My own experience with CFL's for the past couple of years at home has
been good, with one exception.  I have had up to four at a time in a
(poorly vented) bathroom, where they only last a few months.  I suspect
the humidity kills them, so I've went back to incandescent there.  I
have also started writing the install date on the base of the CFL bulbs.

Very useful spreadsheet.  Gives me the urge to purge any other
incandescents I can find.

GC



> 
> > Here's a graph showing CFL vs filament
> > http://www.susdesign.com/cfl/cfl-spreadsheet-1.xls
> >
> > And an opinion piece by the editor of Silicon Chip
> >
> > "Compact fluorescent lights are not economic"
> > http://www.siliconchip.com.au/cms/A_102164/article.html
> 
> Both these are very interesting. We have a mixture of CFLs 
> and fillaments at
> home for reasons of mood / convienience / efficiency.
> 
> I posted another reply with my experiences of CFLs at work. We get the
> cheepest we can find, and get about 2 years continuous life 
> (24/7). From
> this, I suggest that the electronics probably fails long 
> before the tubes if
> the second article is correct.
> 
> Cheers....Mike.
> 
> 
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