[Elecraft] OT: mercury

[Brett gazdzinski]

Different brands work better then others.
Some can pulse, some have to warm up, some don't
work in the cold.

The ones that home depot sells seem good, you can get spotlights, 
3 way bulbs, little versions, yellow bug lamps, etc.

Save your receipts, some blow out in short order, but if they
work for 10 minutes, they usually last years.

The last few years I have gone big-time into LED xmass lights.
You can run thousands of those things all December for about
45 cents!


Brett


 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
> [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jim Miller
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 9:59 AM
> To: Thom LaCosta; waltk8cv4612amos at att.net
> Cc: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: mercury
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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