[aprssig] TAPR Dayton Solar Talk

[John Ronan]

I've a mixture of CFL's and LED's (more recent) in the house.  The initial LEDS I got in a local DIY store had terrible light.  I called into a lighting specialist in town, the bulbs are much better and XYL is very happy with them.

A few cheap CFLs had to be retired early as they generated shocking RFI.  

Of the rest, the first one died after about 14 years the second after 15.  I don't remember, but I' would say the very first bulbs cost me about €20 each. Two have had to be replaced after over 15 years now, so I'm fairly happy with them.  I've settled on Philips bulbs.  As any cheaper ones seem to generate a lot of RFI.

Regards
John
EI7IG


On 29 May 2011, at 02:25, Wes Johnston, AI4PX wrote:

> I've not had good luck with CF's either...  Replaced every single lamp in the house with CF 3 years ago, and they are burning out... I've lost 3.   I'm awaiting LEDs.  I think they quality goes down too much when they make CFs cheap enough to be viable.
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> On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 19:09, DALE <wa7ixk at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> CLS's last a long time .but they are not very reliable.
> I have had two go bad in one month.
> I have a 12 V one I bough in 1974 that still works, altho not used much.
> Halogens use less electricity, put out more light, and last longer than incandescence's.
> When I am heating my house in the winter with my heat pump I use Halogen's.
> In the summer with air conditioning on I use CFL. Only because they were $.00 each,
> some were free.
> I have purchased thee Wall-mart LED lamps, every one has failed.
> Could be Chinese quality.
> Dale
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> On 5/28/2011 Bob Bruninga  wrote:
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> >   But the CFL lasts 10 years!  And every place that sells them accepts them back for re-cycling.
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> I haven't have one last 2 years yet - my last one lasted 3 weeks.  Guess what, R30-R40 shaped bulbs in ceiling fixtures, side by side on the same circuit, the CFLs last LESS time than the incandescent bulbs on the same fixture - I often HAVE to use CFLs, because it's all the local store stocks - I use them till I can get a bunch of incandescents in, and when they burn out, I put incandescents in
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