Posted on 12/13/2013 11:13:59 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
I have a friend whose house burned and the fire was started by a CFL. The insurance fire inspector told him it happens quite often.
Read what you said where?
If so, I'm in power. I have the loft in my shed lined with boxes of them and that's after I gave away some to my 4 adult children. It pays to have a big storage area.
Not only that, it’s starting to look like if you replace one of the incandescents on a circuit with a lot of burnouts with an LED, it protects the others from burning out so much. I have an LED going on three years in a high use area and it’s happy as a clam.
LED is the wave of the future. My church relamped with LED’s and cut the electric bill by around 70%.
I wrote and article a year or so called “ the shocking truth about fluorescents”. Or something like that. See if its still around
Ill repost if needed
Just know these things are filled with mercury vapor like25-40 mg for a tube and 5-20mg or more for a stupid cfl made in china
The max exposure limit is .000002 mg per m3
And even you don’t break them.
The product of energizing mercury gas is ultraviolet light. So they are really black lights with phosphor coatings to mask
You need a ballast to start and so the light doesn’t blow up
Current is 60hz. Tubes all flicker at 120hz.
CFls flicker at very high frequency. 25000 60000hz and do not have good UV filters like tubes
CFls are VERY harmful in operation to sensitive people
Rashes. Headaches. Numerous issues
The light is also not steady at all
So 75 and 100W are still going to be available?
Correct.
There are loop-holes. I believe “rough service” bulbs are exempt.
“Fluorescent light is BETTER?”
That statement can’t be supported with facts.
As such, this law, and your statement are bogus.”
Says you and your opinion. Daylight CFLs burn just fine and give off good light. The amount of mercury in a CFL is minimal. I’m not worried about that in the slightest. Been using CFLs since they came on the market. There haven’t been incandescent bulbs in my house for about 15 years, probably since you were in diapers.
Opinions on quality of light are not a fact based item anyway so that’s a bit retarded to say “can be supported with facts”.
“LED, fluorescent, or incandescent”
Depends on the bulb I’d guess. Different manufacturers have different engineering techniques behind them such as frequency of the light and the wavelength, which makes for either a terrible bulb or a great one.
“Weighs 200 g”
Define ‘g’, which usually means grams, because there certainly isn’t 200 grams of Mercury in a light bulb.
“They put out all kinds of RF noise that plays havoc with radios.”
So do some LED bulbs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg3p3cCrKOM
Look carefully they are 100 watts at 130 volts.
Mathematically, they should be 92 watts at 120 volts (normal house power). I have measured thier actual wattage with a digital watt meter, and they average 88 watts.
This does not mean they aren't worth having, just be aware that they are not as bright as the 100 watt bulbs you are used to.
Black light makes my Velvet Unicorn and Elvis paintings look really cool.
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