GE 13-Watt Energy SmartTM - 8 Pack - 60 watt replacement
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of GE 13-Watt Energy SmartTM - 8 Pack - 60 watt replacement
Customer Review: A Must Have for the 21st Century Home
Summary: 4 Stars
There is really no other place to pick up an 8 pack of these for this price. They come from a name brand company and they are more beneficial for everyone. It not only lasts longer than incandescents but also costs less to light. The size of them may be an issue for some if you are placing these in tight places, since they do stick out maybe a mm or two more than its incandescent equivalent. I would definitely recommend picking these up and replacing all those money spending incandescents anyone has around their house.Customer Review: A little big.
Summary: 4 Stars
I've used them for about a month now and they are all still working well. They produce a lot of light and light up relatively quick. the only problem I had with them is that they are rather large compared to the incadescent bulbs they replaced and some of the smaller mini-spirals available today and they didn't fit well in hardly any of my fixtures. Luckily, they are all open fixtures and the only annoyance I had was that they stuck out a little bit.Customer Review: Amazing Value
Summary: 5 Stars
These are fantastic bulbs. They do take about 20 seconds to reach full strength when turned on, but they produce nice light and use less electricity. I replaced just about every bulb in my apartment, including the vanity lights.
I'm happy!
Customer Review: An excellent deal on bulbs
Summary: 5 Stars
These bulbs showed up very quickly, well packaged, none broken. This is an amazing deal on bulbs of this type...way cheaper than you could get them at any store I know of. I ordered four packages of eight so I'd get free shipping. It will take me forever to use them, but come on...a lifetime supply of fluorescent bulbs for a little over $25 is a no brainer.Customer Review: Another factor for CFLs--- CRI; also, shortened life factors
Summary: 3 Stars
Another rating that isn't often listed for CFL bulbs that can be helpful is the Color Rendering Index, a score on a scale of 100 that reflects how accurately a source of light renders colors, compared with noontime daylight. The highest CFL rating I've seen is about 90-91, but some fluorescent tubes can go as high as 98. The lowest I've ever seen for any fluorescent light is in the 30s, but more common low ratings run 50s-70s. A lot of 2700K CFLs run about 82.
- - Most Color-Temperature scales treat 5000K as the color of noonday sunlight, though a few peg it at 5500K. Color Temp is the color of the light, while CRI measures how the light renders colors. Natural daylight isn't just one color, but is made up of a full spectrum of colors, the whiteness of it being the net effect. Fuller-spectrum light has more colors in it, and this can explain why color temp doesn't correlate directly with CRI.
- - Once I replaced eight 4' tubes in an office for a friend who had been using warm white tubes with daylight tubes with CRIs about 95. Immediately, everyone present noticed how the colors in the room became noticeably more vivid. Good color rendering makes visual tasks easier, as long as you're not not in a room that's painted in one color, filled with objects that are all of the same color.
- - Warm white CFLs aren't yellow, like incandescents; they're a kind of pinkish orange. It reminds me of vomit, and I'm not surprised that many people find it ugly and resist CFLs. The whiter light of a high-CRI 5000K CFLs may be an adjustment from the warmth of incandescents, but this can be offset some when they're installed behind paper lampshades, and what you're getting used to is, in the end, a better light for visual tasks.
- - CRIs aren't often included in retailers' ratings, but can be found on manufacturers' websites.
- - As for shortened life- the bases of CFLs contain the electronics, and they last longest when installed base-down, so that the heat rising from the bulb doesn't make the electronic components hot. Installing them in base-up ceiling fixtures will shorten their lives noticeably (say, by half or a third), but installing them in enclosed fixtures shortens their lives by about 80%, in my experience. One solution is to leave off the globes, but in my apartment I've installed 2" collars with large holes for ventilation, and that helps a lot. (A canned-tomato can or Progresso soup can is just the right diameter for many old ceiling fixtures). Even with a moderately shortened life, these things save so much electricity that I come out ahead, if they're bought relatively cheaply.