On Oct 17, 7:40 pm, "Jeff" wrote:
Has anyone tried dimmable compact fluorescent bulbs. How well do the work
and do they smoothly dim? What brand name did you use?

Thanks,

My experience matches TKMs, plus one other observation when I tried
this a few years ago in our dining room. I had a regular tungsten
bulb in one lamp socket and a dimmable CFL in another, and started
dimming. As expected, the tungsten bulb got dimmer and yellower, but
the dimmable CFL got dimmer and bluer. I totally hated the color of
the dimmed CFL, so as of now our entire house has CFLs, with the
exception of the dining room which still has tungsten bulbs on the
dimmer.

The one dimmable CFL I got I ended up just putting it in another non-
dimmable fixture somewhere, and I don't even know which one any more.

Ken