5 Feb
2015
5 Feb
'15
12:55 p.m.
I absolutely hate them. The color temperature of the light they generate is
dreadful... harsh; the increase in lifetime over incandescents is nothing
near what is claimed; they are full of mercury and I find they are prone to
breakage where the tube meets the ballast when screwing or unscrewing them
in a socket. When I bought my home, I replaced every single one I found
with a good ole 60 watt GE Soft White. I will be hoarding big time when
they try to finally kill them off for good.
Best,
Sean
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Jacob Ritorto <jacob.ritorto at gmail.com>
wrote:
I think CFLs are kind of terrible.
http://www.richsoil.com/CFL-fluorescent-light-bulbs.jsp
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Mouse <mouse at rodents-montreal.org> wrote:
Personally, I worry a bit about LED lamps supplanting the
incandescents.
Me too - though for a different reason: a (tungsten) incandescent bulb
is an extremely useful thing when working on small appliances. Hook it
up in series with the mains and shorts in the appliance (a) don't do
any damage and (b) are obvious when the bulb goes full brightness. (Of
course, the bulb has to be sized appropriately for the appliance's
normal draw; a 50W bulb will false-positive when testing an iron. :-)
And then there are people who use them as heating elements in (eg)
wood-drying kilns. And I'm sure there are plenty of other applications
I haven't heard/thought of.
Perhaps fortunately, it appears that here, at least, incandescents
aren't completely banned, just vanilla 100W ones. (I am, though,
somewhat worried about this being the camel's nose.)
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