On 5 Sep 2006 07:45:51 -0700, "Kev" wrote:

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|Dave Fawthrop wrote:
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| IME they do not fail at all, well *very* rarely. After running the whole
| house on low energy bulbs except for a few long flourescents, for mumble
| years I have last week had my first failure, a 23 watt bulb at the top of
| the stairs, it just stopped working. Highly chuffed with the long life
| of these lamps, IME well in excess of the advertised 10,000 hours.
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|Just out of interest, how did you dispose of the old bulb as you aren't
|supposed to bin them but there again I am hardly likely to all the way
|to the dump with a broken low enegy bulb.

Just binned it. Our local council does not provide special facilities, not
even at the local tip.

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