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JustWaitAFrekinMinute

On 5/2/2013 2:01 AM, wrote:
On Wed, 01 May 2013 23:25:46 -0400, Wayne B
wrote:

On Wed, 01 May 2013 22:26:35 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute
wrote:

The CFL's are bull****. I have to run two lamps in most rooms to get any
decent light...

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You're doing something wrong. You can get CFLs with just as much
light as a 100 watt bulb only using a fraction of the power. They
are "instant on" also. We use 60 watt equivalents on the boat
intsead of 110 volt incadescents. They make a huge difference in
power draw when we are running on the inverter batteries.

I have not seen any "instant on" but they do come up in a second or
less

Yes Wayne, what I am doing wrong is not dropping the last digit from the
wattage comparison... it's not a 60 watt CFL, it's a 6.0 watt.. Now I
get it...