Flourescent lites causing fires?

[kbrunlees]

WE have been slowly switching out our incandescent bulbs for the LED ones, the CFL bulbs have mercury which when broken is too be treated as an extremely hazardous waste. The new Cree bulbs are made in the states and are running at $12.80 at Home Depot right now for the 40 watt and 60 watt. I like the colour which is a warm colour as opposed to some which are quite white and too antiseptic for my tastes. I have a 60 watt large flood that I am trying out in the kitchen and it is dimmable. The prices are slowly coming down. I have noticed that incandescent bulbs were not lasting very long any more. I had an old GE bulb in a package that said "long life 5000 hours" which should last a few years but now a long life bulb is 1000 hours, what a crock. These new LED bulbs are rated for 25000 hours or 10 years and they have a warranty. Of course will I remember where the paper work is in 5 let alone 2? The government has been pushing to rid households of incandescent bulbs and replace with CFL which have been documented to affect people in negative ways. LEDs have been getting better and cheaper because the demand for a safer alternative became clear.

 

[mathrulz]

I think the LEDs may be the way to go going forward - heard lots of good things about them. I haven't personally had any issues with the CFLs, but my grandparents had one that burnt up a while back. They were skeptical about having to switch from the regular incandescents in the first place, but with the manufacturers stopping production of the incandescents they gave the new ones a try. Once the one burnt up - started part of the wall on fire before they got it out too, they removed every cfl bulb from their house and bought every incandescent bulb from the stores in town (about 4-5 places) that they could find. They literally have way more than a lifetime supply of incandescent bulbs now and don't intend to stop using them anytime soon!

 

[moyiesledhead]

They literally have way more than a lifetime supply of incandescent bulbs now and don't intend to stop using them anytime soon!

Good on 'em. A lot of people are doing that!

 

[sledneck_03]

Been running them for years, no issues. Last longer and use less power. We use the blue light ones not yellow.

Slowly changing our business over. Lots of fixtures have those small two prong twist in 50 watt halogens that dont last long. Changing them to leds from costco.

Also changed a bunch of par 20 50w flood light halogens to 14w fluorescents.