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Default Over-claimed efficiency of CFL energy saving light bulbs

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:10:13 +0000, Andy Hall wrote:

|!On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:15:03 +0000, Steve Firth
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|!On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:08:59 +0000, David Hansen wrote:
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|!CFLs are not yet ready to replace conventional bulbs.
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|! Incorrect.
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|!No, he's correct. However to the hair shirt and sackcloth brigade no doubd
|!sitting in gloom gives them a feeling that they are "saving the planet".
|!
|!
|!
|!Quite. This is the biggest example of the king's suit of clothes
|!since the msn himself rode naked on horseback.

IME they are just as good as incandescents for the recommended transfers,
I started using them when they first came out, and the first ones I fitted
are now failing. Worth every penny I spent when they were *expensive*
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