If you've been considering replacement of your current traditional light bulbs in the house with the new whiz bang "Green Power" curly jobs before your next favorite contest, DON'T DO IT (at least wi
We've replaced nearly every light in the house with them that wasn't fluorescent to begin. End table, ceiling, bedroom, living room, ...there are very few incandescents left. The basement has someth
I am using 2 Sylvania lights, 13W CF13EL/MINI SPIRAL and 23W CF23EL/MINI TWIST/BL/3 with no problems 160-2M. Both are within 2 feet of the radios. Arne N7KA __________________________________________
Roger: What brand name green bulbs do you use? I've read on other reflectors that some names are better (quieter) than others. 73 de Gene Smar AD3F _______________________________________________ ___
Tnx to all for the info (including direct emails). Several en(light)ened me to the existence of an RFI@contesting.com reflector that I didn't know about. My bad: I got a big magnifying glass and read
Ditto that. Just about every fixture in this house is now stuffed with a compact fluorescent bulb. In the shack I've got a fixture with three 40W equivalent bulbs right over the radio, which sits thr
Check out smarthome.com. They have a lot of neat (but pricey) items including a dimmable CFL. I have bought a couple of their items (but have not tried the dimmable CFL yet. ) I do have a lot of CFLs
There is a huge variability in RFI among various brands and models. In theory, they meet FCC standards (Part 15? or maybe exempted as lighting equipment or because the switching rate is low enough o
I have a bunch of them installed also but haven't found any to be noisy (so far!). However, I DID find that my low voltage halogen under-cabinet lights in the kitchen do generate some low-level noise
Done.. Westinghouse and GE (as well as others) all make dimmable CFLs. See, for instance the GE 89624 FLE26HT3/2/DV/CD GE Energy Smart Spiral® T3 100W equivalent dimmable on standard dimmer Wheth
Rick (et al), You post some great information but why do you use triple line spaces between paragraphs? It makes your messages a pain in the butt to read. I've noticed some others doing the same. Ple
--John I don't know about the other guys but when I write something to the reflector I go to great lengths to make the line breaks at reasonable spots to make reading easier. And the DAMN robot adds
TT: I picked up (but didn't purchase) a CFL bulb package the other day and read that the gizmo contains mercury. The package simply advised something along the lines of, <Dispose of in accordance wit
I'd just been picking them of the shelf at Lowe's. The two I just checked in the end table lamps were GE. I'm going to make the wild assumption which is never safe, that the rest are *probably* GE a
You any relation to Dan Stover? <snip> The only fixture left in this house to "green-i-fy" is the dining room. When they invent a CF bulb that will run on a dimmer that one will get changed out too.
If I compose in Word and then past into OE it adds additonal paragraphs even though it is set for plain text. More than likely Outlook using Word as a composer does the same. I go through and edit o
Of course not. I think they can just recycle the mercury, plus all fluorescent bulbs contain it as far as I know. There's probably a recycling center near you... but that's still kind of a pain... c
I have replaced several lights with the neon 'Greenie Lights' and so far have noticed no ill effects. We have several 3 ways also and most of the others are in single fixtures, including two in the s
John, I've seen messages that are one humongous paragraph and I assumed that the robot was converting messages created in HTML to ASCII and screwing up the format. But for some reason I didn't associ
<snip> It will be interesting to see if the BPL threat turns out to be peanuts compared to high-density CFL implementation. <snip> Actually this is going to be a non-issue. LED light bulbs are alread