100 Watts

Well I have a couple of Philips Softone bulbs and they are crap.

I'll be replacing them with LEDs shortly anyways.
 
I've never really understood people inpatients with energy saving bulbs. I just wait 30 seconds, I cant say the initial low level of light has ever held me back from doing what I needed the light for.

The fact that they use 1/4 the energy easily out weighs the waiting around IMO.

I actually like the old energy saving bulbs in the bathroom that take a while to warm up. Nothing worse than being blinded first thing in the morning while your eyes adjust!
 
J.B said:
I've never really understood people inpatients with energy saving bulbs. I just wait 30 seconds, I cant say the initial low level of light has ever held me back from doing what I needed the light for.

The fact that they use 1/4 the energy easily out weighs the waiting around IMO.

I actually like the old energy saving bulbs in the bathroom that take a while to warm up. Nothing worse than being blinded first thing in the morning while your eyes adjust!
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Because by the time it takes for the bulb to warm up, I could be down the stairs and turning the light off with a normal bulb.

I don't want to wait, what if I'm in a hurry to get out the house?

Btw, its impatience*
 
I use 11W bulbs and never found the "warm up" time as bad as people make out.

Yes, the bulb comes on dimmer but it's probably 60% of the total output, so the room is perfectly lit as far as I'm concerned. As mentioned, it helps when you wake up and turn the light on in the bathroom :)
 
I still use some 40W bulbs in my lava lamps but everything else has been switched over to energy saving bulbs. The lava lamps provide a nice heat source during the Winter but I don't run them in the Summer because the living room gets too hot :(
 
Not that many people leaving 100w bulbs on all the time.

How about 24/7 overclocked computers? How about folding? It can get pretty expensive.
 
J.B said:
I've never really understood people inpatients with energy saving bulbs. I just wait 30 seconds, I cant say the initial low level of light has ever held me back from doing what I needed the light for.

The fact that they use 1/4 the energy easily out weighs the waiting around IMO.

I actually like the old energy saving bulbs in the bathroom that take a while to warm up. Nothing worse than being blinded first thing in the morning while your eyes adjust!
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Exactly this. People are so ready to dismiss anything new and "eco" that they jump on the impatience bandwagon.

Who actually cares about waiting 20 seconds for a bulb to warm up fully when you're saving about 75% of the cost? It's madness!
 
Burnsy2023 said:
There is one exception to that: the bathroom light.
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Who has a bathroom so vast and so decorated that they need to wait for the bulb to warmup before they can see wtf they're going?

I certainly have never seen such a bathroom :p
 
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