I'm pretty sure you could put a 75W actual electrical load LED light bulb in there and it would be totally fine load-wise but also lol not for indoor lighting

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I always thought that the reason for the limit was not wires, but heating (mostly radiative) of various things around the bulb (e.g. the plastic around the socket). That obviously also depends only on the total emitted power, but ISTM less preposterous that something could have changed there.

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