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Default Confusion over Dimmers for CFLs

On 4/27/2008 9:06 PM Art Todesco spake thus:

Wayne Boatwright wrote:

On Sun 27 Apr 2008 10:41:48a, Art Todesco told us...

How well do they work? What was your source? Are they reflector
flood/spot lights? What wattage?

They don't dim well .... by that I mean
they do flicker quite a bit. If lucky, you
can find a sweet spot where they don't
flicker too much. I was using X10 to
do the dimming; a real dimmer might work
better. They were the standard
twist lamp and were pretty bright, I'm
guessing 20 some watts. I got them at the
local Menards home center.


Reading this, along with several other responses regarding CFLs on
dimmers, makes me agree with whoever it was here who said, basically,
"Forget about dimmers; who needs them?". Hopefully in the
not-too-distant future, interior light dimmers will have gone the way of
the lava lamp and the color organ. There's really nothing that lights on
dimmers can offer that can't be done better (and cheaper) by good
lighting design to begin with.


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