[mythtv-users] [Slightly OT] solar power for all our gadgets

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Sat Mar 21 01:13:21 UTC 2009


On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 9:03 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 08:57:21PM -0400, John Drescher wrote:
>> > Any CFL that behaves the way the OP described is either broken or VERY old.
>> > Con-ED in NYC was giving away better ones than that in 1991.
>> >
>> My commercial electric (sold at Home Depot) spot lights possibly PAR38
>> I have in my recessed lighting in the main hallway take 1 to 3 minutes
>> to achieve full brightness. That is how they were new and how they are
>> now 3 years later. As a result we rarely turn them on because they are
>> basically useless for their purpose.
>
>     Got an ET bench in that hall? Otherwise, the cycle time and probably
> even the brightness of the lights is not that big of a deal. You could even
> probably just get an incandescent with 1/4 the wattage (of whatever was there
> to begin with) and still be good.
>
It's a two story foyer with a pair of stairs and a cat walk so one
would like to be able see where they are going so not to trip and land
back on the first story... The 3 PAR38 CFLs give off less than a
single 25W incandescent would in the same area for at least the first
minute.

John


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