Jeremy Nicoll - news posts wrote:

wrote:


Only if they live up to their promised lifetime which IME they don't
get anywhere near, especially the very expensive high power ones you
need to replace a 100W incandescent.

And if a CFL fails early in its life my experience is that one really
resents having to pay so much to replace it.


I have had consistently good results from Prolite spirals over the last 3
years. I have had a couple of bulbs burning 24h/day and the lifetime seems
to be around 2 years - so somewhere bweteen 15,000 - 20,000 hours.

The 25W and 30W BC ones are extremely good - fast start up and good light -
far better than an incandesent for working by.

But they are not cheap - which pretty much sums it up. I got fed up with
supermarket crap dying or being useless I did a trial of several types.

Megaman aren't a bad make either.

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Tim Watts