last fall I relamped my Master bedroom ceiling fan with CFLs. It had four sockets with those transparent flower looking glass shades, designed for the short "fan bulbs or appliance bulbs".
I had put some Sylvania "CF13EL/micromini" miniature curly CFLs rated for 13 watts equal to 60 Watts and had to put up with the slow turn on.
Now just six months later one of them has gone out, despite their claims of long life.
I go to Lowes and buy another 2-pack, for $8. To add insult to injury the package says this bulb will last me 11 years and save me $112.
Worse than that the bulb package looks indentical to what I bought 6 months ago except the fine print on the bulb base now says 2700K instead of 3000K so the new bulb looks visibly different in color.
I doubt it's the vibration because being less than 2 seasons for these bulbs I haven't even run the fan during their short pitiful lifetime. Besides, fan bulbs are needed for the vibration resistance of the filaments and these have no filaments.
I only use the lights maybe 2-3 hours a day on average, that would be 400 hours maybe for six months.
I had put some Sylvania "CF13EL/micromini" miniature curly CFLs rated for 13 watts equal to 60 Watts and had to put up with the slow turn on.
Now just six months later one of them has gone out, despite their claims of long life.
I go to Lowes and buy another 2-pack, for $8. To add insult to injury the package says this bulb will last me 11 years and save me $112.
Worse than that the bulb package looks indentical to what I bought 6 months ago except the fine print on the bulb base now says 2700K instead of 3000K so the new bulb looks visibly different in color.
I doubt it's the vibration because being less than 2 seasons for these bulbs I haven't even run the fan during their short pitiful lifetime. Besides, fan bulbs are needed for the vibration resistance of the filaments and these have no filaments.
I only use the lights maybe 2-3 hours a day on average, that would be 400 hours maybe for six months.
Comment