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CFLs - switching on and off
In article , Grimly
Curmudgeon wrote:
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember
saying something
like:
Do you have further information on this? I understood that avoidance
of switch-on surges gave only minimal extra life to GLS lamps, though
considerable extra life to halogens.
As anecdotal evidence only...
I've noticed (as have others) that side-mounted filament lamps don't
last long, typically a few months of normal useage. Since powering a
desktop lamp through a push-button dimmer and using that dimmer as the
only on/off switch the same bulb has been in that lamp for the past 4
years. Ordinary 60W bulb, btw.
Many dimmers don't let you achieve full brightness. The bulb may
randomly have longer-than-average life. Some "ordinary" bulbs are
long-life versions (with slightly less light output).
So I am not surprised.
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