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Nate Nagel

On 01/25/2013 03:33 PM, wrote:
On Friday, January 25, 2013 6:57:44 AM UTC-5,
wrote:
75 watt incandescent bulbs were banned on January 1 of this year.

I am so effing sick of this extremist rhetoric.

They're not coming to take your light bulbs any more than they're
coming to take your guns. Our Federal government is too broke and
mired down in its own dysfunction to go around kicking in doors and
smashing light bulbs, Elliott Ness style.

What's banned is the manufacture and importation of 75 watt
incandescent bulbs, except for special-use types (i.e. rough service,
floodlights, etc.).

You can still use existing 75 Watt bulbs. You can still buy them as
long as supplies hold out. A couple boxes of them will likely last
you the rest of your life, and your kids will be used to CFL's so
they won't care.

I'll never get used to CFLs, they suck on several levels. The ONLY
thing that they have going for them is that they are more efficient than
incandescents.

The good news is that by the time recently-purchased CFLs start going,
LEDs will be widely available and affordable.

I'm using a 9W LED bulb in my bedside lamp; it was on sale at Lowe's for
$10 or so last year. I have no complaints with it at all, although I
don't remember seeing CRI specs on the packaging (one place where CFLs
tend to fall down unless you get expensive ones that you're not likely
to find in retail stores.) It is dimmable, which I've yet to see
acceptably demonstrated with CFLs even ones advertised as such. It also
is at full brightness in a second or so as opposed to a minute or so for
a CFL. If brighter LED bulbs were available for a similar price (and I
expect that they will be in a few years) I'd see no need to ever buy
another CFL again.

nate

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