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Herbert Dawrs
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Apr 24, 2009
Hilo, Hawaii
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Hilo, Hawaii
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CFL Life in High Humidity
Apr 24, 2009
We live in a high humidity area of Hilo where CFL's do not last. A Circline 9" costs $8.35 and lasted 30 days.
The life of 'old-style' ballasts for 4' two-bulb shop lights was good. The new electronic ballasts are uniformly bad. Of 6 new fixtures from ACE Hardware, 2 were bad out of the box, and the other 4 have failed.
We are getting mixed results from the screw-in base spirals, but generally good. I suspect the base-to-glass seal is better, and not having two plugs with four contacts each has to be better than the circline type. But having to either trash 5 rather expensive circline ceiling fixtures plus bulbs is not conservation. I have been able to convert one circline to accept the spiral base bulbs, so all is not lost.
I am interested in your comments.
Herb
The life of 'old-style' ballasts for 4' two-bulb shop lights was good. The new electronic ballasts are uniformly bad. Of 6 new fixtures from ACE Hardware, 2 were bad out of the box, and the other 4 have failed.
We are getting mixed results from the screw-in base spirals, but generally good. I suspect the base-to-glass seal is better, and not having two plugs with four contacts each has to be better than the circline type. But having to either trash 5 rather expensive circline ceiling fixtures plus bulbs is not conservation. I have been able to convert one circline to accept the spiral base bulbs, so all is not lost.
I am interested in your comments.
Herb
Comments (1)
Apr 25, 2009
Olin Lagon said...
Hi Herb, good point on high humidity. I have ordered a bunch of dimmable CFLs and will be running tests on them and later post a video review. I don't know much about operating CFLs in high humidity but will take some time to read up. I'll pass this on to some friends and hopefully get a response.
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