You mean you still use manual lightswitches?
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100w lamp.
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Had one of those in a standard pendant fitting. Failed long before its claimed service life. And due to the high initial cost, may not have saved any money overall. And, of course, had to put up with the pathetic light output until it warmed up. And even then, was nowhere near the claimed equivalent output.
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That was my reasoning. Now the house is equipped and there are spares of various sizes, no more buying for a year or so.
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I take greater satisfation in fitting something that does not need returning several times.
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Never had any CFL do that except ones called "biobulbs" which were daylight white before such a thing was commonplace. They overheated and some made smoke after 6 months.
I find the CFL claims just fine, but LED bulbs are much dimmer than rated.
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Such a thing is not always available at a sensible cost.
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Oh I don't know. There's something charmingly brutish about putting so much power through a bit of metal that it glows enough to give light.
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yes and it heats up the room as well ...
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light bulbs are more efficient as heaters than heaters. 5 % light 95% heat. how many heaters are 95% efficient.
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my catalyst flueless gas fire .....
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putting so
Or if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Why throw out a pefectly serviceable bulb? I'm waiting for the bulb in my desk lamp (40 W R50) that has a wobbly filament for years to go pop.
Er, electric ones are 100% as near as damn it... Fan heaters slighly less so as some of the enrgy input is converted to noise and moving air. Motor losses come out as heat.