[Boatanchors] Replacing 866s with 3B28s thread drift to CFLs

[oldradio at comcast.net]

Not all CFL's are created equal.  

The ones sold locally - about half fail in less than a year at my QTH.  Of course we turn them out when sleeping and when no one is in the room, perhaps this is why?

73, John Dilks, K2TQN


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Kulow" <edison1946 at gmail.com>
To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 10:22:58 AM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Replacing 866s with 3B28s thread drift to CFLs

I volunteer at a national park.  One of my jobs, when I'm not doing 
computer network installation, is changing light bulbs.  The park went 
over to CFLs over 10 years ago.  They run 10 hours/day, 365 days a 
year.  Average life under these conditions is about 5 years.  We were 
lucky to get 6 months out of incandescents.

73
Bob WA2UEH
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