Energy efficient lightbulbs

I'm not keen. Don't like the harsh light they produce. New ones seem a bit better than the old ones though.

We have quite a few 50w halogen downlighter thingies. The semi skimmed ones are awful but I've dioscovered chavtastic LED ones in B&Q. Not cheap at £9 for 2, but they use all of 1.2w each. So almost 1/50 of the leccy used by the normal ones. Even though the LEDs are white, they emit a sort of blue light. You can get blue ones too - they'd be very very blue...

Will try to take a pic later

OK, I think someone's had too much lemonade. Go and have a lie down, dear

Harsh light? My complaint with energy efficient bulbs was always that they were slow to come on and pretty dim usually anyway. But My house is full of them still

[embee]

The newer CFL (compact fluorescent lamps) are a huge improvement over the early ones. I got some freeby lamps from B.Gas and they are really good, immediate fire-up and full bright within a very short time. In contrast I found an old Phillips one in the spares box and put it in the spare bedroom, switched on and you could hardly see the other side of the room, absolute junk.

Try the Megaman lamps. They also now do smooth dimmable ("dimmerable") versions working off normal dimmers (except touch types I think).

british gas were sending stacks of these out for free recently. the cues in the collection office have been funnny with everyones faces when they realise they cued for 30 mins to get some light bulbs

[tigersaw]

Those B+Q LED ones last about 6 weeks. They lose the LEDS in blocks of 3. The flouescenty ones take ages to warm up. I'm still a fan of proper light bulbs.

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by Warthog

Harsh light? My complaint with energy efficient bulbs was always that they were slow to come on and pretty dim usually anyway. But My house is full of them still

my house too. And they last forever. Leccy bill is a lot cheaper too

[Stu]

I still have 2 bulbs from 10 years ago, I have used them in 9 different houses and they still work. They're huge, heavy & Take a while to warm up though

Originally Posted by tigersaw

Those B+Q LED ones last about 6 weeks. They lose the LEDS in blocks of 3.

I've got the receipt, I;'ll demand my £ back. Good beer money, that was

The free ones that have been posted are are leaps and bounds ahead of the old ones , I`ve converted over and don`t mind them at all , problem is I have uplighters in most rooms and have difficulty getting bulbs for those .