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Incandescent bulb vs Compact Fluorescent some basic questions

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Ken Layton:

--- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on July 17, 2009, 08:55:51 pm ---Buy 'em up now, because come 2012, you can't buy the incandescent bulbs in the US anymore. Stupid "go green" ---smurf-poop---....

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That only applies to incandescent light bulbs commonly used in household light fixtures and it applies to 40 watts and up bulb sizes. Special application incandescents, miniature lamps, audio-visual "projection" lamps, germicidal & hospital lamps, etc are exempt.

DJ_Izumi:

--- Quote from: Dr Zero on July 17, 2009, 08:23:58 pm ---Now let me preface this by saying I know there are other options like LED what I'm really wanting to about is CFL.

The big push is to go green and such there is not many regular bulbs around but I have some questions.

You have a socket that is rated for a 60 watt bulb if I understand why its because of the heat generated by the 60 watt bulb. The 60 watt sockets are generally made of better/heavier materials.

Now with CFL only using like 15 watts and putting out the equivalent of 60 does the rating of the socket kind of become a moot point?

I mean if the socket is rated for 40 watts could you use a 60 watt CFL without issues?

Or for that what about a 100 watt equivalent CFL? As long as you keep the over all real used watts under the rating of the socket would you be ok?

So what does everyone think?
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Yes it's safe.  The '60w' rating is related to the electrical wireing and the casing.  A 100w light could draw more power causing wires to melt or causing whatever fixture it's in to burn or melt.  CFLs are much lower wattage and produce far less heat.  That's actually why CFLs are more power efficent. Incandescent bulbs generate a LOT of heat and light in outside of the human visual spectrum.  It's wasted.  A CFL uses less energy to get the same level of light output by not spewing out energy into useless forms.

So yes, you could put a CFL that's 'equal to 100w' in a 60w socket and it would be perfectly safe. It's still only a 20w device.  Just make sure the CFL physically fits inside because sometimes they are larger or longer than normal bulbs.

Ginsu Victim:

--- Quote from: Ken Layton on July 17, 2009, 10:11:33 pm ---
--- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on July 17, 2009, 08:55:51 pm ---Buy 'em up now, because come 2012, you can't buy the incandescent bulbs in the US anymore. Stupid "go green" ---smurf-poop---....

--- End quote ---

That only applies to incandescent light bulbs commonly used in household light fixtures and it applies to 40 watts and up bulb sizes. Special application incandescents, miniature lamps, audio-visual "projection" lamps, germicidal & hospital lamps, etc are exempt.

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I figured there would be a few caveats, but I'm still mad about it.

SavannahLion:
Just to nitpick on a minor detail. The whole watt equivalency thing to describe lumens is an astonishing amount of marketing ---That which is odiferous and causeth plants to grow---. It's bad but tolerable with the incandescents, but it's near insane with the CFL manufacturers. Those marketing ---uvulas--- completely changed the definition to shove CFL's down ours and the moronic lawmakers throats.

Beretta:
unless you want heat go with a compact fluorescent, they put out a lot less heat and a lot more light..

as was pointed out they're roughly 4x brighter at equal wattage, so a 13-15ish is just as good as a 60watt incandescent, it is'nt wasting so much energy in the form of energy (typo) HEAT.

i had not heard of them banning? incandescents?

that sucks!, the fact that they put out heat makes them ideal in some situations.. IE: cheap heat source to keep humidity down in gun safes, or keeping water pipes from freezing.

and it's not like fluorescent are so mother earth friendly, they DO have mercury last i knew, so then they'll MANDATE recycling  ::)

hav'nt these fools heard of LED? if they REALLY wanted to go "green" they last so much longer, take a lot less energy, and clearly have no mercury.

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