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How can I lighten up? I'm almost incandescent!
Philips low energy bulbs
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Crankarm
Guru
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- Nr Cambridge
Earlier this year Dunelm were doing 10 for 50p. I have several large boxes of them, enough to see me to the end probably or from space if I put them all on at the same time. Low energy bulbs are actually very dodgy to dispose of as they need specialist disposal containing mercury unlike the tungsten bulbs they have replaced. Every one knows mercury is seriously toxic so why put it in low energy bulbs .............
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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Metal Halide! Were you discharged from the institution, or LED out?
Edit: Sorry, Crankarm, that was directed at the Doctor, not you. Cross post.
Edit: Sorry, Crankarm, that was directed at the Doctor, not you. Cross post.
Crankarm
Guru
- Location
- Nr Cambridge
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Crankarm
Guru
- Location
- Nr Cambridge
You won, you can stop now!
Our local recycling centre will collect old low energy bulbs. But there needs to be a better solution as they become more and more widely used.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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- lost somewhere
You don't get off so easily Crankarm...they have a life of 10 thousand hours (yeah, right) , and run and run.
Keith Oates
Janner
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- Penarth, Wales
A running light bulb, that's novel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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- lost somewhere
Oh well, we all burn out and end up in landfill somewhere.
DrSquirrel
Guest
If you want a dimmer light, just get a lamp with a lower powered bulb. Sorted.
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
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- Northumberland
On one forum last week a 'designer' was asking how to calculate the size and capacity of batteries required to run solar powered lights to illuminate his house at night.... you couldn't make it up!
beanzontoast
Guru
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- South of The Peaks
It is amazing though to think that in the 'olden days' of the last decade you only needed to have half a dozen lights on around the house to rack up 600W an hour at least. Now those same lights would come in at about 60-80W in total depending on what you use where in the house.
And yet the size of the electricity bill doesn't seem to get much better. Hate to think what it would be without those low energy bulbs.
And yet the size of the electricity bill doesn't seem to get much better. Hate to think what it would be without those low energy bulbs.
Hacienda71
Mancunian in self imposed exile in leafy Cheshire
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- Wilmslow, Cheshire
Don't Solar powered lights rely on batteries being charged in the day time to power the light in the hours of darkness when solar cells are rendundant, or am i missing something.
coz the companies signed up to deals where they had to reduce consumption.
rather than do anything expensive ( which would upset the shareholders) like investment, they instead sent bulbs out to the customers..
iirc, the gov gave them until dec 2009 to stop doing this,, which is why they sent a load out before the deadline
.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...mped-200-million-unwanted-eco-lightbulbs.html
i think now you have to ask for them..
