I just looked at them recently and noticed that some come with mercury and
some don't. It seems the more expensive lights do not have mercury in them.
It just seems like anything that is healthy for you always costs more.
Gary, N7HTS
On Thu, 17 May 2007 10:06:44 -0400
Brett gazdzinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Different brands work better then others.
Some can pulse, some have to warm up, some don't
work in the cold.
The ones that home depot sells seem good, you can get spotlights,
3 way bulbs, little versions, yellow bug lamps, etc.
Save your receipts, some blow out in short order, but if they
work for 10 minutes, they usually last years.
The last few years I have gone big-time into LED xmass lights.
You can run thousands of those things all December for about
45 cents!
Brett
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Miller
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 9:59 AM
To: Thom LaCosta; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: mercury
I seldom break any bulb, in fact I can't remember the last
time I did. I
can't see why I would break a CFL any more frequently.
My main objection to the several I have installed in my house
is that they
take several minutes to come up to full output. Not terribly
useful in a
passageway.
I've got several installed in the basement in place of the
100W bulbs I was
using there to get sufficient light. Typical weenie builder
only put one
lighting circuit in the basement and also sourced the sump
pump from it.
Needless to say the breaker pops at the most inconvenient
time leaving me
stumbling around in the pitchblackness. The improved
efficiency of the CFLs
now gives me the needed light without rewiring the basement
and without
popping the breaker.
Of course the same building codes that allow this sort of
corner-cutting
wiring also require a licensed electrician to do more than change a
lightbulb in Baltimore county. Talk about a racket...
jim (looking forward to led lights at affordable prices...)
ab3cv
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