On Sun, 04 Mar 2012 12:43:36 -0000, Tim Watts 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.


Possibly, if you buy a decent brand (eg with Cree, Nichia or Luxeon LEDs).

It's Cree I have.

If you buy cheap chinese crap from B&Q, you can look forward to LED chips
failing in short order.

Also the colour index is even more a minefield than CFLS.

Nonsense. With LEDs you can choose warm white, cool white, etc, etc. I've not seen much choice with CFL.

Filaments were so much simpler - no dimmer problems, and your choice was
limited to crap vs OK vis a vis lifetime. A GLS 100W filament while it
worked generally behaved like any other GLS 100W filament.

Filaments use a fortune in electricity and are very hot so tend to damage the light socket. You are also restricted in what shades you can use when using 100W ones (and even 60W).

And in the old days, we mostly only had BC fittings to worry about...

BC is a bit big and clumsy in my spotlights.

My kitchen has ES fittings (they were there when I moved in), but I bought some ES to BC adapters for a quid each so I can use up the free CFLs the energy companies keep giving me.

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