A few months ago, I tried to use a compact fluorescent bulb in the lamp that sits next to my computer. After a few hours of sitting in its light, my eyes began to itch, get watery and turn red. After a couple of days of enduring this, I went back to an incandescent bulb and have been fine since then. I will never again use a compact fluorescent bulb. End of story.
The government should not be in the business of mandating the purchase of products that have adverse effects on consumers.
Oh, and life should be fair.
I have a question.......
All those teeny tiny little lights that light up all over my computer system, there are dozens of them,
on plugged in memory stick, on PC tower, on-switch of monitor, row of them on the cable modem, a row of them on the router, the telephone, the printer, the scanner, the speakers, I could go on and on.
What kind of bulbs are they? Will they be outlawed along with the regular light bulbs or are they going to make teeny tiny little fluorescent bulbs for them too?
A year ago, I tried 6 CF lights in my basement. The goofball kids always leave the lights on, so I figured it might save me from having to go down and change them all the time.
Bulbs lasted about a month. I didn’t realize it at the time, but CF’s can’t be put on lamps with dimmer switches.
Does that mean in the UK, dimmer switches are a residual casualty of this ordeal?