"Timothy Murphy" wrote in message
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sm_jamieson wrote:

Are ES bulbs becoming more common than BC
? Any reason not to change my fittings ?

I don't know if they are becoming more common,
but they seem to me to be a much better system.

In what way is ES better than BC. I'd have said BC is far better because it
is quicker to change. It's a shame that there isn't a single standard for
all bulbs of the same voltage, to avoid the need to keep in small ES, large
ES, small BC, large BC bulbs for all the different fittings. My old house
was a show house and came with various light fittings in different rooms.
They'd used all hour different types of fittings (SES, LES, SBC, LBC) in
different rooms, even though all bulbs were the same size of glass (standard
candle bulb).

I wish someone would outlaw light fittings which expose the bare bulb - the
glare from a frosted bulb is bad enough but the glare from the cheapo clear
bulbs, where you can see the filament, is even worse.

I wish I could persuade my wife that I prefer to read in bed by a light
behind (or at one side of) the bed head, rather than by an overhead light
beyond the foot of the bed, where it's right in your field of vision when
you are looking at a book: rather than illuminating the page more brightly
than the rest of the room, you get the opposite :-(