These lightbulbs acn be very dangerous if dropped.



rense.com/general95/energsavdang.html

Holy shit! Poor bloke.

The LED bulbs have come down in price now. We replaced all of our low energy bulbs with LED ones and they seem ok.

Whoa those pics are grim!

Co-incidentally I just changed one of these bulbs myself an hour ago. Yes I use them, because they do save money...also I'm sceptical to say the least about the theory that their light itself can make you ill. The light from them is not of the same quality as that from an incandescent bulb for sure, but it is imo harmless.

Saying that, I dread breaking one. According to a leaflet distributed to households by our city council, if one of these bulbs gets broke, then the whole room needs to be professionally decontaminated...and I don't think that would be cheap.

diamondgeezer wrote:
And yet...you still choose to stick one up in every room of your house, dg?

I judge you.

The LED lights are still a bit more expensive than the compact fluorescent light bulbs, but they are more energy efficient and last much longer, so the intial cost is offset by the long term saving. They don't contain any merciry and you can get them pretty cheap on eBay.

Btw, you can get the LED bulbs really cheap if you order them from China, if you don't mind waiting 5 weeks for them to turn up.

Ta Lesley, will check em out.

@ Abs....I just make sure they don't get broke innit. They don't 'blow' of their own accord as the old incandescents could do, so as long as you're careful (ie don't put em in reading lamps etc) then all should be ok.

diamondgeezer wrote:
No fear, mate. I'd rather use fekking candles.

You get a bulb with lots of little LED's on it, but the more LED's the brighter the light. I've got a set of spotlights in the dining room with 94 LED bulbs and they are really bright. The 94 LED bulbs are less than 5 Watts each and they reckon they last for about 10x longer than CFL's.

Fuck, I need to go to sleep, I just realised I have written absolute gibberish, which hopefully is now edited to make sense. Night.

I hate all of these new lightbulbs , much prefer the good old types of lightbulbs. I still have a 'stash' of old ones.

Silverwand wrote:
Welcome back Silverwand.

Do you know steppewar by any chance?

novum wrote:
Thank you Novum

I know why you ask I saw Steppewar's video (last year I think) on his youtube channel about his very own stash of old style bulbs very impressive

LesleyPumpshaft wrote:
Heyup, linkie?

They are shit shit shit shit energy saving lightbulbs my arse, I've gone and replaced them all through them in the trash, after seeing one explode do you know how to save money. on lighting turn the fucking light off when you're finished

andyh wrote:
I got mine from here.

They took about 5 weeks to turn up, I just realised that the downstairs bog still has one of the evil light bulbs in it, so I've just ordered another!

For areas that you want to be well lit, get the highest amount of LED's you can.

Saw a funny light bulb the other day - turned out to be a CFL inside an incandescent - no kidding, I had to look twice.

news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20020183-54.html

EDIT: Here's the article.

General Electric today unveiled a halogen compact fluorescent light bulb that promises the efficiency of a CFL without the annoying warm-up period.

Unlike typical compact fluorescents (CFLs), the new GE Reveal and GE Energy Smart Soft White hybrid light bulbs will not take time to heat up in order to reach full luminescence.

The hybrid bulb's halogen tube turns on instantly, then shuts off once the CFL tubes have warmed to their ultimate brightness.
(Credit: GE)

The bulb is actually two bulbs in one. A halogen light nestled within the bulb turns on almost instantly (half a second), then shuts off once the CFL has reached its full brightness, according to GE.

GE says its new hybrid bulb only contains 1 milligram of mercury. Although some companies like Sylvania managed to make small CFLs containing only 1.5 milligrams of mercury, the Enivironmental Protection Agency states that the average CFL contains 4 milligrams of mercury.

Mercury is widely known to be a health risk if inhaled or ingested, especially in small children, and has always been one of the downsides to CFLs. The use of mercury in CFLs has been the concern of several consumer-advocacy groups, and the EPA has guidelines on how to handle broken CFLs, which can release a small amount of mercury if its tubes are broken. Some manufacturers have even made a CFL light bulb that can contain its mercury even in the event of a tube breakage.

Pricing has not yet been announced. GE did say that 15-watt (60-watt incandescent equivalent) and 20-watt (75-watt equivalent) versions of the hybrid halogen-CFL bulbs will be available as of 2011, with other sizes to become available later.

At 8,000 hours of use, the hybrid light bulb has the same lifespan as GE's Soft White 14-watt CFL. The average incandescent bulb has a 1,000-hour lifespan.