"Joe" wrote in message
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On Dec 16, 5:01 am, "HeyBub" wrote:
"The shutdown-averting budget bill will block federal light bulb
efficiency
standards, giving a win to House Republicans fighting the so-called ban
on
incandescent light bulbs. GOP and Democratic sources tell POLITICO the
final
omnibus bill includes a rider defunding the Energy Department's standards
for traditional incandescent light bulbs to be 30 percent more energy
efficient."

http://www.politico.com/news/stories...#ixzz1gh6osdCL

Saving energy is worthwhile, of course, but in some cases there is a
safety issue that is overlooked or disregarded. The nearly point
source of incandescent lighting produces sharper defined edges (to
better see cutting tools) and lacks the possible stroboscopic effect
of other illumination. Ask any journeyman tool and die maker or talk
to a professionally qualified industrial safety engineer for insight.
This why in my shop the tool illumination is well placed incandescents
as well as the small entry lights. General lighting with conventional
fluorescents works out OK.

Joe

I've had a garage door opener fail and the self diagnoses check that I went
through with Genie said that the circuit board failed. They would send me a
new board for $68.
We have a home warranty policy ($75 deductible) so I called in a claim and
they sent a company out and they declared the unit unfixable and replaced
it. The unit was an older Genie, and I had been using CFL bulbs.
He said absolutely do not use CFLs in the openers. Voltage spikes from the
bulbs can short out the circuit boards.

Is he right? I don't know. But I stopped using them in the openers.

No proof to back this up that I can find, but I'm just throwing it out
there. He does it for a living.