"LSMFT" wrote in message
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Arfa Daily wrote:
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 :-\

Arfa

One bad bulb condemns the entire line. Good thinking.
I use them everywhere and they work great. There are different brands,
some made in the US, some in China or other places. Some have a short warm
up cycle others have longer ones.
I will never go back to incandescent heater bulbs.
If anything I will move onto to LEDs. Do you have stone wheels on your
car?



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LSMFT

Simple job, assist the assistant of the physicist.

And where did I ever say "one bad bulb" ? I actually said, if you took the
trouble to read the post properly, " - but my continuing experience, judged
from when they first
appeared, right up until now - "

Does that perhaps suggest to you that I have been trying different types
from all manner of manufacturers in all sorts of countries, for the last 15
years or more ? Yes, some do have a 'short warm up period' but that is still
massively long compared to an incandescent, which reaches its maximum light
output in a few mS - for all intents and purposes, instantly. There are some
places where CFLs have their uses, but for me, not many of them are inside
the house. If you like them, and want to fill your house with them, that's
fine. I however, don't.

But more than anything, I object to self-obsessed greenie politicians,
trying to force me to use them, based largely on a misconceived notion that
the things are 'eco-friendly'. If countries embraced nuclear power
generation in the way that France for instance, has, then there would not be
any need to mandate this nonsense, nor to cover the countryside and
coastline with stupid ugly and noisy windmills, and now to carpet the rest
of the countryside, in ridiculously inefficient photovoltaic panels ...

Arfa