Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for March 09, 2013

CFL

I turn on the switches about five minutes before my on-line meetings. Both the light levels and I are ready at the same time.

I hate slow bulbs.

I have dispensed with those junk bulbs and moved on to the LED type. Instant light, and very little power consumption!

But when I have an idea, I still like to use the 20th century incandescent type with clear glass!

Like getting older – our once incandescent brain gets replaced by CFL-like synapses. No wonder it’s a pain to think, you have to go through fifty shades of gray to see the light.

Arianne… fifty shades of gr…..um… is there something else you’d like to share….?

Edison would be so proud…

brilliant….almost.

With LED’s, the CFL is already obsolete.

Ah yes..an idea comes to light for Arlo….

I will try those LED bulbs when the power company gives me some like they did those CFL’s

The bad part was since the pc is guaranteed a certain profit, they increase their rates to make up for the decrease in their customer’s electricity usage!!

http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2013/03/09/bay-bridge-lights-san-francisco-like-never-before/1rUwBiHy8gUaaWApKpTnHI/story.html

The CFLs may save energy, but in my experience they don’t last anywhere near as long as they claimed. Already replaced about a dozen and only have about 20 in use here. The one LED is still going strong.

my senior brain/memory is like the CFL bulb, it takes it a while to warm up and finally remember something. lolI HATE THOSE BULBS………)))))scream(((((

Tomorrow his bulb will light up an hour later.

And if you check the history of CFLs, the environazis were strangely silent on the mercury used in these bulbs until they were mandated by law. I’m just waiting for the lawsuits to break out.

CFLOL

The funny thing here is that the power company with the Nuke plant up the road is the much more expensive of the two services in the area, and asks for price hikes more often…

Those screwy bulbs drive me nuts. Slow to come on, and the buzzing is so annoying. Plus, they emit the same wave length as the sun, and you can get a burn if you sit too close to them. Not to mention being a bio-hazard. Some improvement!

When buying LED bulbs, be sure to check the amount of lumens they put out. Modern LEDs can light a room quite capably, but there are still some being sold out there that are barely brighter than a night light. Good LEDs are a great investment. Bad LEDs are a waste of money and will turn people off of a great product.

For a while I had CFLs installed in the bedroom specifically because they would not turn on fully bright first thing in the morning. Then I got tired of that and switched to LEDs.

Arlo should go LED Lamps.No mercury, instant on and very efficient.Don’t go for the no name, go with the Ph*ll*ps brand.

The light wouldn’t have been that bright without a regular, incandescent bulb. I just put a new “100 w” one in my house, in the same room as one with a 100 w old one, and they are NOT the same! There is no way I can read under the new bulb. And the 72 w, calling itself a 100 w “equivalent” is no better.I want my 100 w incandescent bulbs. My family reads a lot, and they are the only things to give off enough light.

Not all CFLs are slow. We have some in the bathroom that hit full brightness almost immediately. There is a number on the bulbs that will give an idea of how fast they are, but I can’t remember which one or how to decipher it.

Can anyone help?

do tell Arlo!

JJ is behind the times, the newer CFLs reach full brightness almost instantaneously.

I have had them since they were available. CFLs start as fast as incandescents and I have have only had one burn out. I am using the old incadescents in short-term applications like closets until they are used up, but then on to LEDs.

OK, I wasn’t going to post my CFL tale…but now I have to….

So far, I want to like them, but I hate them, and this is why:

About ten years ago, I replaced the 60 watt incandescent in a lamp with a supposedly “75-watt equivalent” CFL.

I could barely read by it, and then one night it burst into 6" high flames, and caught the lampshade on fire.I pulled the plug and threw my lap blanket over it….and it quickly went out.But the bulb was burnt black, and fused, and the lamp was ruined.Had I not been home, and sitting right there…. So…I refused to try them again till a few months ago, in spite of reassurances about newer ones.A new clip lamp had come with a free 60 watt equivalent (supposedly) CFL, so I used it…I didn’t realise how much eyestrain it was causing till I just replaced it with a 40 watt incandescent and breathed a sigh of relief.

Night-Gaunt49: Yes. The rule of thumb for auditorium temperature setting is one person equals a 100 w incandescent in heat radiation.

BTW, CFC bulbs are the same as the tube flourescents. BAD for the environment. Just say NO to Algore

Yeah, they do take forever to light fully.