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Reged: 05/09/05
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Loc: Waltham, MA
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Re: What do you pay for electricy/utilities?
05/01/11 05:45 AM
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> Never, never, ever again. I can't stand the weird glow in the first 3 minutes, and
> I've had 2 "catastrophically" fail on me in under a year. One exploded, burnt a nice
> hole on the wood floor below (and lef a tiny smear of mercury). The other got so hot
> at the base it melted the plastic around the lamp socket it was in. I'm done with
> those damed things...
What kind were you buying? I've had decent luck with Sylvania and GE. I guess they take a minute to get to full brightness, but they look OK to me when they first turn on. The ones that have failed have just gone out or have gone strobe-light flickery, I've never had any drama.
I bought some from Ikea that were terrible, they took forever to get up to more than a candle glow and were dim even at full brightness.
One of the first ones I got was an off-brand from Home Depot. The bulb itself wasn't terrible, but the color temp was "daylight" and it had a kind of blue-ish glow. We put it in a dining room that already had blue walls and it looked like we were ready for an alien autopsy. I thought about selling it as a diet plan, any food served in that dining room would have looked incredibly unappetizing.
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