Energy saving Light Bulbs

johntheexpat

Interesting little earner for anyone coming across the Channel to France.  Most places over here seem to be selling them at between 5 and 10 euros a go, so if anyone is coming here on Holiday, fill your case with low energy bulbs and flog them at a market over here to pay for your holiday!
And so many peeps complain about how expensive the UK is......

nvingo

Tesco beat those with five for 40p a while back (value brand IIRC).

johntheexpat

Rip-Off France!

thsths

Well, sometimes I wonder whether they are subsidised in the UK. Any chance that the government is funneling money in the CFL?

nvingo

They were in my branch again this week.

RMCF

Also in my local Tesco's last week.

I have installed a few of these bulbs around the house over the last 6 months, and I really dislike the light they give off. Its rubbish compared to the old style bulbs.

And, it may be my imagination or not, they seem to be getting duller as time goes on.

IPaintSara

Its not your imagination, they do get duller with time. Test them with a light meter and you'll find the illumination is nowhere near claimed even when new. I've tried a few and hated them all, either too dim, too pink, too slow to illuminate when switched on, won't work with dimmers. A huge con trick that politicians have fallen for and are too arrogant to admit they're wrong

RMCF

Thankfully I have a stock of old style bulbs - will be putting these back in. To damn with the environment, I need to be able to see.

johntheexpat

Hopefully, LEDs will come to the rescue.  They (to my eye) give off quite a white light with a very slight blue-ish tinge which I find great for reading by.  However, they are nowhere near powerful enough to replace either CFLs or incandescent lights.  But apparently they are working on it.

Bayden Rank

We have decided to use the low energy lamps in only those places difficult to reach for changing bulbs (bit awkard on the landing due to light up time) or where light qualtiy is not an issue.

Elsewhere we will use the 'Osram Classic' which use a Halogen bulb within a classic enclosure.  The light is good the wattage roughly 66% (but we have found that we can drop from a 60W to a 40W equivalent in some locations) and they have a projected life of 2000 Hrs as opposed to 1000 Hrs for current tungsten lamps.