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Another reason ...
Remember my post a few weeks back "Another Reason to Hate CFLs" ? Well,
here's yet another. That one that I put in my bench light, that started it all, has now become so dim, that it is worse than useless. It has been getting worse and worse over the last week. There are signs of the ballast enclosure running hot, so I guess that any electros in there, have just cooked dry, due to the fact that it is predominantly hanging down, in a semi-enclosed 'shade', much like a lot of household room and decorative lighting does. They are fundamentally a crap technology that has been forced on a largely unwanting public, by supposedly green issues with a dubious foundation in fact. I know a lot of people on here seem to like the dreadful things, and swear by them, but my continuing experience, judged from when they first appeared, right up until now, just makes me want to swear *at* them ... I have now found an internet site selling all varieties of incandescents, including 60 watt pearl, so I shall be stocking up post haste. I have also just started trying out the halogen versions of traditional light bulbs, which still seem to make it into the eco-bollox "book of energy savers", even though they only consume a few watts less than their equivalent light-output 'traditional' tungsten cousins. Thus far, I am impressed. I now have a 70 watt actual, 100 watt equivalent, fitted to my hallway main light fixture. It is very bright, very easy (for me anyway) to see by, and has a good colour spectrum, not in the slightest way offensive to my eyes, unlike the CFLs, which no matter how much anyone says that *they* can't tell the difference with, *I* can ... d :-\ Arfa |
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