On 1/20/2014 3:26 PM, Hank wrote:

On 1/20/2014 1:10 PM, KC wrote:

On 1/20/2014 12:52 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:


The ones I recently installed (Cree) are rated at 800 lumens (ea.) Big
difference.

Yeah, but it's still only equal to a typical 60 watt bulb... I need the
lumens typical of a 100 watt incandescent (13-1500 lumens) to make a
bulb worth while and I can't find that in a standard base, cfl or
similar.... so far...

If you used a little ingenuity you could pair up 2 800 lumen led's and
have the equivalent of a 100 watt or better incand. Forget the CFLs.
They are worthless, and dangerous.


The other day I happened to go down to one of the finished rooms in the
basement (I rarely go down there for anything) and I thought a strobe
light was running.

A certain person ... not mentioning any names ... had replaced a
conventional bulb in a pole lamp with one of those non-dimmable CFL
things made in China. The pole lamp has a built in dimmer. Stupid
thing was flashing on and off and felt a lot hotter than normal when I
removed it. In the trash it went ... sorry to the environmentalists who
want you to dispose of them as hazardous waste.