On Sun, 04 Mar 2012 12:37:19 -0000, John Williamson wrote:

ARWadsworth wrote:
Lieutenant Scott wrote:
On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 20:41:10 -0000, wrote:

I see a few places are stocking 100W incandescent bulbs again.

I thought they had been banned under EU regs.

Personally I welcome them. They are brighter than their
"equivalents". Instant on, and a hell of a lot cheaper now the
subsidies have rendered the so called more efficient lamps so
expensive. HN
Get an LED lamp and stop using the CFL ****. Instant on, 50,000 hour
life, bright, any tone of white you want, virtually no heat produced,
virtually no electricity used.

In your dreams.

From what I've read, there's a "bathtub" failure curve on them. Once
they've lasted a few weeks, they're fairly reliable.

There are indeed a lot of ****e ones. I made the mistake of buying a flimsy looking one manufactured in the UK once. It lasted about 2 months, then a third of the LEDs went off, a couple more months and another third went off.

These ones I have now have a 5 year warranty and use the new type of LED - there are only three huge LEDs in them as opposed to 120 LEDs in the crap one I had before (which incidentally cost more!)

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