Hi,
I've been buying low energy bulbs from Wilkinsons for some time now.
I've become so suspicious of there life expectancy that I started to mark the purchase date on the base of the bulb.
I've just has one fail after five months. If it was on for 24/7 this only amounts to 3600 hours. The bulb was in the bathroom so I'd only expect it to be on for 4 hours/day or less. So it's failed after about 600 hours.
A standard filament bulb has a life expectancy of 1000 hours and it only costs 20p, not two quid.
Am I just unlucky, do they really last six times longer - as advertised?
Steve.