Do the requirements for ceiling fan light kits packaged with pin-based sockets for fluorescent lamps apply to ceiling fan light kits with GU24 sockets?
DOE understands that GU24 is a base type that has large pins that lock into a GU24 socket. The GU24 socket is a line-voltage socket and is capable of accommodating different types of lamps, including incandescent lamps. Section 325(ff)(2)-(4) of EPCA classifies ceiling fan light kits by socket type only, not be the lamp-type inserted into those sockets. (42 U.S.C. 6294(ff)(2)-(4)) The socket type classified as pin-based for fluorescent lamps has been uniformly understood to refer to sockets which (1) receive (and operate) fluorescent lamps that lack an integral ballast and (2) transmit voltage, received through a ballast, to such lamps at levels considerably higher than the line voltage. Due to the fact that this socket type operates at line voltage and such sockets are not uniquely associated with fluorescent lamps, DOE does not consider them to be “pin-based sockets for fluorescent lamps.” (42 U.S.C. 6295(ff)(3)) Rather, DOE considers any ceiling fan light kit with GU24 sockets as th
