Posted on 10/24/2009 10:08:56 PM PDT by Nachum
It could be the breakthrough that finally has consumers warming to the energy-saving light bulb.
A version that brightens up instantly, costs just 88p a year to run and lasts up to 25 years has gone on sale in Britain for the first time.
The only catch is that the new LED bulb will cost £30.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I’ve still got pitch soaked torches in wall sconces. I’m just not ready to upgrade, yet.
I have two IC bulbs outside my home in MN that have been there since I purchased this home in 1981.
They still work.
25 years if used only 4 hours per day.
Additionally, 60W is not very bright, particularly for an aging, presbyopic population.
Welcome to the homepage devoted to the Longest burning Light Bulb in history. Now in its 108th year of illumination:
http://www.centennialbulb.org/
And the Green’s hate captalism eh? Seems the “junk science” industry is cashing in yet again. Purchase a light bulb for $60 and save the planet?? Give me a freakin break...
My mom bought a bulb like that. It lasted about 6 months before 2/3 of the LEDs stopped lighting.
No way one of those bulbs will last 25 years.
My bedroom light has a incandescent bulb that was installed before these new bulbs were even really on the market. It has outlasted a good half a dozen CFL bulbs that have failed in various ways. One of them burned a hole in the side and released all that toxic stuff in my bathroom. The newer CFL bulbs come on so dim that you have to turn them on for 5 minutes before you can use the room.
I have five light bulbs in my house, including one that is turned on and off at least twenty times per day (pantry) that were screwed in in 1986. Only one of the other four (basement stairwell) is ever left on for extended periods and the other four, although generally used every day, are on sparingly.
After five years I was amazed at how long most of the light bulbs in my house were lasting and I actually called the electrician who originally wired our house to find out what kind of bulbs they were and where I could get them. He said they were a different voltage or amperage (or something, I wish I could remember) than the regular GE and Silvania light bulbs, etc. (although they look exactly the same). He got the bulbs from some commercial outlet that generally sells only to electricians.
“The only catch is that the new LED bulb will cost £30.”
Well duh..that’s one of the costs the Chinese (sole manufacturers of the “planet saving” light bulb) are asking for holding all the soon to be worthless Western fiat currency and soon to be worthless American Treasury bills.
You must have some agenda to put out such false info. We have had cfl's in most of our lights for over three years. None have burned out and they come on almost instantly.
So you are calling me a lier. I only wish FR had the Ignore function. You would be on it.
Do you have to wait five minutes before you can use your cfl monitor to write your posts?
There are 12V versions of these LED bulbs and they are incredible power savers for boating and sailing applications. They are fantastic, read your book all night long in the aft cabin without worrying about killing your batteries.
I have to wait five minutes when I turn on the light in the room my computer is in before I can see the keyboard. The older CFL bulbs came on 75% bright right away. The new ones come on about 5% bright. They do this to make the ballast in the bulb last longer because they were always burning out. I had one of the older ones until about a month ago. I was on my computer and it started to flicker on and off and basically went out. It was about two years old. You really should do do a search on the subject before you start calling people lairs. Here are some links.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/home_journal/how_to/4276104.html
BTW there is no such thing as a CFL monitor. And A CRT is far from the same thing.
I've observed the opposite with my CFLs.
Oh. You didn't know that your monitor was lit with CFL's?
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