Energy saving bulbs - Don't f****ing work with my dimmers

[kawakid]

Well as from 1 hours time, we can no longer buy 100 watt conventional light bulbs, nor can we buy any conventional bulbs that are opaque in colour. And they are planning year on year until 2012 to phase out other wattages of bulbs, when in 2012 all bulbs will have to be energy saving.

Who gives a toss I hear you ask, they save you money.

They do.

But they don't work with dimmer switches, I have dimmers in the living room and all the bedrooms, I always have all my life and they don't f****ing work. So in 3 years time, its night night kids at 60WATT glare, instead of just being able to turn the lights down until they are barely on, so they can all see to get in to bed.

I can't believe no one is mentioning this more, perhaps its just me that just uses a dimmer switch. I am typing this now in a dimmed room.

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[Barry_M2]

How about stock up on them then, they are so cheap you could just start buying 20 odd a week and put them in your loft. That'll keep you going for a good few years after they have gone out of circulation!

I think all but 3 bulbs in my house are energy savers, and thats only cause you can see the ones in the living room and energy savers are ugly at the moment!


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[Mushroom]

Dimmable Daylight Bulbs
Energy Saving Full Spectrum Lights Works with standard dimmer switches
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[cagiva gezzer]

The more expensive (megaman) bulbs can be used with dimmers.
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I've quite a few boxes of 100W bulbs up in my loft. It's not like the phasing out of incandescent bulbs has been a secret.
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[ThoughtContro...]

They're a pile of shit in any case. You can't see anything till they warm up and even then if you need to find anything you need a torch. Usual green bullshit. Go back to candles peasants and pay your Carbon Tax to keep all the lights burning in Al Gore's mansion. Bah...

[Timmeh]

The real lie is they contain mercury and cadmium, and the energy consumed in their recycling is more than they save in their lifetimes.

Same with LEDs, it takes 20,000 hours of continuous running before a unit becomes carbon-offsets the energy used in its manufacture, which in case you didn't know involves baking semiconductors to a metal plate in an oven at about 5000 degrees then encapsulating it in plastic. Byproducts are heavy metals and poisons such as gallium arsenide, copper and aluminium silicate, all of which are horrendously expensive to store and dispose of safely.


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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

*Runs to the shop to buy proper bulbs*

I thought everyone knew about the Mercury? I was under the impression it was common knowledge, yet when I mentioned it to people at work they appeared to have no idea.

It's exactly the same scam as hybrid cars being "green". Takes far more energy to mine the material for the batteries, refine it, put it in the car, then dispose of it than it would to create a run a normal car with a normal engine.

Crazy.
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[stinkwheel]

Osram make an "energy efficient" bulb that has a standard filament with a small halogen unit piggy-backed on it. Good bright light. Bit like comparing modern car headlight bulbs to the old tungsten filament ones.

I use one in my stairwell because i don't want to either fall down the stairs of wait for five minutes while a shitebulb warms itself up.

Called a "halolux" bulb.
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[J0Al1]

Oh what a neusance, I love having dimmer in my bedroom. I did notice engery saving bulbs dont work with (flickers). Might have to stock up myself.

[Dragonfly]

I hate energy savers, they are gloomy and shite. I like normal bulbs that are bad for the earth and bought loads of them from tesco last week. No dimmer switches in my house, I like mine lite like a christmas tree.
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[Dragonfly]

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[Tricolor]

Sadly, I know someone who is a supporter of the ban. Her whole house has had CFL for a few years now because of the 'environment' and the (pathetic) saving on her electrickery bill.

Every time I visit I think I'm going blind.

I have enough of my preferred lamps to last - 10 years. Fvck em.
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[chris-red]

I sware my room gets darker when I turn my light on now .
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[yvaiwhy]

energy savers dnt work with any dimmers... the bulb will go to waste
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[plugger147]

you should have paid more attention to bcf then you'd have known ages ago....

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