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Re: energy conservation



"Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>But Dave, you're forgetting that aside from the excellent compatibility that
>every CFL offers for every electronic switch, you get a chance to dump some
>mercury into the environment when you're through enjoying the wonderful
>effects of an aging CFL bulb.  Thrill to the flicker, bask in the steadily
>diminishing light output and steadily increasing warm up times, revel in the
>slight buzzing sound from the base.  Then there's the excitement of the
>gamble:  will the new bulb be an X-10 signal sucker, noise generator, both
>or neither?  Who doesn't love a CFL? (/sarcasm off!)

This page has CFL data based on hands-on tests (with links to similar pages
by others) but doesn't get into X-10/Insteon friendliness.

     http://members.misty.com/don/cfx.html

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