CFL follow-up [RE-wrenches]

Todd Cory, Mt. Shasta Energy Services toddcory at finestplanet.com
Tue Aug 28 15:33:39 PDT 2007


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Yeah, and we wonder why only 6% of US households use CFL's, and why it 
is so difficult to convince people to switch... sheesh.

Does the energy star label mandate these warts are not part of the 
product line?

Todd



David Brearley wrote:

>For some reason I decided that since the Home Depot CFLs are Energy Star
>rated, they can't be all that bad of a product.  Boy was I wrong.  One out
>of 10 bulbs failed right out of the box.  All of the bulbs flicker at start
>up.  Even worse, all of the bulbs take about 3 minutes to ramp up to full
>output.  Once they are warmed up, the quality of the light is better than it
>was a couple years ago, but I wanted to take all the bulbs out 5 minutes
>after they were installed.  Maybe if I just turn them on and off a bunch
>they will fail early?
>
>David 
> 
>


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