[Elecraft] OT: mercury

[Jim Miller]

I seldom break any bulb, in fact I can't remember the last time I did. I 
can't see why I would break a CFL any more frequently.

My main objection to the several I have installed in my house is that they 
take several minutes to come up to full output. Not terribly useful in a 
passageway.

I've got several installed in the basement in place of the 100W bulbs I was 
using there to get sufficient light. Typical weenie builder only put one 
lighting circuit in the basement and also sourced the sump pump from it. 
Needless to say the breaker pops at the most inconvenient time leaving me 
stumbling around in the pitchblackness. The improved efficiency of the CFLs 
now gives me the needed light without rewiring the basement and without 
popping the breaker.

Of course the same building codes that allow this sort of corner-cutting 
wiring also require a licensed electrician to do more than change a 
lightbulb in Baltimore county. Talk about a racket...

jim (looking forward to led lights at affordable prices...)
ab3cv