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In article <JYM.96May21103418@remarque.berkeley.edu>,
jym@remarque.berkeley.edu (Jym Dyer) wrote:

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> I've only seen 20-watt Osram/Sylvania and
> General Electric brands on sale with these subsidized prices.
> Osram/Sylvania has a good product line, but I don't need that
> many 20-watt bulbs.  And General Electric's product line is
> nothing to write home about, since they generally deliver less
> light than other brands of CFs for the same amount of energy.

GE's CFL's may be marginally less efficient than Phillips', but GE's are
commonly half the price of Phillips (which pays for a lot of kwh) and
appear to last _forever_. Their $7.50 (real price, on the shelf at
Wal-Mart not subsidized utility price) one-piece units with integral globe
are remarkably durable -- I ran 20 of them in ceiling can fixtures for a
decade with _zero_ failures... and still have some that we took with us
when we moved, and they are still just fine. These lamps ran 18 hours a
day, 365 days a year, and were subjectively brighter than the 75 watt
reflector lamps that they replaced.

Any CFL is so much more efficient than any other screw-in lamp that
discussing minor differences in CFL luminous efficiency sounds awfully
silly to me.

Now if you want to discuss CRI and light _quality_, I have some
interesting points to make...

-- 
Kirk Kerekes

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