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Posted by Wayne Boatwright on July 21, 2008, 11:54 pm
On Sun 20 Jul 2008 03:38:51a, told us...
> On Jul 19, 6:36 pm, jmee...@columbus.rr.com wrote:
>>
>> > Hi all,
>>
>> > We have Fluorescent Light Fixtures in our kitchen and has a total of
12
>> > tubes of 3ft long at 30 watt per tube.
>> > 4 of them already out and I have replaced almost all of the other 8
tub
>> > es, recently one or 2 of the tubes is starting to go out. Sometimes
it
>> > turned on sometimes it doesn't. I was thi nking would it be more
>> > economical in the long run to replace the Fluorescent Light with
>> > "Recessed Light" and use comp act fluorescent bulbs instead?
>> > The Fluorescent tubes are very expensive compare to compact
fluorescent
>> > bulbs. Would this be a diy job?
>>
>> You should have long life from those tubes. If you don't have a
>> good ground to the fixture, that can cause problems and poor quality
>> ballast and sockets can also cause the problem. I would start there.
>
> Yes, I was also thinking that standard fluorescents have long life, so
> something must be wrong. Certainly a lot longer than the CFL indoor
> flood type crap ones that are made to go into recessed light
> fixtures. Those are the worst CFL's I've seen. The spiral bulb
> ones seem to last. I guess you could screw some of those into
> recessed light fixtures, but they would probably require extenders and
> look like hell. Also, if you do that, be aware that some sprial
> types say they can't be used pointed down.
>
> The sealed flood type CFL's I have used have 2 big problems:
>
> 1 - They take minutes to get any reasonable amount of light, way
> longer than the typical spiral type.
>
> 2 - A good number of them fail after only a few months use.
>
> Now, I know someone is going to tell me how wonderful they are, but
> the problem is there is no way to know which ones warm up fast, which
> ones last, etc. And the product lines, manufacturing, etc is
> changing so fast, that what someone bought 3 months ago may be
> different by now.
Let me be the first to tell you how wonderful they are. We have 12
recessed cans in our kitchen. When we moved into the house a year and a
half ago, we installed CFL flood lights. They actually contain a spiral
design CFL within the flood light shaped housing. They reach full
brightness in under 3 seconds (I just timed them). No, I'm not going to
climb up to the ceiling to find out what brand they are. :-) We bought
them at Home Depot. These are R-40 size bulb shapes with 23 watt CFLs
enclosed.
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Wayne Boatwright
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