As a follow up on the problems with GU10 Megaman bulbs I have found in the
packaging is a leaflet, this changes the claim yet again. In one part you
are again wrongly told a life of 15.000 but hunt about with a magnifying
glass and you find “up to15,000 hrs”. So in this they are not even saying
your average life may be 15,000 but that this is the maximum you can expect.
This latter is in my experience the reality.



I was very keen to adopt low energy bulbs, but am now very concerned that
they are to be hoisted on everyone when they are not any thing like what is
claimed for them. The “low” cost is on the bases of using cheep Chinese
labour with low levels of heath and safety and wages. The energy costs are
being reduced at the expense of China building coal fuelled generators so
the pollution is merely being exported else where. And the actual savings
don’t really exist any way as the live claimed is at best doubtful and
possibly dishonest.



From my experience and the comments of those posting before I am now against
low energy bulbs until they are able to produce a constant blight out put
over there life time, have a life claimed that is actually honest, that the
“green benefits” are not just a the expense of Chinese workers and
pollution.



As for the bulbs I have those I have receipts for I am now keeping a log and
as soon as they fail within there clamed life they will go back to the
retailer they came from for a refund or replacement. On current experience
that means every single one of nearly 30 we have in the house will at some
point be sent back. One they are finished with, its back to “normal” bulbs
for as long as we are able to get them, or the fraudulent low energy bulb is
performing as claimed.




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