Anyone use these

[bones1]

You aren't saving anything if you replace 150 watt lights with these. These are meant to replace 500 watt lights. You use the 42 watt bulbs to replace 150 watt incandescents. 42 watt

I'm replacing the 4 150's with the 500 watt cfl's.The way I figure it I should get 2000 watts of light output for 420 watt of actual usage.The bulbs are rated to draw 105 watts each.Saving 80 watts and getting 3.3 times the light.This can't be true can it?.

 

[tallyho8]

Yes, this will be a savings since your primary consideration is to increase your light output and not just to maintain your present light output with bulbs than use less electricity. If you were going to maintain the same light output that you presently have and have dramatic savings on electricity then you would use the 42 watt bulbs and consume 168 watts instead of 600.

 

[Podunkadunk]

These are incredible if they work.Anyone ever try them. Four of these would replace 20 100 watt bulbs at the price of burning 400 watts.
Compact Fluorescent - 105 Watt - Full Spectrum 5000k - EIKO #81180 Light Bulb

Yes. I bought over $150.00 worth of them for the entire house. Some I got from bLowe's, the rest from Wally Mart. They had warranty's of 5 and 7 years. I bought all 26watt "bulbs". They equal 100w bulbs.

THEY ARE EXPENSIVE...AND 6 OF THEM HAVE BLOWN ALREADY!!!

They've only been up since June. Of course I can take them back, but I thought they were better than that! I spent a lot of money on them, I wonder if I'll ever get a break even return on my investment

Of course, I could have just bought from a bad batch too. I'm not giving up, I'll keep taking them back. It's just a pain...some of the bulbs require a tall ladder to get to.

Podunk

 

[LMTC]

There are dimmable CFs now. I am looking at a box of them on the shelf above my desk right now. Got them on ebay, very happy with them, ended up buying three different sizes from that seller....these seem brighter than what I have gotten at Sams in the past. We are using CFs in most fixtures in our house, and in my office.

 

[Tig]

I bought 4 CFs in 1990. $10 each. I still have three. Of the new style bulbs I have not lost one in 5 years. I think you got a bad batch, Podunk.

 

[shaley]

LMTC, Where did you get the dimmable CF. Most of my lights are dimmable so I've been holding off.

 

[Podunkadunk]

Maybe it's the recessed receptacle that's causing it. I have 8 recessed lights above the kitchen island. They have all blown from there. Maybe that's the problem, not the bulb.

 

[SnowRidge]

Well, I thought the OP was posting about the particular bulbs he linked to, but maybe not.

We have CFs here and there, including in outdoor fixtures where they don't work too well in cold weather. However, we have never had a single one fail. Interestingly, we have had some regular fluorescent tubes die.

We have had lots of bad incandescent bulbs recently. Most of them have such shoddy bases that they don't make good contact in the sockets.

I am so tired of the junk coming in from China.

 

[AlanB]

Maybe it is the heat, voltage or contacts? Be worth checking.

We have been steadily putting them in every time a regular bulb goes out over the last couple of years and I do not think we have changed any of the CF's out yet.

 

[bones1]

Yes, this will be a savings since your primary consideration is to increase your light output and not just to maintain your present light output with bulbs than use less electricity. If you were going to maintain the same light output that you presently have and have dramatic savings on electricity then you would use the 42 watt bulbs and consume 168 watts instead of 600.

Yes the whole idea is to not spend hundreds on 4 or 8 ft fixtures and use these instead.The pole barn needs much more than the 4 150's I have now.We'll just see what 2000 watts using the cf's looks like.