I've had CFLs for 10 years now, in outside lights. They take a while to
come up to full brilliance, but they always come up here in temps down to
zero farenheit.
73, Perte N4ZR
At 11:29 AM 11/12/2008, EP Swynar wrote:
>Hi David,
>
>Yes, but how are they in a cold environment...?
>
>Some years ago I went to considerable expense installing a bank of
>ceiling-mounted tubular fluorescent lamps in my garage --- after just one
>winter I took them all down again, gave them away, & replaced them with
>incandescent bulbs.
>
>Our cold Canadian winter here just flat-out would NOT permit the
>fluorescents to fire up!
>
>~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
>
>
>*******************************************
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "David C. Hallam" <dhallam@rapidsys.com>
>To: "Andy" <ingraham.ma.ultranet@rcn.com>; "RFI" <rfi@contesting.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 11:18 AM
>Subject: Re: [RFI] CFL Bulbs
>
>
> > As far as life goes, CFL's have definitely gotten better. A couple of
>years
> > ago, I was replacing the spiral type MUCH more often than incandescent.
>Now
> > that is not true.
> >
> > David
> > KC2JD/4
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: rfi-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:rfi-bounces@contesting.com]On
> > > Behalf Of Andy
> > > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 11:09 AM
> > > To: RFI
> > > Subject: Re: [RFI] CFL Bulbs
> > >
> > >
> > > Just as another data point ...
> > >
> > > I have several compact flourescents in the home and a few standard
> > > non-compact types. By far the noisiest of them is NOT a CFL. I
> > > am not much
> > > a weak signal listener, but the CFLs are pretty quiet, whereas
> > > this non-CFL
> > > roars over the HF spectrum.
> > >
> > > I also get pretty good life out of my CFLs. At this point I
> > > think I've had
> > > two start to flicker, in well over 10 years of use.
> > >
> > > Maybe I'm just getting the right brand(s)?
> > >
> > > Is there anything NOT made in China?
> > >
> > > Andy
> > >
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