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Posted by Jeff on October 17, 2007, 7:40 pm
Has anyone tried dimmable compact fluorescent bulbs. How well do the work
and do they smoothly dim? What brand name did you use?
Thanks,
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Posted by GWB on October 17, 2007, 8:19 pm
>Has anyone tried dimmable compact fluorescent bulbs. How well do the work
>and do they smoothly dim? What brand name did you use?
>
>Thanks,
>
They're pretty dim already. <G>
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Posted by TKM on October 17, 2007, 9:27 pm
> Has anyone tried dimmable compact fluorescent bulbs. How well do the work
> and do they smoothly dim? What brand name did you use?
>
> Thanks,
Your question is timely. At a lighting showroom open house last night, that
question came up so we borrowed a standard Lutron dimmer from a
demonstration display and connected it to a GE 29 watt screw base CFL marked
for dimming. After warming up at full output, the CFL dimmed fairly
smoothly down to about 1/3 light output (we had a light meter) and then it
dropped out. The dimmer had to be cranked up to almost full before the CFL
came on again. So, our conclusion is that self-ballasted CFLs can be
dimmed; but the range is limited.
TKM
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Posted by Ken on October 18, 2007, 5:21 pm
> Has anyone tried dimmable compact fluorescent bulbs. How well do the work
> and do they smoothly dim? What brand name did you use?
>
> Thanks,
My experience matches TKMs, plus one other observation when I tried
this a few years ago in our dining room. I had a regular tungsten
bulb in one lamp socket and a dimmable CFL in another, and started
dimming. As expected, the tungsten bulb got dimmer and yellower, but
the dimmable CFL got dimmer and bluer. I totally hated the color of
the dimmed CFL, so as of now our entire house has CFLs, with the
exception of the dining room which still has tungsten bulbs on the
dimmer.
The one dimmable CFL I got I ended up just putting it in another non-
dimmable fixture somewhere, and I don't even know which one any more.
Ken
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Posted by Eric9822 on October 19, 2007, 12:49 am
> Has anyone tried dimmable compact fluorescent bulbs. How well do the work
> and do they smoothly dim? What brand name did you use?
>
> Thanks,
Same as experience as TKM and Ken. I bought one Philips Marathon
Classic 65 CFL dimmable flood as a test because I wanted to replace
the 20 or so I have installed in can lights throughout the house. The
CFL dimmed fairly smooth until it cut out completely at about the last
third of the dimmers range. The lamps output was very cool as I
expected. I took it out after about 30 seconds. My opinion is that
they suck.
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