"Fanny by Gaslight"......
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Recieved some free 'low energy' light bulbs from our electricity supplier recently, so when the regular light bulb in our bedroom blew the other day, I decided to fit the new bulb, apparantly rated at 40 Watts (equivalent). Seems I can save both money and the planet by using them.....
For Feks sake, when you turn these things on they give off virtually no light!!! What the fek use are they? Its like going back to he 'dark ages' (literally) when people only had a candle to see by at night!!! Is this the best they can do?? I cant beleive the government is going to ban the sale of regualar light bulbs soon - have they even fitted these bulbs to Number 10 Downing street? If they had, surely they could see that they just dont work properly unless you leave the light on permanantly? And even then, theres no way these bulbs actually give out the amount of light they are allegedly rated for.
Progress? I dont think so. Must stock up on regular light bulbs now, other wise the future us decidedly gloomy...
For Feks sake, when you turn these things on they give off virtually no light!!! What the fek use are they? Its like going back to he 'dark ages' (literally) when people only had a candle to see by at night!!! Is this the best they can do?? I cant beleive the government is going to ban the sale of regualar light bulbs soon - have they even fitted these bulbs to Number 10 Downing street? If they had, surely they could see that they just dont work properly unless you leave the light on permanantly? And even then, theres no way these bulbs actually give out the amount of light they are allegedly rated for.
Progress? I dont think so. Must stock up on regular light bulbs now, other wise the future us decidedly gloomy...
The equivalent values are optomistic at best and they take a couple of minutes to reach full brightness.
A 40w incandescent bulb is not the brightest thing in the world to start with and you certainly wouldn't want to be reading by it. A "40w equivalent" energy saving bulb probably puts out as much light as a 25w incandescent, I'd suggest looking at getting the next rating up when replacing an incandescent with an energy saving bulb (e.g. 100w equiv to replace a 60w). Still uses a lot less energy (if your electricity bill matters to you) and lasts massively longer.
I don't subscribe to saving the planet, I do subscribe to reducing my electric bill and not needing to replace ligthbulbs all the bleeding time.
A 40w incandescent bulb is not the brightest thing in the world to start with and you certainly wouldn't want to be reading by it. A "40w equivalent" energy saving bulb probably puts out as much light as a 25w incandescent, I'd suggest looking at getting the next rating up when replacing an incandescent with an energy saving bulb (e.g. 100w equiv to replace a 60w). Still uses a lot less energy (if your electricity bill matters to you) and lasts massively longer.
I don't subscribe to saving the planet, I do subscribe to reducing my electric bill and not needing to replace ligthbulbs all the bleeding time.
I'm not trying to defend ugly monstrosity energy saving bulbs (surely that's a lifetime ban in these parts?) but I think the free ones that come in the post are the older, slower ones, (and normally feckin massive too!) I think the more modern styled ones are a bit better. you only have to wait 7 hrs for it to warm up and kick out light, instead of 14.
I have a mix of energy saving and normal bulbs in my house.
The bathroom and ceiling lights all have normal bulbs though as these are only normally on for short periods of time and I want a bright light straight away.
Lights which stay on most of the time though, such as the lamps in the living room and bedroom, have energy savers as the long warm up time and slightly lower light levels do not matter here.
Strikes a good balance in my eyes!
The bathroom and ceiling lights all have normal bulbs though as these are only normally on for short periods of time and I want a bright light straight away.
Lights which stay on most of the time though, such as the lamps in the living room and bedroom, have energy savers as the long warm up time and slightly lower light levels do not matter here.
Strikes a good balance in my eyes!
All the fittings that can take these bulbs have them in my house. I don't however use anything less than the 60W equivalent's and the Newer ones are better than the older. I would not ever have considered the 40W except in multiple fittings. I would personally avoid the ones sold by a large Scandinavian furniture outlet as most go very quickly and take the breaker with them. The GE and Philips ones are pretty good and have been used since we moved house 7 or 8 years ago.
Sheets Tabuer said:
To be fair if you put an ordinary 40 watt bulb in your living room I doubt you will see anything.
They're a nightmare as you get older and you need tons more light to be able to read (think I read it's 10x at 60yrs vs 16yrs).One of our electronics suppliers has components for cfl's to make them come on at full brightness (even at low temperatures) but it would add to the cost so no-one is interested.
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