On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:02:41 +0000, Peter Scott wrote:

If not would people be willing to share their findings? I would be
happy to put together a spreadsheet and recordset of the findings if
they appeared to be consistent and useful

I think the biggest problem will be the rather subjective comments people
make. Some just don't like 'em, others are quite happy. What would be
useful is something that tabulates the make/model, rated power & lumens
output for each lamp and (in an ideal world) the real lumen ouput at
switch on from cold, at 1, 2, 5 and 10 mins, the colour temperature once
warm and if they start with or without a flicker. The latter half would
require an awful lot of effort though and decent measuring kit.

The first bit could be done by looking at the packaging as most, if not
all, lamps now have that info on them. There are a lot of lamps out there
but if a few people spent just 5 or 10 mins in the supermarket/DIY Shed
WHY making a note of the rating of all the lamps then sent that
information to a central point for collation it wouldn't be to much for
any single person to do, apart from collator! Mind you it wouldn't be
that hard to have a web interface to allow people to input their
findings.

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Dave. pam is missing e-mail