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"Joerg" <notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> wrote in message 
news:Wv7Il.25299$Ws1.16967@nlpi064.nbdc.sbc.com...
> Rich Grise wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:16:45 +0100, ian field wrote:
>>> "Joerg" <notthisjoergsch@removethispacbell.net> wrote in message
>>>> Last year in December I bought a WES51 also here for the lab, to have a
>>>> spare. But I started using it a lot because the tiny PES51 pencil lays
>>>> much nicer in the hand than the fat LR-20 of the older stations. They
>>>> also added a nice feature, not important to me but to companies and the
>>>> fire marshall: If the iron isn't moved in an hour or so it 
>>>> automatically
>>>> shuts down. Grand total of $92 plus tax, with pencil and one tip, not a
>>>> bad deal at all.
>>>>
>>> Maybe they learned from the mass exodus of customers and fixed the non
>>> existent reliability since the last time I had the misfortune to pay 
>>> good
>>> money for one of their products, but once bitten twice shy, I'm not 
>>> giving
>>> them any more of my money.
>>
>> The same reason I'll never buy another NiMH battery or CFL light.
>>
>
> It was the same for me, for a few years. Then I tried another batch of CFL 
> because CostCo had them for less than a buck a piece. Philips Marathon, 
> and they last and last and last. Of course I'd never buy a CFL at boutique 
> pricing since that's just not worth it.
>

Regardless of brand I still find the light quality is not as advertised - a 
20W CFL does NOT produce the same light as a 100W incandescent.

Its difficult for me to make a life expectancy comparison as I had surge 
limiting NTC thermistors mounted in the switch plates, this prolonged the 
life of incandescent bulbs by an impressive margin - certainly much longer 
than some of the first electronic CFLs to hit the market.