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

[Ed White]

How about the new LED units lots olight less power but they will also 
noise up. I have one that will noise up 0n 144 MHZ. anybody have 
problems wit LED's
Ed
WA3BZT


On 12/30/2010 4:51 PM, Glen Zook wrote:
> 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.
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> --- On Thu, 12/30/10, WA5CAB at cs.com<WA5CAB at cs.com>  wrote:
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> 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. 
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