Olin, due to the power crisis here in the West, the two local Portland, OR power companies are giving away coupons for free compact flourescent bulbs. I've been using them for quite awhile to not only cut down energy and get longer life, but to keep the wasted heat down during the hot summer nights. - Tom At 12:06 PM 7/3/01 -0400, Olin Lathrop wrote: >> As a businessman and small manufacturer I don't >> think efficiency is an issue. If you know you sell >> 100k+ bulbs each month to a country why would you >> make changes that reduced that figure?? > >Because if you don't the competition will reduce it even more. > >> I have also started using high efficiency compact >> fluorescents (bulb replacements) but if you have ever >> opened one of these they use a lot of small parts run >> very close to their limits, again designed to last >> a number of weeks and fail. > >You know too much . I've used a bunch of these and so far have only >replaced two in several years. One was a genuine failure because something >in the electronics broke. The other got used a lot and eventually got >dimmer and didn't start right, but I think I got the rated life out of it. > > >******************************************************************** >Olin Lathrop, embedded systems consultant in Littleton Massachusetts >(978) 742-9014, olin@embedinc.com, http://www.embedinc.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tom Handley New Age Communications Since '75 before "New Age" and no one around here is waiting for UFOs ;-) -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.