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Comments (12)georgez5il, I can sympathise to a very limited extent with the way that you feel about this particular posting, but cannot agree with your conclusions regarding being unable to answer the query in its totality. I feel that some information is better than non, and that other posters' are subsequently given chance to pick up the slack so-to-speak. I am also in favour of group involvement and this post gives an excellent opportunity for precisely that. Apologies for sounding a bit "preachy" on this one. ;-)...See MoreFlorescent light bulb question
Comments (26)My DH was the light nazi. When he went to bed, he thought all lights should be off, with the exception of my reading light. He even wanted the Xmas lights off, no matter that we had company and he was the only one going to bed. He also had a "thing" about bugs flying in the door. Once the police were chasing a motorcyclist in our neighborhood. I looked out the slider and saw helicoper lights that looked like they were coming in the house. I ran out to see what was going on. He followed me and then turned around and went in. He shut the screen door behind him. Because it was dark I did not realize it and walked into the screen door. I sliced the bottom of my foot on the rails. I was furious at him! AND that was the second time he had done that to me. The first time was at a condo in FL. One night he called me out to see a sea turtle laying her eggs. Unbeknownest to me, after I walked out he slid the screen shut. Yep, I turned around and walked into the screen....See MoreNeed help choosing recessing lighting bulbs and size
Comments (3)The Zephyr website lists a 50w PAR20 halogen bulb (screw in type) for your Breeze II. Knowing that, your local lighting store might be able to help you find lamps that would match up with it fairly closely. The lamps of this type that I found online were specified at 520 to 600 lumens, 2900K to 3500K color temp, and 90-100 CRI, so even buying the same type of lamp isn't guaranteed to give the same results when you replace a burned out lamp but maybe it's close enough. Since there's such a range in specs even on the same type bulb, you might go down to wherever you would normally buy bulbs (like Home Depot or Lowe's or your local lighting store) and buy one. Put it into a lamp that you own (it has a normal medium screw-in base) and shine it on the tiles. If you like that light, then look for lighting with those specs. This is a pretty simplistic approach, but at least you would know what kind of light you're going to get and know where to get replacements. If you have enough time, you could try calling the support people at Zephyr and ask about the specs on their lamps....See Morewhat price a light bulb?
Comments (18)The first one that I bought, I put into a table lamp, near the computer, that had a shade to keep glare out of one's eyes. After some effort, got the shade more or less perched on the cfl. About a month later, chasing fly, hit the shade .... good-bye, cfl. Didn't know of the mercury problem but had heard that one needed to dispose of all of the material from shattered fluorescent tubes with care, so collected the whole business carefully, put the pieces into a heavy plastic bag, then into a paper potato bag that then went into the regular garbage marked, "Glass". I figure that the claim to produce four times the light is stretching. Have some reservations about the quality of the light ... but getting used to it. Have heard to use in locations where lights seldom turned off, that turning on and off means that they don't last long. Have some (unshaded, but out of line of vision) near the computer, one in what used to be a bedlamp that's now behind a board offering shading, over my desk, plus one in a table lamp in the living room. And ... there's a tube over the sink in the kitchen and a curly one in the central ceiling fixture. So - do I turn on and off every time I go into the kitchen after dark? If I leave them on when kitchen unoccupied, even for a few minutes ... minimal real saving of power. Question: do the long tubes have mercury, too? I've heard that the coating on the inside of the tube carries some kind of poisonous material, to be carful not to get it near a cut. Question 2: Is the mercury in the curly ones in the tube? I've heard that it's in the base, relating to the mechanism that gets the thing started. Good wishes for getting well lit on Saturday night! ... blessed with a designated driver (if away from home - arranging for one for non-overnight-guests, if at home). ole joyful...See More
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