Re: CFL's and X-10
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Posted by Robert L Bass on June 30, 2008, 11:24 am
Please log in for more thread options OK, I stand corrected. > My complaints on CFLs are:
> > SLOW STARTUP > Really a problem for areas that I am in for a short period of time. > A pain in the butt for rooms that I will be in for longer periods but have > to endure low light for a significant time. > > LACK OF DIMMABILITY > There are rooms where I want different levels of light depending on the > activity. On those we agree. I just get a little tired of the BG's anti-CFL rant which tends to go above and beyond. -- Regards, Robert L Bass ==============================>
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Posted by Petem on June 29, 2008, 10:56 am
Please log in for more thread options groupe de discussion : _6OdnVFvFbwXrvrVnZ2dnUVZ_r7inZ2d@giganews.com... > "Tom Stiller" wrote:
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> Don't trust anything he says and, more importantly, beware of everything > he does. aint that most of asa people say about you? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Robert Green on July 17, 2008, 10:05 am
Please log in for more thread options Mr. Bass wrote:
> I don't know where RG gets his CFL's but I've used them for some time and
> have not seen a single one give off any odor at all. What were you drinking or smoking when you last *saw* an odor? (-: Good sense tells me to stop here because you're obviously torqued up about *something* totally unrelated to the technical issues under discussion. The CFL smokey burnout problem is real. Educate yourself: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=CFL+smoked+burned There's a nice picture of several "burnouts" here: http://www.execulink.com/~impact/commercial_electric_cfl_EDXO23.htm We've bought roughly 50 CFL bulbs and 2 of them have burned out rather violently, just like the bulbs pictured above. That's about a 4% fiery failure rate as opposed to a zero rate for tungsten bulbs. We've never had an incandescent bulb fill the room with enough acrid smoke to make us think there was a serious electrical fire. That honor belongs solely to CFL's. -- Bobby G. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Robert L Bass on July 20, 2008, 11:51 pm
Please log in for more thread options "Robert Green" wrote:
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>> I don't know where RG gets his CFL's but I've used them for some time and
>> have not seen a single one give off any odor at all. >
> What were you drinking or smoking when you last *saw* an odor? (-: It's called an idiom. We use them in the English language. > Good sense tells me to stop here...
Don't let that stop you. > because you're obviously torqued up about
> *something* totally unrelated to the technical > issues under discussion. > The CFL smokey burnout problem is real. Educate yourself: I use them. So far no smoke. > We've bought roughly 50 CFL bulbs...
Given your vehement opposition to CFLs, I doubt that. -- Regards, Robert L Bass ==============================>
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Posted by Petem on June 28, 2008, 9:17 pm
Please log in for more thread options dont expect a truthfull answer from bAss
discussion : tomstiller-F43155.18362328062008@news.verizon.net... >
>> Did you expect to get an accurate, fact-based assessment out of that
>> character? >
> did he say something that was factually incorrect? > > -- > Tom Stiller > > PGP fingerprint = 5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3 7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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> No, that IS the official policy for CFLs.
> It is basically the same as for thermometers.
> It is not that difficult.