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New Dimmer
Today's newspaper had an ad for light dimmers that claim to work with all
types of lamps. Here's a piece from their web site. Dimming saves energy while setting the right light level to improve mood and ambiance. Screw-in compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) and screw-in light emitting diode bulbs (LEDs) are a great energy-saving alternative to incandescent or halogen light sources; however, dimming them may be difficult. Lutron's new CFL.LED (C.LT) Dimmers with HEDT Technology help alleviate your CFL and LED dimming challenges. The site itself is at http://www.lutron.com/Education-Trai...LsandLEDs.aspx Has any one had the chance to try one? Are they showing up in the B B stores? Ads are one thing, but personal experience is more important. I have no conection with Lutron except for a couple of old dimmers that have been in service for a long time Charlie |
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On Jan 23, 11:04*am, "Charlie" wrote:
Today's newspaper had an ad for light dimmers that claim to work with all types of *lamps. Here's a piece from their web site. Dimming saves energy while setting the right light level to improve mood and ambiance. Screw-in compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) and screw-in light emitting diode bulbs (LEDs) are a great energy-saving alternative to incandescent or halogen light sources; however, dimming them may be difficult. Lutron's new CFL.LED (C.LT) Dimmers with HEDT Technology help alleviate your CFL and LED dimming challenges. The site itself is *athttp://www.lutron.com/Education-Training/LCE/Pages/DimmingCFLsandLEDs... Has any one had the chance to try one? * Are they showing up in the B B stores? Ads are one thing, but personal experience is more important. I have no conection with *Lutron except for a couple of old dimmers that have been in service for a long time Charlie Lutron is a major manufacturer of dimmers and such, so odds are their products will work as advertised. Since a lot of tricky engineering (and possibly manufacturing) went into the products, expect the price to be a bit rather higher than most. Joe |
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On 1/23/2011 1:36 PM, Joe wrote:
On Jan 23, 11:04 am, wrote: Today's newspaper had an ad for light dimmers that claim to work with all types of lamps. Here's a piece from their web site. Dimming saves energy while setting the right light level to improve mood and ambiance. Screw-in compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) and screw-in light emitting diode bulbs (LEDs) are a great energy-saving alternative to incandescent or halogen light sources; however, dimming them may be difficult. Lutron's new CFL.LED (C.LT) Dimmers with HEDT Technology help alleviate your CFL and LED dimming challenges. The site itself is athttp://www.lutron.com/Education-Training/LCE/Pages/DimmingCFLsandLEDs... Has any one had the chance to try one? Are they showing up in the B B stores? Ads are one thing, but personal experience is more important. I have no conection with Lutron except for a couple of old dimmers that have been in service for a long time Charlie Lutron is a major manufacturer of dimmers and such, so odds are their products will work as advertised. Since a lot of tricky engineering (and possibly manufacturing) went into the products, expect the price to be a bit rather higher than most. Joe $30 for the wall mount and $13 for the inline model at http://tinyurl.com/4aql5ug on Lowes site. Don |
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On Jan 23, 3:18*pm, IGot2P wrote:
On 1/23/2011 1:36 PM, Joe wrote: On Jan 23, 11:04 am, *wrote: Today's newspaper had an ad for light dimmers that claim to work with all types of *lamps. Here's a piece from their web site. Dimming saves energy while setting the right light level to improve mood and ambiance. Screw-in compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) and screw-in light emitting diode bulbs (LEDs) are a great energy-saving alternative to incandescent or halogen light sources; however, dimming them may be difficult. Lutron's new CFL.LED (C.LT) Dimmers with HEDT Technology help alleviate your CFL and LED dimming challenges. The site itself is *athttp://www.lutron.com/Education-Training/LCE/Pages/DimmingCFLsandLEDs... Has any one had the chance to try one? * Are they showing up in the B B stores? Ads are one thing, but personal experience is more important. I have no conection with *Lutron except for a couple of old dimmers that have been in service for a long time Charlie Lutron is a major manufacturer of dimmers and such, so odds are their products will work as advertised. Since a lot of tricky engineering (and possibly manufacturing) went into the products, expect the price to be a bit rather higher than most. Joe $30 for the wall mount and $13 for the inline model athttp://tinyurl.com/4aql5ugon Lowes site. Don- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I didn't see anywhere where they claimed that the dimmer could be used with ordinary (non-dimmable rated) CFLs. They just said that lamps could be dimmed closer to zero and that they would have less flicker. I think if they could be used with ordinary CFLs they would have made that a big advertising issue. I know I would if it were my product. |
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"IGot2P" wrote in message ... On 1/23/2011 1:36 PM, Joe wrote: On Jan 23, 11:04 am, wrote: Today's newspaper had an ad for light dimmers that claim to work with all types of lamps. Here's a piece from their web site. Dimming saves energy while setting the right light level to improve mood and ambiance. Screw-in compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) and screw-in light emitting diode bulbs (LEDs) are a great energy-saving alternative to incandescent or halogen light sources; however, dimming them may be difficult. Lutron's new CFL.LED (C.LT) Dimmers with HEDT Technology help alleviate your CFL and LED dimming challenges. The site itself is athttp://www.lutron.com/Education-Training/LCE/Pages/DimmingCFLsandLEDs... Has any one had the chance to try one? Are they showing up in the B B stores? Ads are one thing, but personal experience is more important. I have no conection with Lutron except for a couple of old dimmers that have been in service for a long time Charlie Lutron is a major manufacturer of dimmers and such, so odds are their products will work as advertised. Since a lot of tricky engineering (and possibly manufacturing) went into the products, expect the price to be a bit rather higher than most. Joe $30 for the wall mount and $13 for the inline model at http://tinyurl.com/4aql5ug on Lowes site. Don Thanks, Don. I looked at Lowes before but those didn't show up on my search. I also noticed no reviews yet. I'll wait and see. I don't like being first on a new device. The prices aren't that bad if all the claims are true. We have a hanging lamp on a dimmer that we use as a night light when we go out and I don't know how long my stock of incandescents will last. Charlie |
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On Jan 23, 3:57*pm, "Charlie" wrote:
"hr(bob) " wrote in message ... On Jan 23, 3:18 pm, IGot2P wrote: On 1/23/2011 1:36 PM, Joe wrote: On Jan 23, 11:04 am, wrote: Today's newspaper had an ad for light dimmers that claim to work with all types of lamps. Here's a piece from their web site. Dimming saves energy while setting the right light level to improve mood and ambiance. Screw-in compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) and screw-in light emitting diode bulbs (LEDs) are a great energy-saving alternative to incandescent or halogen light sources; however, dimming them may be difficult. Lutron's new CFL.LED (C.LT) Dimmers with HEDT Technology help alleviate your CFL and LED dimming challenges. The site itself is athttp://www.lutron.com/Education-Training/LCE/Pages/DimmingCFLsandLEDs... Has any one had the chance to try one? Are they showing up in the B B stores? Ads are one thing, but personal experience is more important.. I have no conection with Lutron except for a couple of old dimmers that have been in service for a long time Charlie Lutron is a major manufacturer of dimmers and such, so odds are their products will work as advertised. Since a lot of tricky engineering (and possibly manufacturing) went into the products, expect the price to be a bit rather higher than most. Joe $30 for the wall mount and $13 for the inline model athttp://tinyurl.com/4aql5ugonLowes site. Don- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I didn't see anywhere where they claimed that the dimmer could be used with ordinary (non-dimmable rated) CFLs. *They just said that lamps could be dimmed closer to zero and that they would have less flicker. I think if they could be used with ordinary CFLs they would have made that a big advertising issue. *I know I would if it were my product. Web site gives a list of Lutron approve lamps. Must be marked "dimmable". Charlie- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Oh Yeah, I looked more closely and saw that that they do say "dimmable" a couple of places, but noticeably not on the pages where they show "approved" lamps. |
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