Well, I grant you my reading comprehension is low, but I did not disagree with your statement, and my reply is germane to the first half of what I quoted from your post, even if the ideas are fantasitical fantasy. I hoped you might address the content of my post rather than (I do it too, sometimes all night long) correcting someone on the Internet who is wrong. Why do we do it? Sometimes it helps. Sometimes it is just fun (I suspect that is your reason). But sometimes, at least I know myself, it is compulsion. I fight with the compulsion-monster within, usually it wins.
Here is my second attempt:
I wonder if there is a process that could be uncovered, developed by CPF members for CPF members, that could almost eliminate the unpredictable instaflash issue. I know SoftStart drivers help, but, inexplicably, as popular and as desired as SoftStart is, one must dig and beg other members for these now old and used drivers.
What I have in mind is a little crazy... but what the heck? Anyone think it would be helpful to throw a a cleaned and cold Halogen lamp into the oven and bake it at some ideal temperature for a spell, then while it is still hot, put it in a flashlight and fire it up? Could this reduce instaflash?
Also, my understanding is that freezing some materials down to very very cold temperatures for a few days, then allowing them to slowly return to ambient temperatures, can make those materials stronger than otherwise, extend their lifetime considerably. I know this works for guitar strings, and some will advertise they use this process. The kind of freezers producing the kind of low temperatures I am referring to (30K-50K, or whathaveyou) are neither common or cheap, but some will have access to them, possibly through their work in science at universities or larger sciency corporations.
Neither idea practical for the necessary invested time and cost (of gas, or electricity, and the equipment), for a speculative and unknown and unpredictable increase in lamp life? But could either method work, in theory?