In article , News wrote:
In about 102 fixtures/lamps in my home I have installed 68 CFL's. Some were
installed in 1998. Thus far I have had a total of 2 failures. The failures
were CFL's installed in 1998 and left on 24/7. Will be replacing more as
incandescent's fail.

When did they fail? Are their first replacements still working? This
means those are lasting at least 35,000 hours - which sounds too good to
be true!

I find that CFLs running 24/7 mostly last 1-2.5 years. I have seen
some last 3 years, but they are noticeably faded by 2 years.

- Don Klipstein )