ARWadsworth wrote:
Tim Watts wrote:
Lieutenant Scott wrote:

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

Good - you shoudl be OK then (assuming it's not a rip off).

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.

I said Index (CRI if you want to be pedantic), not colour temperature.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_rendering_index

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.

What?? I have never seen a heat damaged lamp 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 point being we've gone from a simple choice of one main fitting
(not counting tubes), not to 2 or 3 to suit smaller fittings, but
half a dozen just for mains direct drive:

BC
SBC
ES
SES
GU10
G9

ELV is just as bad

Then there's various fluorescent fittings T4,T5,PLS,PLC,PLT, 2D 2pin,
2D 4pin, GX53

It's mad...

So are women. Have you seen all different fittings they offer:-)?

I thought the idea was that one standard plug would fit any of three
sockets available unless I've been doing something wrong all these years!