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Re: August
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by chubbytrucker01 (
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I read somewhere a couple of weeks ago that cfl's have double the lifespan if you put them in a fixture that breathes. Mine don't seem to get more than slightly warm. I have a light fixture in the kitchen that would eat about 3 60 watt incandescents a month due to the heat it held. I changed all of the bulbs in my house at the same time and all of them are still burning except for one in the fixture in the kitchen it died about a year ago. The ones in the ceiling fan are still burning bright after 5 years. The ones in the bathroom are taking a while to warm up and get to full intensity. I think they might be a different brand than the rest. The ones in the ceiling fan are visible and everyone seemed opposed to the idea of looking at them in the ceiling fan so I had to buy frosted shades shaped like flowers and the double coils of the cfl look like part of the flower.
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by ghurd on Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 at 10:24:45 AM MST
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I think it would be well over double, maybe 50x sometimes.
I had to ventilate the (cup-with-3-screws-that-holds-the-glass) things with lots of 3/16" holes to get the CFL's tube cool enough to comfortably touch!
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