Andy Dingley wrote:
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:09:46 +0000, Steve Jones
wrote:

I've been buying low energy bulbs from Wilkinsons for some time now.

Try Lidl. They're made by some recognisable brand name (I forget
which), they're bright, they're lasting well and best of all they have
really fast warm-up at switch on.

Were these the ones with really skinny tubes?
I had one early failure (started flickering at 2 hours) due to the
bulb being missasembled, and a couple of resistors shorting out, and
needing re-bent.