On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:42:41 GMT, "Arfa Daily"
put finger to keyboard and composed:

Just another little spanner in the works. When the governments try to
actually introduce the ban on incandescents, will it just be on
'conventional' spheres, or will they try to do it for halogen and spot
decorative lamps as well? I would think that there is a huge useage of these
lamps now, since all the big DIY warehouses started selling both fancy light
fittings with multiple halogens in them, and cheap ceiling downlighter kits,
with 3 or 5 halogens in them. I have two light fittings in my lounge with
five 20 watt halogens in each, plus two 60 watt spots. Over my stairs, I
have five ceiling downlighters, and then another five along the upstairs
corridor. There are another three in the main bedroom, and four in the
shower room. If these lamps get banned as well, then I'm either going to
have a lot of useless holes in the ceiling, or going to have to replace them
with poor colourmatch LED fixtures ...

Arfa

The July 2007 issue of Silicon Chip magazine has an article entitled
"A LED to replace 50W halogens?"

It talks about Osram's soon to be released "Ostar Lighting LED" which
is rated for 1000 lumens. A 50W halogen produces 900lm.

http://www.reuk.co.uk/Osram-Ostar-Lighting-LED.htm

- Franc Zabkar
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