Do you have the bulbs on when the gas isn't? If not, I can't see why
you want to remove 80W of heat when you're spending so much on the
1000W (say) heat from the gas.

On 26 Jan, 05:34, Appelation Controlee wrote:
We have one of those naff gas fires that has the yucky moulded pretend
coals that are illuminated by a couple of red bulbs driving spinners - the
"flicker" effect - by convection. Yes, the fire will ultimately be
consigned to oblivion, but not just yet.
The other day I realised that the two tinted bulbs, at 40w each, are using
more juice than is used illuminating the whole of the room (done entirely
with CFLs - 6 in total, although unimportant to the question following).