Re: Incandescent Bulb Ban -- Motion Detector Fixtures, Poto cell fixtures and other exotic applications

terry wrote:
On Jan 19, 12:24 am, t...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
1. Outdoor Motion Detector Fixtures.

A. I have six (6) of these in various locations around my house.
Five are for
pairs of the standard "flood light" type incandescent bulbs. They
all work fine with incandescent
bulbs. Not a single one will work at all when I replace the
incandescent bulbs with
outdoor fluorescent bulbs.

I don't understand why they wouldn't work unless it's just too cold
for the fluorescents to start up.

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I have to agree with the OP, regulations should not be made that will
cause problesm with existing hardware.

I don't think they will.


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Using CFLs outside does make sense; any 'wasted' heat out there merely
heats the night air! But so far our experience with fairly cheap CFLs
in temperatures down to about minus 10 C has not been too good. My
neighbour has used them but I notice he retains one or two
incandescents near his front door; maybe doesn't want to get sued if
someone stumbles?

I've used two CFLs (11 watts) outside for years with no problem to ease
access for visitors and constant dusk to dawn illumination of our cars in
the drive to deter possible thefts.

This CFL business is a good ide perhaps for an instance saving/
reduction in electcity consumption in some cases but not everyone
should be jumping on the bandwagon without understanding the number.

BTW just drove into this small Arabian Gulf capital city at night,
over 50 miles of highway, light traffic, brightly lit with double lamp
standard every couple of hundred feet. All electricity here generated
by burning fossil fuel; hell they pump it and refine it! Gasoline at
the pumps here is 23 cents per litre, about one dollar per US gallon.
Hundreds of miles of highways and roads with street lamps burning all
night, around the world; much of the electrcity generated by oil,
coal, etc. Why?????

On the Right side of The Pond, our gas costs $2.10 per UK gallon!


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