[LiveBrianD]

Hmm... most of the bulbs in my house (mostly CFLs, some florescent tubes) have lasted for quite a while. Besides, the vast majority of incandescents are around ~3000K, which is just awful in my opinion. (as I said, I have 3000K CFLs and want to replace them with 5000K or 6500K ones)

This post has been edited by LiveBrianD: 10 March 2012 - 08:06 PM

[LiveBrianD]

I just got some 6500K CFLs, and those are a bit too cool. (maybe I should've gotten 5000K ones, but Frys only had 3000K and 6500K ones) I ended up putting in two 13W bulbs, a 3000K one and a 6500K one, and that looks about right. (my ceiling light fixture fixture supports 2 bulbs) I put a 6500K bulb in my desk lamp. I find my computer screen looks a bit better with this setup anyway (note: my computer desk is on one side of the room, my bed is on the other, and the fixture happens to be aligned so that I can have one bulb on the computer side, the 6500K one, and one on the bed side, the 5000K one).

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[Evildave]

The warmer ones definitely seem to put out more light. The allegedly 'daylight' ones end up looking ghastly blue to me, and barely illuminate the room, even after they've had a long time to warm up.

[coastie65]

LiveBrianD, on 10 March 2012 - 07:25 PM, said:

Hmm... most of the bulbs in my house (mostly CFLs, some florescent tubes) have lasted for quite a while. Besides, the vast majority of incandescents are around ~3000K, which is just awful in my opinion. (as I said, I have 3000K CFLs and want to replace them with 5000K or 6500K ones)

Had to replace the Florescent Bulb in my desklamp sometime back, At $25 that was a bit pricey for a stinking light bulb and should have just bought a new lamp.

[Kazmatron]

I have a set of these in my kitchen, amazing lights. I will likely be replacing most, if not all, of our bulbs in the house with these. They've lasted about 3 years so far, instant on at full brightness, no flickering or headaches.

My experience with bulb lifespan:
Outdoors, you can't beat the traditional incandescent. CFLs just burn out way too fast in cold temps.
Indoors, I'll take a good CFL. I've had CFLs last anywhere between 1 and 5 years so far.

As for the hazardous content, heh.... It's really not that bad.
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When LED lights come down in price, I'll be all over those.

[LiveBrianD]

Evildave, on 18 March 2012 - 12:44 AM, said:

The warmer ones definitely seem to put out more light. The allegedly 'daylight' ones end up looking ghastly blue to me, and barely illuminate the room, even after they've had a long time to warm up.

Really? When others saw the lights I had, they said it looked brighter. Previously, I had a 13W 3000K and a 23W 3000K CFL in there. Now, I have a 13W 3000K and a 13W 6500K. I do find that 6500K does seem a tad cold compared to daylight, but when I turn on a 6500K bulb during the day, it doesn't seem all that off (maybe it's because I'm used to 3000K lighting). How do they take a while to warm up anyway? I hardly notice.

[LiveBrianD]

coastie65, on 18 March 2012 - 05:53 AM, said:

LiveBrianD, on 10 March 2012 - 07:25 PM, said:

Hmm... most of the bulbs in my house (mostly CFLs, some florescent tubes) have lasted for quite a while. Besides, the vast majority of incandescents are around ~3000K, which is just awful in my opinion. (as I said, I have 3000K CFLs and want to replace them with 5000K or 6500K ones)

Had to replace the Florescent Bulb in my desklamp sometime back, At $25 that was a bit pricey for a stinking light bulb and should have just bought a new lamp.

Hmm... the 13W ones I got were 2 for $6 and frys, the cheapest price I've seen yet for those.

[LiveBrianD]

Kazmatron, on 18 March 2012 - 06:15 AM, said:

I have a set of these in my kitchen, amazing lights. I will likely be replacing most, if not all, of our bulbs in the house with these. They've lasted about 3 years so far, instant on at full brightness, no flickering or headaches.

My experience with bulb lifespan:
Outdoors, you can't beat the traditional incandescent. CFLs just burn out way too fast in cold temps.
Indoors, I'll take a good CFL. I've had CFLs last anywhere between 1 and 5 years so far.

As for the hazardous content, heh.... It's really not that bad.
EnergyStar
mnn.com
Snopes


When LED lights come down in price, I'll be all over those.

I looked into LED bulbs, but they're awfully expensive for the energy savings you get. For now, I'm sticking with CFLs. I have CFLs outside too and haven't had any issues with those personally.

[snorg]

CFLs are spoze to be cheaper in the the long run, thats horse pucky, I bought a 2 pack of CFLs not so long ago lasted little more than a year AND I left them burning almost all the time. If you turn them on and off frequently they wont even last that long they cant handle that like incandescent can. CFLs are useless as a porch lite they cant fire up in the cold.

Up here they banned 100W incandescent, brightest you can get is 60W which is usually enuff for me. If I want more I will get a Y connector and screw in two 60W.

I mite try LED but rite now the price is way too high.