I used to be on the board of an HOA for a small 12-unit condominium. The HOA was owner run and we were looking to cut our expenses. One major expense was electricity. In part this was because all the common hallways were lit 24/7/365 by old incandescent flood lights. Replacing about 36 60Watt floodlights with 15Watt CF bulbs saved the HOA over $1200/year. Not to mention that we haven't had to replace a single CF since they were installed in summer 2003. This cost savings meant that we didn't need to raise HOA dues when other condos across town were doing just that. We recup'ed our investment in the bulbs in less than three months.
Some of this just isn't true...
Have no idea about home automation stuff except to say that it could be that CFs don't work well when connected to dimmers.
If you buy the right brans of CF no one can hear them... Modern CFs might produce minimal noise in a frequency range that no one can hear. Usually this occurs if you hook it up to a dimmer switch and turn the dimmer down.
They do NOT break as easily as a tungsten filament bulb. Have you ever jostled even slightly a very hot incandescent bulb? Notice how easily the filament breaks? You don't even have to break the glass to break the filament. That will not happen with CF. Ever. You need to drop a CF and break the glass before the CF bulb is not functional.
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I used to be on the board of an HOA for a small 12-unit condominium. The HOA was owner run and we were looking to cut our expenses. One major expense was electricity. In part this was because all the common hallways were lit 24/7/365 by old incandescent flood lights. Replacing about 36 60Watt floodlights with 15Watt CF bulbs saved the HOA over $1200/year. Not to mention that we haven't had to replace a single CF since they were installed in summer 2003. This cost savings meant that we didn't need to raise HOA dues when other condos across town were doing just that. We recup'ed our investment in the bulbs in less than three months.
Some of this just isn't true... Have no idea about home automation stuff except to say that it could be that CFs don't work well when connected to dimmers. If you buy the right brans of CF no one can hear them... Modern CFs might produce minimal noise in a frequency range that no one can hear. Usually this occurs if you hook it up to a dimmer switch and turn the dimmer down. They do NOT break as easily as a tungsten filament bulb. Have you ever jostled even slightly a very hot incandescent bulb? Notice how easily the filament breaks? You don't even have to break the glass to break the filament. That will not happen with CF. Ever. You need to drop a CF and break the glass before the CF bulb is not functional.
This gets rated a 5 for funny??? Merely repeating the title of the article?