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Arthur Edwards
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Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 12:35 pm    Post subject: Efficiency of compact fluorescents Reply with quote
The people selling these bulbs claim an efficiency of at least 3 times
that of incandescent bulbs. This can't be true. Does anyone know the
actual efficiency difference?

Thanks....

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Eliot Blennerhassett
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Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 7:35 am    Post subject: Re: Efficiency of compact fluorescents Reply with quote
Arthur Edwards wrote:
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The people selling these bulbs claim an efficiency of at least 3 times
that of incandescent bulbs. This can't be true.

On what basis do you make this assertion?

See
http://members.misty.com/don/bulb1.html

Efficiency of incandescent bulbs is between 2% and 7% depending on how you
calculate it,

so 3x efficiency only needs to be 15%
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