My experience with CFLs is quite different from yours. (I have no
experience with LED replacements.)
> Noisey, electrically
Not here, so far.
> and mechanically,
Not that I've seen.
(Yes, I can detect a very slight hum from CFLs, and from many
incandescents too.)
> degrade rapidly over
> time,
Not here.
> have to have special housings or mounting postitions to prevent the
> POS power supplies from cooking,
No special housings here.
I've read about CFLs that cooked, but I haven't had any do that yet.
Ours are barely above room temp.
I think this issue may be a quality control problem, or perhaps lousy
circuit designs, not a fault of CFLs per se.
> won't run when cold,
The ones I stuck outside (NOT made for cold weather) work fine winter
and summer, aside from needing a few seconds to reach normal
brightness in the winter.
> take tens of seconds
> to several minutes to come up to brightness,
The earliest CFLs I bought, about 20? years ago, do that; but the rest
of them do not, except for the ones I put outdoors. Those start up
right away but take about 15 seconds to come up to brightness on cold
winter nights.
> they cost 32 times what they intended to replace,
They are fairly cheap here. But I haven't bought any in years ...
haven't needed to!
> can't be disposed of as they are considered toxic waste,
That one is the Really Big Problem.
> The Govt. is now creating another industry (CFL disposal)
And their actions drove the remaining American incandescent bulb
makers to close down.
My location is not free of RFI; but none (ore very little) of it seems
to be coming from CFLs, and not from those in my home.
Regards,
Andy
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