On Sep 25, 6:20*pm, "Phil Allison" wrote:
"Trevor Wilson"

**I suggest you read this:

http://www.choice.com.au/reviews-and...ergy-and-water...

** A laughably worthless test, not in any way related to normal use.

Something the rabid green lunatics at Choice are FAMOUS *for *!!!

Look at the pic *- *all the CFLs are suspended in mid air !!

No light fittings, not even a ceiling above them.

The room is air conditioned too.

And *NO *on /off *cycling at all *!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not *ONE *of the *KNOWN *issues with CFLs will be revealed in such a test.


Not only that, but by the time the 9000 hours (375 days @ 24H a day)
was up, most of the CFL bulbs tested would have been obsolete and
would have been superseded by other designs, or sourced from another
Chinese manufacturer who was now the cheapest, and while they may look
the same, they would likely use a different circuit, and probably
different parts as well - again sourced from who is now the cheapest
supplier.

Economic crisis would make this situation worse, with companies
involved closing and downsizing all over the place.


It would be like doing longevity tests on motherboards or hard drives.
None of the units tested would still be current or on sale by the time
the test was finished.


BTW:

One reason that Choice did not cycle the CFLs is that they found it *VERY
difficult to do.

If you try to switch on 10 or more CFLs at once, it will trip the lighting
circuit breaker ( 8 amp) regularly *- * with over 200 it will not even be
possible at all.

CFLs have large inrush surges, up to 20 amps peak or more for long enough to
active the magnetic trip on lighting breakers.

Looks like the CFLs in that test were powered from a wall outlet (ie using a
16 amp breaker) and brought on in groups of 10 ( using several multi-way
power boards) until they were all lit and left like that for 12 months.

Total ********.

The other green lunatic drivel quoted in the article makes me wanna puke.

.... Phil

You would have loved 4 corners last week then, I had never seen such
blatant propaganda in support of the Gillard government and the carbon
tax.