[TVI-RFI-EMI] [RFI] CFLs and LEDs

[Lefczik, Larry D]

Do what 95% on people do.  Throw them in the trash.  

 

Sure, we may save the world from global warming, but the ground water
will be un-drinkable.  (Maybe we can drink from the melting ice caps
:-))

 

 

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[mailto:tvi-rfi-emi-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Dale Martin
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 5:55 PM
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Subject: Re: [TVI-RFI-EMI] [RFI] CFLs and LEDs

 

Paul, 

 

I expected better of you than that....tut...tut...tut

 

 

Where did you buy your CFL's?  

 

Check with them and see if they don't take in dead CFL's for recycling. 

 

Home Depot does. 

 

http://www6.homedepot.com/ecooptions/index.html?

 

73,

dale, kg5u

 

 

 

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PaulKB8N at aol.com
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 12:23 PM
To: ingraham.ma.ultranet at rcn.com; rfi at contesting.com;
tvi-rfi-emi at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [TVI-RFI-EMI] [RFI] CFLs and LEDs

Andy,

 

I've started accumulating burned out CFLs whose lifetime was far less
than what was advertised.  I'm inclined to put them in a box and mail
them to Congress and let them figure out how to dispose of them.

 

Paul, k5AF

 

In a message dated 2/1/2009 11:23:22 A.M. Central Standard Time,
ingraham.ma.ultranet at rcn.com writes:

	I've enjoyed the discussions about compact fluorescents, even if
they
	sometimes digressed from the topic of RFI.
	
	Another resource I just came across, which others might enjoy
too, is:
	
	http://members.misty.com/don/index.html
	and some of the pages under it, including:
	http://members.misty.com/don/f-lamp.html (Sam's F-Lamp FAQ)
	http://members.misty.com/don/cfapp.html (where to use / not use
CFLs)
	etc.
	
	I only just scanned a little, but it looks to have a lot of
helpful
	information about CFLs, why some brands go bad, etc.  RFI is
mentioned, but
	not extensively.
	
	Also there's some info. about bright LEDs too.
	
	(FYI, I have now concluded that "Lights of America" should be
avoided at all
	costs.  We just had a non-compact fluorescent fixture of theirs
go bad, and
	it appears to be the ballast, which may be a failure mode of
many of their
	non-compact fluorescents.  My personal experience with a couple
other LOA
	lamps has been similarly poor.  This fixture got maybe a few
hundred hours
	total use, but is no longer under warranty, and the model is
discontinued.
	Home Depot apparently stopped carrying LOA because of their
lousy
	lifetimes.)
	
	Andy
	
	
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