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I see a gap in the market for that Trout fellow. 🙂
Mods - can you ban ransos please? He seems to know what he's going on about. Surely that's not allowed?
Blimey, next you'll be telling me that I shouldn't recreate that summer feel by putting patio heaters outside of each of my open windows during the winter months.
Treehuggers 😉
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Some are better than others at 'Warming up' properly. Some don't last very long (GU10 repalcements seem to be keen) but they ALWAYS use less energy than an incandescent.
They do seem to vary a lot.
I'm using a "normal bulb shaped" energy saver in the living room, but when you first switch it on you hardly even notice that it's on; and it takes a good 5 minutes to get to up to full brightness and even then it isn't bright enough to read by.
I thought I had done the right thing and gone for a more expensive, known brand ([url= http://www.thelightbulbshop.co.uk/Shop/LightBulbs/EnergySavingBulbs/Product/2278/DC5BC/DuluxELClassic.aspx ]Osram Dulux EL Classic - £6.73 from lightbulbshop[/url]). It is nice warm light, but it just isn't bright enough.
Graham - You're surely not saying the 20W isn't bright enough...
recommended replacements:
25W with a 5W
35W with a 7W
50W with a 10W
60W with a 11W
75W with a 15W
100W with a 20W
We have energy saving bulbs, some are pretty instant light, the others are over a couple of minutes to warm up.
Quite annoying as I usually only turn the main light on to find something, then it goes off again. Having to wait 2-5 minutes for it to warm up and then turn it off seems stupid.
[b]Who said they are 10p?[/b]
I think it depends on the type of bulb you are after, show me an R50 spot lamp for 10p, or even a £1.. We have 16 of these with an average price of £10, thats £160 on light bulbs!!! 😯
I'm happy to use the energy saving bulbs, as long as they don't cost silly money, which for certain bulbs they do.
will1 i have sorted those bulbs for you.
they are only of use in the loo where at 3am you dont get blinded by a light when you let the pressure off your bladder.
otherwise horrid things and emit large levels of EMI which cannot be good for you.
I actually now wear a TJTin Foil Enterprises 54-61 EC Non Approved Helmet to protect my neural pathways from these evil evil death waves.
Graham - You're surely not saying the 20W isn't bright enough...
It's the 15w one we have, which is [i]supposed[/i] to be equivalent to 75w incandescent.
It's more like 30w if you ask me - not bright enough to read comfortably with.
otherwise horrid things and emit large levels of EMI which cannot be good for you
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applies only to androids and cyborgs
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I'm doing a study of incandescents vs CFLs at the moment.
Colour wise, some modern CFLs are capable of 2700K, which is warm on the correlated colour chart and only 100K away from the GLS lamps.
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Incandescesents only emit 5% of energy as light. Almost obscene really.
But then CFLs only manage around 20%, some LEDs now are 25% ish....perhaps we should stay in the dark until something reaches 50% or so?
some LEDs now are 25% ish
do you mean experimental organics LEDs ?
Mrs. Starship picked up 5 x 11W (eq. 60W) from Morrisons today for 20p!
Now that is cheap.