RadioBanter - View Single Post - Your longest-lasting SW receiver?

April 4th 06, 12:25 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave

On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 16:47:17 -0500, wrote:

I use G.E.Reveal 60 watt light bulbs and they average about two and a
half weeks, (I never turn off my kitchen and bathroom lights,,, wasting
money?) before they burn out,once in a while,one of them will last about
a week longer.I once bought a flourescent light bulb about fifteen years
ago at a W.T.Grant store that was going out of business,that lightbulb
lasted over thirteen years before it finally burned out,but I still
prefer to use incadescent old style light bulbs.
cuhulin

That's insane at today's prices for energy. You can get Compact
Fluorescents for about $2 each nowadays and they use 1/5 the
electricity and last 10 times as long.