"Arfa Daily" wrote in message
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Remember my post a few weeks back "Another Reason to Hate CFLs" ? Well,
here's yet another. That one that I put in my bench light, that started it
all, has now become so dim, that it is worse than useless. It has been
getting worse and worse over the last week. There are signs of the ballast
enclosure running hot, so I guess that any electros in there, have just
cooked dry, due to the fact that it is predominantly hanging down, in a
semi-enclosed 'shade', much like a lot of household room and decorative
lighting does. They are fundamentally a crap technology that has been
forced on a largely unwanting public, by supposedly green issues with a
dubious foundation in fact.

I know a lot of people on here seem to like the dreadful things, and swear
by them, but my continuing experience, judged from when they first
appeared, right up until now, just makes me want to swear *at* them ...

I have now found an internet site selling all varieties of incandescents,
including 60 watt pearl, so I shall be stocking up post haste. I have also
just started trying out the halogen versions of traditional light bulbs,
which still seem to make it into the eco-bollox "book of energy savers",
even though they only consume a few watts less than their equivalent
light-output 'traditional' tungsten cousins. Thus far, I am impressed. I
now have a 70 watt actual, 100 watt equivalent, fitted to my hallway main
light fixture. It is very bright, very easy (for me anyway) to see by, and
has a good colour spectrum, not in the slightest way offensive to my eyes,
unlike the CFLs, which no matter how much anyone says that *they* can't
tell the difference with, *I* can ... d :-\

**Why would you stock up on incandescents? In a few years, LEDs will be
pretty much the standard and reasonably priced and they keep their colour
temperature when dimmed. As for experiences, mine is all good (with CFLs).
In the past 7 years, I've had two failures (out of 19 installed). One I
dropped and the other a possum sat on it. I either use CFLs or straight
tubes just about everywhere. When I really need a lot of light, I hook up my
80 Watt (or 160) halide. Either one makes a 500 Watt halogen look sick.
There are a few places in my homoe where I still have
incandescents/halogens. I can't wait to dump them. They're unreliable pieces
of ****. Give me CFLs any day. Or LEDs. Or halides, when I need them.


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Trevor Wilson
www.rageaudio.com.au