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Joe wrote (slightly edited for space by me )

On Apr 29, 1:18*am, Sam Takoy wrote:

I'm looking at a ceiling fan that can take "(3) 40W 110V candelabra base
(E12)".

With modern light bulbs (CFL or LED) how much light will I actually be
able to get out of it?

Fan makers do not approve CFL's. Evidently the vibration kills them or
something. Therefore, you should really get fan rated 40W such as
those at Amazon. With three of them in your fixture there will be so
much light that you may want to tie them into a dimmer. Not a problem
in a huge high ceilinged room, of course.

My experience is that vibration in ceiling fan fixtures does not kill
CFLs.

My take is that fan makers do not want to be nailed to a wall for some
reason or another...

Meanwhile, I have seen CFL makers "stepping up to the plate" - but only
"endorsing" ceiling fan usage of CFLs as high as 9 watts by marketing 9
watt "ceiling fan CFLs". In my experience so far...

My biggest gripe with 9W ceiling fan CFLs is their design with outer
bulbs - heavily correlating with starting dimmer and needing more time to0
warm up.

Then again, I have been happy for almost 12 years with performance of
13W bare-tubing spiral CFLs in a ceiling fan fixture.
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