From: Chuck Kuecker (ckuecker@ckent.org)
Date: Mon Sep 01 2003 - 15:15:13 MDT
At 19:51 09/01/2003 +0000, Christian "naddy" Weisgerber -
naddy@mips.inka.de wrote:
>By the way, have those "energy saver bulb" fluorescents in traditional
>bulb format and using the same sockets ever caught on in the US or
>are you guys still using actual incandescents?
I have bought a few of these - quality varies greatly from maker to maker.
They have their own problems - RF interference, complexity, inability to be
dimmed - and they contain traces of mercury. Price ranges from $2 US to
over $15 US. Incandescents are still under $1 US, and will stay there,
barring govt. interference.
>More likely we are going to see LED "bulbs" in the traditional
>format. People will happily exchange bulbs, but they will not
>replace fixtures throughout their homes.
That's the rub, all right. Assembling unidirectional emitters into an
omnidirectional cluster is expensive. Perhaps there's an alternate LED
geometry that will be developed that will emit more like a standard
incandescent?
Chuck Kuecker
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