I bought some CFL floodlights for a fixture that is on for hours every night.
It takes forever for them to get to decent output. And they don’t have the output of the bulbs they are supposed to replace. I hate them.
I use CFLs but find myself drifting back to the old incandescent. The slow output and supposed long life of CFLs have been a big disappointment.
In my experience the candelabra, globe style CFLs last no longer than an incandescent, maybe less.
As far a LEDs. Way too expensive and no energy savings over the CFLs.
Plus the diode may last for 10,000 hrs. or more but there is a lot of electronics in those bulbs that could fail.
I’ll wait for a while.
LED bulbs are more efficient than the CFL’s.
Go ahead and unscrew a CFL when it’s on. It’ll be hot, and you probably won’t do that again.
LED’s are only slightly warm enough to even notice.
Not trying to be an apologist for the leftist nitwits. But the LED’s will make incandescent and CFL both obsolete.
Not ready for prime time yet, but they will. What’s ironic is, once people start really switching over, people will start using their heaters more, because of that.
A bright side though, in places like Texas, in summer.
Same experience here — the CFLs I’ve had have lasted about as long as incandescents. I don’t think they handle cycling very well. That is, if you just leave them turned on they’ll last forever, but turning them on and off with any regularity kills them quickly. That’s true of incandescents too, but I wonder if it’s even more true of CFLs.