CFL follow-up [RE-wrenches]

[Warren Lauzon]

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I have had such bad luck with CFL's that I have gone back to Halogens for 
any lighting that gets switched on and off much.

About a year ago I bought a 10-pack of (supposedly) name brand Sylvania and 
as of right now only 2 of them are still working.

If this is "green" then I must be missing something.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Todd Cory, Mt. Shasta Energy Services" <toddcory at finestplanet.com>
To: <RE-wrenches at topica.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: CFL follow-up [RE-wrenches]


>
> 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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