I have a friend whose house caught fire from a CFL. The fire inspector told him CFLs are dangerous.
I have a friend whose house caught fire from a CFL. The fire inspector told him CFLs are dangerous.
Funny, that. Every CFL I have replaced (with an edison) had brown or blackened plastic at the base. One was warped because the plastic had softened; another actually sparked and burned.
I’m back on edison bulbs until LED bulbs come down in price. At the moment Home Depot has LED floodlights (CFLs are useless in the cold) are three times the price of quartz halogen outdoor floods.
As well, edison bulbs stand up better to the power outages/surges we see fairly frequently than CFLs do. Want to bet LED bulbs will have the same fragility CFLs do? (Not the LED themselves, the circuitry needed to step down 120VAC to 5VDC.)