Our Masters in Brussels to switch off the watt rating on light bulbs. It’s to be lumens.

 

1. I really don’t have any problem with CFLs.
   Sure they take a few seconds to fully light, but since they pull
   so much less power you can move up a step or two to get even more
   light than with standard incandescent bulbs....
   on a 60watt/900lumen lamp you can put a 100watt equivalent CFL
   and still only be pulling 25watts for >1600 lumens< (save money and more light!)

   And in a couple of years the CFLs are going bye-bye anyway…
   the LED lights are already starting to drop in price.
   They’ll pull 1/10th the power of a CFL with even MORE light
   and you’ll be able to dial them to any color you want.
   Plus they’ll last 100,000hours or more (lifetime bulbs!)

   Posted by TimO       05/24/2009  at  06:17 PM  



2. Tim, Yeah but so far we have never found an energy saving bulb that gave off the light we require to read by. There is always this (don’t know exactly how to describe it except to say) a dullish yellow glow.  We used to have an energy saver in a floor lamp behind a chair in this room, and still have to keep a regular light burning on the table some feet away.  When I finally got tired of squinting and took out the green bulb and replaced it with the old fashioned 100watt, bingo. I could see again.

   Posted by peiper       05/25/2009  at  03:52 AM  



3. Most of the screw-in, self-ballasted CFs you find at the local Home Depot or Tesco are pure trash.  And a brand name on them means nothing.  That lamp with “GE” or “Osram” on it came from the “Joy River Happy Lamp Manufacturing Cooperative Labor Camp #47” factory last month, and next month will be from the “Hail Mao Our Peerless Guide to Destiny Re-Education Village #92” the next.  There is no consistency to the quality or characteristics.

   The only CFs worth anything are the commercial-grade units, most of which are two- and four-pin base units designed to run on a separate ballast. Those, in a quality lamp, do a heck of a fine job of lighting for the amount of energy consumed.

   I run CFs in most of my fixtures here, but mine, although they are screw-in, are commercial grade units I get at work (I work for a lighting contractor).  The store-bought stuff is, for the most part, slave-camp trash made my the same people who bring you collapsing baby carriages (prams), toys coated in lead paint, power converter that overheat, and melamine-laced dog food.

   Posted by The Friendly Grizzly       05/25/2009  at  07:29 AM  



4. I run 6500K CFL 100-watt-equivalent bulbs and they work great, they’re the most natural light. If you can get them in the EU, do so....or do they want you in dim-ass light too?

   Posted by Macker       05/26/2009  at  07:31 AM  

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