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14 years ago
In Europe: The great CFL rip-off.
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14 years ago
Talk about a storm in a teacup. My only CFL failure was when a possum sat on a naked lamp in the garage. I now have them in every fitting that will take them.
Having said all that, I agree that CFLs are far from perfect. LEDs, when they sort out the high power problems, should adress those issues nicely.
-- Trevor Wilson www.rageaudio.com.au
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14 years ago
A lot won't fit in oyster fittings, if they do they overheat in non vented oyster fittings
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14 years ago
- Stockpile a handful of incandescents.
- Choose another fitting.
- Buy one of the newer halogens, which the gummint seems to think are OK.
One of my light fittings won't take a CFL either. I don't use it.
I also have a bunch of incredibly stupid, wasteful 50 Watt halogen downlights. I rarely use them too. Dumbest light fitting ever designed. Well, it's OK for lighting a specific workspace (like the kitchen sink), but that's about it. How on Earth designers thought they'd be a good idea for space lighting is beyond belief.
-- Trevor Wilson www.rageaudio.com.au
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14 years ago
"Trevor Wilson
** Barley any of them are now left on sale - particularly scare are the BC fiting kind. ** Will be banned from sale within 2 years. ** Shame when the whole damn place is full of such fittings. ** Folk are still installing them now- despite the fact they are ear marked to be banned within a very few years.
Everything about the way CFLs are being made compulsory is a scam and a scandal.
May all the lunatic greenies burn in hell for it.
.... Phil
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14 years ago
Exactly.
Same here.
Yep. Until then I like my CFL's. Not perfect, but more than good enough for me to replace every light in my house with them.
Dave.
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14 years ago
Not always true, but yeah, it's an issue. I've got plenty of poorly ventilated oysters that don't give me any trouble. And the ridiculous variety of tiny CFL's available these days means there is one to fit almost any fitting. The ones that did give me poor life and/or light output I replaced with T5 circular fluoro fittings and the light output is much better and more even, and they run cooler in the non ventilated fittings. Can't comment on life, as I haven't had to replace any yet.
Dave.
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They are/were a good idea on the basis of looks, that's why they got to be so trendy and every new McMansion was filled with hundreds (no exaggeration) of them. It was all part of the "lifestyle" housing boom. You can now get recessed CFL fittings of all sorts, designed for that same look.
My house had a dozens of them when I moved in, they were the first things to be ripped out.
Dave.
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14 years ago
The issue is one of claimed equivalence. Clearly there's no difficulty in getting a CFL that's as bright as a given incandescent. But the equivalence claims on the boxes leave a lot to be desired, and do rather overstate the light output.
Sylvia.
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14 years ago
I suggest you buy some premium types next time. Forget the cheapies. They are crap. Actually, I just recall that I do have a couple of cheapies (Nelson branded) PAR38 floods. They take forever to warm up and the light output is very hard. Since they're in the backyard and rarely used, it doesn't matter so much. Still, when they're on, they do the job, consume 24 Watts (compared to 150 Watts with the incandescents they replaced) and they have lasted quite well so far.
-- Trevor Wilson www.rageaudio.com.au
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14 years ago
a scam and a scandal.
Amen to that!
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14 years ago
As long as you don't want any light out of them.
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Our main lighting is 3 50 watt halogens in the living room. Ordinary globes and CFLs won't work because of a very high ceiling (3.5 metres on one side), the light from the halogens focussed into the area where we sit in the evening. The lights are on from about 6pm in the winter 8pm in the summer to about 11pm, ie at worst 750watt hours per day. Using CFLs would save at most 500watt hours per day, probably less. If LEDs ever become available at reasonable cost, I'll consider them, but CFLs just don't cut it and the savings are quite minor.
Now, when the hot water system blew up 6 months back, I replaced it with a heat pump system. After the government rebates it cost less than a conventional electric system. The 2 electric bills that I have had since it was installed showed a savings of 7.5 and 5.0 Kw hours per day. Now that is real savings both in my pocket and for the environment.
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14 years ago
If you like them, fine, but for many lights, eg closets, bathrooms etc, they just aren't used enough to make any real savings.
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14 years ago
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14 years ago
You must be a pom and shower once a quarter :)
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14 years ago
Whether he needs to or not !
geoff
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14 years ago
I like the bit that suggets that the CFLs will last 2, 3, 4,5 years. Haven't had one last more than 8 months yet. BAse gets hot, smells very plasticy, and die.
Any how many supermarket receipts for bulbs does one keep ?
Sylvania
(Geoff , actually).
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14 years ago
Some Philips CLFs I have quote a 6000 hour life, and claim that's equivalent to 6 incandescents. However, some, albeit "long life" incandescents I have quote a 2500 hour life. Philips are presumably comparing with a very cheap incandescent.
6000 hour is about 4 years at 4 hours per day.If your CFLs are only lasting 8 months at a similar level of usage, then it's time to start keeping note, and getting refunds.
Time to start?
Sylvia.
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