Re: N:Vision CFL's

["Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Dan Wright" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > I'm in the Wash, DC area.  Didn't you used to be?  There was no sale I
was
> > aware of - I just stopped by shortly before closing and grabbed an
> > assortment to test.  Pepco/Vepco doesn't appear to have a program,
> > although
> > I've heard of some independent organizations offering at least a free
bulb
> > to each household that switches over.
>
> I was, but am not in California.

I *think* that's a typo but just in case it's not, then where not am you?
(-:

> SCE gives them away at events, sometimes
> tosses in LED nightlights too.  Not enough to do a house, but it helps.

Those are the sorts of programs I've seen here, and mostly aimed at low
income families for porchlites and such.

> >> I also have one 60 watt equivalent in an exterior light that does not
> >> seem
> >> to like the cold.  However, it looks to be more of a fixture issue.
> >
> > Fortunately, that might have to wait until next year to test.
>
> Hopefully, I've seen ice storms in your area this late in the year

Hush!  In twenty five years, I don't recall them ever extending past March
15th.

> > Are there any issues you know of regarding base up v. base down
installs?
>
> I have not seen any, and I assume the PAR 30 replacement were designed for
> base up.  Nothing on the packaging says one way or the other.

The 42W bulb, plugged into an appliance module, just turned itself back on
with no apparent input from any controller after an hour of on time and
about 20 minutes of off time.  Could be as simple as not making complete
contact since it's got a whopping huge base that barely fits the socket.
Could be as complex as something in the lamp base cooling down enough to
trigger the local current sensing circuit of the module.

Update:  Left it on for fifteen minutes, turned it off remotely and then,
about ten minutes later their was a flash almost like a flashbulb and about
a second later it turned itself back on.  That means these bulbs need
modules with local sensectomies and in that respect, they don't perform as
well as the signal sucking GE's which at least don't reignite themselves
spontaneously.  I'll test the 23W spiral bulb next, although I suspect it,
too, will reignite spontaneously since the 23W floodlight does.

The bloom is off the rose.

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Bobby G.