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Walmart promoting mini-flourescent bulbs in the name of environmentalism
Tester schrieb:
Of course, flourescent bulbs create RFI. They are still relatively harmless compared to other sources though - move away some 2 meters or so, and their effect is largely gone (certainly when using a magnetic antenna). My parents' plasma TV radiates quite heavily, not like the previous CRT would have been much better - enough to make 20m unusable in any case, and that in quite a distance. My network equipment (particularly switches) isn't that well-behaved either, while the computer itself doesn't emit that much actually. Thankfully dimmers have never been an issue. BTW, we haven't been using large incandescent lightbulbs for years, except for door lighting where they still make sense as no warmup is needed and operating time is generally small. Otherwise a 20 watt compact fluorescent gives a decent brightness here. Oh, and flicker these things do not, but my cheapo desk lamp with a 20 watt conventional fluorescent and apparently a primitive starter does (which annoys both me and the camera's autofocus). As someone with lousy vision I'm usually not opposed to a bit more light, which with conventional lightbulbs could quickly mean wasting hundreds of watts just on lighting, and that's a bit much. (Even my computer barely tops 100W, monitor included.) Something that does not seem to be present yet are compact fluorescents with high CRI (color rending index), meaning a more uniform coverage of the visible spectrum. Quite a pity. Stephan -- Home: http://stephan.win31.de/ Bytes are generally harmless - unless taken to bits. |
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