[XCSSA] Solar and Green events in SA

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On May 15, 2007, at 7:59 AM, xcssa-admin@xcssa.org wrote:

> xcssa-admin@xcssa.org wrote:
>> First, those CF light bulbs last a lot longer than incandescents,  
>> so the mercury issue isn't as bad as it might seem at first. I  
>> think I've only had to replace one or two (in two houses) that  
>> died early. The few that made too much noise just got swapped to  
>> locations where the noise didn't matter.
>
> Probably wandering way off topic here, but as an early adopter of  
> CF bulbs, I've probably gone through 10-15 in the past 5 years,  
> either through manufacturing defects, brown outs (those will really  
> kill off CFs), or by accident (my mother-in-law used the dimmer for  
> one of our fixtures, which I have since removed).  Even last week a  
> 24W CF burned out in my hallway that was only there for 2 years,  
> and I was quite lucky it didn't start a fire (the plastic housing  
> was all brown and melted).
> Nick

Then you must be buying the wrong brand. I get the cheap spiral 15W  
bulbs from Home Depot, and on a Slashdot thread a while ago, it was  
looking like those really do seem to be some of the better bulbs.  
Noisy bulbs and dying bulbs are rare among them, and they don't slow- 
start.

  - Bruce -