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Post #266,354
by Meerkat
8/30/06 2:18:26 AM
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New Are they seriously known as 'ice cream cone bulbs'?!
Sheesh!

Anyway. I think the cheaper the globe, the worse the colour spectrum given out. There are lots of places giving away Compact Flourescents at the moment (primarily I think because they get a government rebate for doing so). But from the free globes I have seen, the light they cast is very cold.

All the lights in my house are flourescent, and the light looks fine to me. One of the older one takes a second to start, but the rest of them are instant.

A few weeks ago I had to replace my first Compact Flourescent light...which I bought in 1995.
Two out of three people wonder where the other one is.
Post #266,363
by Andrew Grygus
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8/30/06 10:04:00 AM
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New I haven't heard that name used, but . . .
. . it's quite reasonable. We used to have a lot of drive up places that made a cone of soft whipped ice cream turned out into a swirl like that. Dairy Queen, I think.

For myself, I've replaced 5 CFs in the three sockets I have them in. They don't last forever but they do last a few years each.

I have one low wattage incandescent from a hall fixture that ran 30 years that I know of and who knows how long before that. I still have it but I pulled it when I changed the fixture.
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     Walmart to do something good?!? - (SpiceWare) - (17) - Aug. 29, 2006, 05:18:25 PM EDT
         Also use them here and there, but . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - Aug. 29, 2006, 05:24:50 PM EDT
             Tried some - wasn't impressed - (SpiceWare) - Aug. 29, 2006, 05:36:18 PM EDT
         Every bulb in my apt. is flourescent... -NT - (imric) - Aug. 29, 2006, 05:33:03 PM EDT
         I use them... - (Yendor) - Aug. 29, 2006, 05:36:56 PM EDT
         Every time a bulb burns out I replace with fluorescent - (admin) - (1) - Aug. 29, 2006, 05:40:33 PM EDT
             Me too. - (pwhysall) - Aug. 30, 2006, 02:51:50 AM EDT
         Stupid question - (Simon_Jester) - (5) - Aug. 29, 2006, 05:53:10 PM EDT
             I think you would need a wall wart for each - (hnick) - (2) - Aug. 29, 2006, 06:04:57 PM EDT
                 Nope... the way things are going... - (folkert) - (1) - Aug. 29, 2006, 07:33:15 PM EDT
                     Way cool, sounds nifty. Thanks for the info. - (hnick) - Aug. 30, 2006, 08:16:32 AM EDT
             CF are still more efficient. - (Another Scott) - (1) - Aug. 29, 2006, 06:22:43 PM EDT
                 CF colour. - (static) - Aug. 30, 2006, 03:08:56 AM EDT
         We have several, too. - (Steve Lowe) - Aug. 29, 2006, 05:56:39 PM EDT
         Something doesn't add up - (drewk) - (1) - Aug. 29, 2006, 07:29:34 PM EDT
             I think it's something like this. - (Another Scott) - Aug. 29, 2006, 08:36:55 PM EDT
         Are they seriously known as 'ice cream cone bulbs'?! - (Meerkat) - (1) - Aug. 30, 2006, 02:18:26 AM EDT
             I haven't heard that name used, but . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - Aug. 30, 2006, 10:04:00 AM EDT

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