Incandescent lights [Re: It's time to restore the 11/45.]

[Sean Caron]

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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