Don Y wrote:
On 11/28/2015 9:39 AM, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote:
Ed Pawlowski wrote:

I guess you get what you pay for. I looked at other cheap Utilitech
bulbs and the 60W equivalent is only 5000 hours. Same size from
Sylvania is 25,000 hours and is only a buck or so more.

The other thing to keep in mind is "dimable" vs. "non-dimable."

The dimable bulbs (i.e. Feits from Costco) tend to be large and heavy.
The bulb
base has extra electronics to managing the dimming. The "non-dimable"
Philips
bulbs (traditional style - not the flat ones) are much smaller and
lighter
weight. Depending on the type of dimmer you have, the non-dimable
builbs may
still work.

Non-dimmable bulbs in a dimmer circuit often consume *more* power (as
well as
almost ALWAYS forcing less efficient operation!) when used with dimmers
that
are "inappropriate"!

By wasted non-energy producing ghost Wattage!