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

[Glen Zook]

Not that I am a big fan of the CFLs.  However, I get them for less than $2 each at Lowe's and Home Depot in packages of 4 and 6.  They are, of course, made off shore.  However, I don't have any problems with noise from them.

Glen, K9STH

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--- On Thu, 12/30/10, WA5CAB at cs.com <WA5CAB at cs.com> wrote:

OK.  But the CFL still comes out badly on the short end of the stick cost wise.  For $8.65 you can buy 4 to 12 of the incandescent ones.  And each one lasts 4 to 8 times as long.  Even if the electricity required to operate the CFL were free, there is no cost benefit.  Add in the mercury, possible RFI (which I didn't actually notice but I didn't look for it, either) and 4X to 8X replacement labor and you get negative benefit.