[Hallicrafters] Spiral Fluorescants

[Bill MacLane]

CFL discussion is a bit off topic, but the old ones made in USA were better lasted longer and were quieter than the ones we now are forced to buy from China, but they all contain mercury.  Which is worse?  Using a bit of electricity or poisoning the earth with Mercury?

Although I have not had much RFI from the one on my shack table ( about 3 ft from my Tx/Rx) I still like incandescents.


73,
Bill
AI4WM


--- On Mon, 12/8/08, TC Dailey <daileyservices at qwest.net> wrote:

> From: TC Dailey <daileyservices at qwest.net>
> Subject: [Hallicrafters] Spiral Fluorescants
> To: hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Monday, December 8, 2008, 10:00 PM
> I will not allow those pieces of junk into my house.  They
> create MASSIVE amounts of broadband noise, which my
> "pretty good" noiseblankers cannot remove.  As a
> result of the Government's STUFFING these pieces
> du'junque down our throats, the wife and I bought 3
> cases of GOOD ol' tungsten light bulbs, which do NOT
> create such noise.  By the by, the new bulbs DO NOT save as
> much energy as you would think.  The transformer runs rather
> HOT, so that quite a bit of energy is wasted in USELESS
> HEAT, as opposed to USEFUL heat, which I recover in the
> shop.
> 
> Thanks but no thanks.
> 
> TCD 
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