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Geordie Spark said:
The good old lightbulb isn't making a comeback in my house 'cos it's never been away!!

For years I've been buying them in bulk off E-bay and Amazon - about £6 for 10.

Sod the "Greenies" and "Energy Efficiency" - Joe Swan got it right!!
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Bought some yesterday to replace compact flor ones in the garden.
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telectrix said:
but these ecologists and greenies fail to see the wood for the trees. OK, incandescent lamps produce heat as well as light, but not as inefficient as made out. basic law of physics is that energy cannot be created or destroyed. so..assume a 100 watt bulb produces 20watts equivalent of light energy and 80watts of heat. this 80watts helps to warm the room, thus reducing the energy required from the heating system, so then the gas central heating output is reduced, albiet by a small factor, comments please.
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I changed a corridor full of twin 40W fittings for 6W. Essentially each fitting was like having a tubular heater every couple of metres along the wall. Since changing them we've been able to turn the air conditioning off, which saves even more electricity.
In another corridor the cleaners used to 'help' by changing the bulbs. The shades stated 40W max but they'd put in whatever made light come out, which was often a 60W; since changing to LED the company no longer has to fork out £15 a pop for new shades when the old ones get burned or discoloured.
 
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Flanders said:
My dad used to give me the Knock out when i was a kid for payment when I used to go along with him on rewires ,told me they were 5 pence's Or Tel may know them as half a shilling :)
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the 5p was a full shilling, more than can be said for some members. :44:
 
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Andy78 said:
Hope it's better than the batch of Crompton linear halogens I bought lately ..... None of them have lasted more than a few weeks. Lamps these days, in general, are absolute garbage.
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I'll let you know, they're nice and bright and you get the light instantly. 60p a throw.
The low energy ones weren't giving enough light and you needed them on a cupla mins to reach their full light.:nuke:
 
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Andy78 said:
Hope it's better than the batch of Crompton linear halogens I bought lately ..... None of them have lasted more than a few weeks. Lamps these days, in general, are absolute garbage.
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Were they 100W by any chance? I think they must have produced a dodgy batch - I had 10 which only lasted a few days each.
 
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Geordie Spark said:
That's why after trying the new fangled things and finding they didn't last the proverbial five minutes I went back to the old fashioned reliable things. :sailor:
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next thing is you'll be trading that MR2 for a horse and cart.
 
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Halogens, LED's blimey I'm an still using the good old 60w BC for everything, as up here in Jockland the SNP are trying to run the whole country on a couple of Wind Turbines :)
This new technology has completely bypassed Scotland.
 
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