Fluorescent Switch
The realization of mood lighting and energy savings – Fluorescent lamps are adjustable?
Dimmers can be given more relaxed at home, saving energy. However, with increasing prevalence of fluorescent or Compact fluorescent lamps, many people wonder what their options for using a controller with the lights – or if it saves more power to use regular CFL bulbs use halogen or incandescent or dimmer.
Let's start by putting to rest some misunderstandings fluorescent energy use compared to incandescent and halogen lamps.
Many owners put in halogen bulbs, From the 1990s, the misconception that these fires are more efficient than incandescent bulbs. In fact, energy efficiency is more or less the same as incandescent bulbs. So do not think you're saving energy by using them.
The CFL, on the other hand, are very effective – it takes about a quarter of the electricity to light CFLs to light an incandescent lamp or halogen with the same light output. Sometimes that lasts about eight times longer than incandescent bulbs.
So if you use a controller primarily to save energy can be better than changing their incandescent and halogen lamps, compact fluorescent lamps, and maintain full drive, or return a standard on-off switch. It will give you more light with less energy.
If you want a soft illumination all the time, a way is to bulbs that are not so bright. You go down, for example, an incandescent lamp of 100 watt incandescent bulbs of 60 watts, less than an incandescent bulb of 100 watts with a CFL of 18 watts, but we have less light and consume less electricity. Of course, CFL solution will save much more electricity in the long term.
But more likely to want the best of both worlds: low operating costs and the life of CFLs, with the flexibility to mitigate when there is no need of its full light.
You may have heard that you can not put a CFL in a regular ordinary dimmer. In fact, you may, but is not recommended because it can reduce the lifetime of the bulb. There is no greater risk of explosion or fire facility a regular CFL in a standard voltage regulator – you just increase the risk of shortened lamp life. And as the highest price CFL bulbs is offset by the fact that incandescent bulbs to survive in a ratio of 8 to 1, make regular CFLs from a standard controller destroys the cost advantage.
If you choose to dim compact fluorescent lamps have two real options: to buy a special dimmer that is compatible with compact fluorescent lamps, compact fluorescent lamps that are controlled buy designed to work with standard shock absorbers.
Both options come out with energy saving benefits of CFLs, and the ability of dim compact fluorescent lamps. But at least for now, CFLs more affordable option adjustable seem to be compatible fluorescent dimmers are cost prohibitive, while the price difference between standard and compact fluorescent adjustable is tiny.
Consider the total cost of these two options, for a device with three 60 watt bulbs. Suppose you have a voltage regulator and standard incandescent bulbs. If you want to upgrade CFLs, your choices are:
1. Installation of three 13-watt compact fluorescent lamps standard $ 3 each, and a fluorescent dimmer $ 49. Cost Total: $ 58.
2. Go on three adjustable 13-watt CFL for $ 3.50 each, and use the existing controller. Total cost: $ 10.50!
As you can tell, with existing dimmer is a more affordable alternative. From two options for using the same amount of energy, in terms of payback of the solution dimmable compact fluorescent lamps is certainly much shorter.
Even if you need to buy a dimmer switch because nobody, still makes sense to go with a standard switch and adjustable compact fluorescent lamps. You can obtain a controller standard for under $ 10. Same fashion one for $ 25 is more affordable than a controller of fluorescence to $ 49. And with the cost difference between standard and compact fluorescent lamps controlled so small the only way to be cost competitive fluorescent dimmers is that if the price drops considerably, what will probably be in the coming years.
If your only reason to use a voltage regulator with compact fluorescent lamps save money, and you do not have a regular dimmer, I suggest you stay with compact fluorescent lamps based and give the speed of light. Use the money you save on the speed of light to buy more compact fluorescent lamps for other areas of your home. Regulators voltage resulted in significant savings for incandescent and halogen because the bulbs were so unnecessary. For example, my playroom six 50 watt bulbs on a dimmer. Using the controller half the energy that use 150 watts instead of 300 watts. Assuming one hour per day, which would save 150 x 365 watts or 55 kilowatt hours per year.
But if we change the 13-watt halogen bulbs Adjustable CFLs would save 81 kilowatts hours per year in full force. Through the middle, just put about 13 extra kilowatt hours per year – which is about $ 1.30 worth of electricity. Not really much to be useful to consider this alternative.
The reaction of consumer compact fluorescent lamps controlled was less overwhelming. It is true that there are some initial problems with these fires – early burn-out, flashing lights and ringing. These problems were more or less fixed in the latest compact fluorescent adjustable. But if there is a strong motivation for the CFL to dim, I recommend staying with standard compact fluorescent bulbs for a year until the market offers a wide range of options to fluorescent lamps adjustable. Who know – in a year or two fluorescent regulator switches could be as cheap than standard regulators.
About the Author
Robin Green owns Green-Energy-Efficient-Homes.com, a website that helps people save energy in their homes. Go to this website for help on cutting your energy use on heating, cooling, lighting, and other household activities. For more on compact fluorescent bulbs, see the dimmable compact fluorescent bulbs page and the CFL savings calculator.
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