Re: OT Compact Fluorescent light bulbs?

> N8N <njnagel@xxxxxxxxxxx> said
>> 2) my inner engineer likes the greater efficiency and longer life.

Bulb life seems to depend on where they're installed. Mine don't seem
to last any longer than regular light bulbs.

As for efficiency -- that's only important if you have no use for the
"waste" heat that regular bulbs generate. If it's cold enough that your
heater is running, then the heat isn't really a waste at all.

Paul. wrote:
> Recently, I replaced the sockets in a couple of lamps from three-way to
> one-way to accomodate CF bulbs and I noted that the lamp shades help
> reduce some of the harshness in the light.

Both one-way bulbs and CFs work just fine in three-way sockets. Just get
used to the on-on-off-off switching behavior.
.

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