Comments on: Compact Flourescent Light Bulbs http://www.chovy.com/consumer-advocacy/compact-flourescent-light-bulbs/ Web Development by Chovy Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:10:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: dave http://www.chovy.com/consumer-advocacy/compact-flourescent-light-bulbs/#comment-18741 dave Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:34:25 +0000 http://www.chovy.com/consumer-advocacy/compact-flourescent-light-bulbs/#comment-18741 I have compact fluorescent bulbs I've been using since the early 1990s, from Philips. The problem is a lot of stores now are getting cheap Chinese or Eastern European ones that don't put out any more light than an incandescent and burn out quickly. You need to get a real name brand - Philips for example! - and then they'll last for YEARS. Two caveats - you CANNOT use them with dimmers, and they WILL burn out faster than standard bulbs if they're being switched on and off constantly. They can burn practically forever; the wear comes when you use the on-off switch! So they are silly for things like the closet where you only leave teh lot on for ten seconds, but really good for things like that light you tend to leave on nearly all day... I have compact fluorescent bulbs I’ve been using since the early 1990s, from Philips. The problem is a lot of stores now are getting cheap Chinese or Eastern European ones that don’t put out any more light than an incandescent and burn out quickly. You need to get a real name brand - Philips for example! - and then they’ll last for YEARS.

Two caveats - you CANNOT use them with dimmers, and they WILL burn out faster than standard bulbs if they’re being switched on and off constantly. They can burn practically forever; the wear comes when you use the on-off switch! So they are silly for things like the closet where you only leave teh lot on for ten seconds, but really good for things like that light you tend to leave on nearly all day…

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