Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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17 October 2010
10:0975272My next door neighbour kindly gave me half dozen low energy light bulbs yesterday morning, which I kindly accepted. They`re the spirally one`s sent free through the post by the very wasteful electricity companies. I`m hoping the charity shop can sell them down Castle street. Why am I giving them away? Because I`ve still got all my free one`s, which I have no use for, (look unattractive in the ceiling light`s), and I just wonder how the electricity companies justify spending all that money on low energy bulbs, along with all the postage and packing that goes with it?
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Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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17 October 2010
12:0675275I was given some at an energy stall at a local country fair. Like you said they don't look particularly attractive with some light fittings. Some of them also took a fair while to 'brighten'. I nearly fell down the stairs a couple of times because I forgot to put the light on 10 minutes earlier! Thankfully I found some that seem to work pretty much straight away.
17 October 2010
12:1975276I support the idea, but when they take 3 bloody days to warm up I lose patience! Perhaps I am the product of the "now" generation? Or maybe just the "within a reasonable period" generation............?
17 October 2010
12:2275277Colin you are right they are ugly but do last a lot longer.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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17 October 2010
14:0875289There are conventional low energy normal shaped one`s about Melissa, but I`ve yet to find out why they`re not offered in preference to those austere example`s they keep dishing out.
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Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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17 October 2010
15:2275291I think I read somewhere they're dishing out the cheap ones free so they can meet EU uptake targets as a means for reducing greenhouse gases.
Keith Sansum1
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17 October 2010
16:3875304I don't fnd them any good at all
and have to go to another room if I need light
defeats object realy
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17 October 2010
16:3975305Open your eyes then!!!!! lol
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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17 October 2010
16:4875307could answer that
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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17 October 2010
18:2975320keith is right. they are useless when trying to read or study something close up.
i use them in the hall, stairs and landing, certainly not in the living room.
17 October 2010
19:0975328i posted earlier about the changes in sustainability which are being brought in.
Free bulbs are subsidised by govt and yes some take a while but as you get used to them you will realise that the energy saving is huge. One of my pet hates are the downlight bulbs GU10s which can be 50 watts which can easily be replaced by equivalent 5 watt bulbs. I had a house in canterbury that had 20 of theses bulbs in the living room - with 2KW coming from the ceiling they didnt need heaters!! in the summer it was boiling hot.
I have installed the various energy types in my office if anyone wishes to see the differences.
You wont be able to buy incandescent bulbs soon anyway .....
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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17 October 2010
19:2575329They are improving all the time - we have 110V low energy ones at the Drop Redoubt and they warm up in nearly no time and give quite a natural light.
Come look next week :)
Been nice knowing you :)
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
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17 October 2010
19:3575332Those of you that have trouble reading by them why not get a higher wattage bulb, I have had no problem at all.
Colin...
The Age Concern shop takes bulbs and we sell them when we have a box full, so I assume other charity shops do the same.
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Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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17 October 2010
19:5275336Thank you Jan, I`ll get them to you. Do you run the age concern shop, and if so, whereabout`s are you?
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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17 October 2010
20:2175337Thankyou Colin, they will be gratefully received. Our Manageress is an unpaid volunteer and has been running the shop for over fourteen years, surely she deserves a mention in the Queen's Honours list.
I will be there on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday morning it would be nice to meet you, (this Tuesday from about 10.00am), I'm the old, fat one.
We are opposite Blackmans just before you reach the Charlton Centre, we usually have boxes, books and clothes outside, if in a car you can park outside to drop them off. I guess you never get up to our part of town or you would know of us.
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Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
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18 October 2010
07:5075363An entrepreneur in Berlin has imported 60 and 100w bulbs from China and is selling them as mini-heaters. That's one way round it I suppose.
Terry
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18 October 2010
10:4275406I like the low energy light bulbs because they were free and our cupboard is still full of them havent had to buy one for two years .
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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18 October 2010
10:4375407tHEY are no good for reading in lving room.
Can we get some higher voltage ones some where
any one know?
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Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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18 October 2010
17:0075504Thank Jan, I`ll try and get down to you in the week. I did walk up from the town to Cherry Tree this morning, and back down along the river. I have passed your shop a number of times now, but never actually taken in which one it is.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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18 October 2010
18:3875511colin, it is next door to the high class gentleman's outfitters "phillips and drew".