On Jun 6, 7:10*pm, bpnjensen wrote:
On Jun 6, 7:06*pm, Bill Baka wrote:



On 06/06/2010 06:59 PM, bpnjensen wrote:

On Jun 6, 5:48 pm, Bill *wrote:

I don't know about you guys, but I like my filament bulbs in the winter.
The lack of efficiency just helps heat the room I am in, so no big deal.
My summer bulbs are CFL's, soon to be LED's when the price comes down to
something a mere mortal can afford.

In the winter, this is probably true - what you lose on light
efficiency you save on heating. *Then, the question becomes - per unit
of tangible heat energy, what costs less - the electricity to light
the bulb or the "other" source?

I am sure this can be calculated, but not by this guy! :-)

I have a big reason to not want the CFL's in the winter, radio noise.
DX sucks in the summer and the noise level goes up in the evenings when
everybody turns on their energy saving noise makers.

Understood, the older ones were terrible - but the new ones I have
purchased are RF quiet as a mouse. *If there is any noise, it's much
lower than the background. *I can have all these new CFLs in the house
off or on and the radio S/N is the same.

Don't ask me which brand just now - I'd have to run and get the
package from the garage; but if you shy away from CFLs, this is one
less reason to do so.

Bruce

BpnJ - Try un-screwing the CFLs when not in-use
and you may find that the RFI is even lower ~ RHF