goodbye incandescent bulbs

[pascopol]

LED's are perhaps a future but we need lighting every day rather every night NOW.

All of you complaining about CLF's light quality remember if you buy 2200 K CLF I bet you can not tell difference between incadescent bulb and CLF. They come in range of 2200 K (warmest more yelowish light just like incadescent) then 4600K, 5600K 6400K. The last one is the one most people objects to ("cool" light).

Unfortunately I never seen those in Wallie or Home depot. Department stores sell cheap CLF's which are not even market as for they K (Kelvin) output. Most of them falls in the midrange about 4600K and 5600K.

I mailordered them 2200K 30Watts CLF's and I am very happy with the light color. I also found 30W is the most price and energy efficient CLF, actually giving me 2000 lumens of light , a lumen is an amount of light (more tham 100W incadescent and more than "standart 23W or 25W CLF's offered in stores).

As for mercury scare and paranoia does anybody know that

fluorescent lights (tubes) commonly used since the 1930's contain much more mercury than CLF's due to their much larger cubic volume?

Yet nobody ever pointed it out. I bet eveybody has used them fluorescent tubes or is still using them in kitchens, bathrooms, under cabinets etc.

So don't be paranoid about mercury.

And CLF's are using about 50% less power and generate very little heat (extra savings on Air in hot climates - southern states).

So until they come up with suitable and affordable LED's I'll be using CLF's.

In current state of technology and proper selection they are the "right choice".


At the same token I am against government telling anybody what bulbs to use. If you want incadescent and you are willing to pay for most energy turning into heat instead of light, you should be able to do so.

As a proof incadescent bulbs turn most energy into heat not light is a fact that we use them in brooders, and homemade incubators. LOL

 

[stilldeb]

There is still the problem of heat if you use regular bulbs in your brooder box, which I do. I have a catalog that sells the LED bulbs and they are about $50 a piece. Hate the CFCs. Also, I have Lupus and am super sensitive to fluoroscent light - hurts both my skin and my eyes. I grab a box of incandescents everytime I go to the store, too. They won't last forever, but...


deb g
KY

 

[showme69]

If you're concerned about having the 100-watt bulbs in the future, just do what I and others on here are doing. Stock up.

I hope they eventually reverse the ridiculous ban on incandescents but in case they don't, I already have about 150 stockpiled and continue to buy more. Even if I don't use them all, they'll be around for my children. I buy them at Wal-Mart, got some today for 84-cents for a 4-pack and they're made in the USA. The CFLs are all made in China. If people are buying CFLs because they are concerned about the environment, they should check into how well China safeguards the environment when manufacturing items with toxic chemicals involved.

And what's up with the reduced wattage incandescent bulbs that were around for awhile. I haven't seen them lately, but when they first did it and wanted me to buy 52-watt bulbs instead of 60-watt, I bought the 67-watt instead, so they weren't accomplishing their goal with me.