[Greenbuilding] Subject: Re: [dimmable] compact fluorescent bulbs

[David Bergman]

At 06:48 AM 3/25/2007, Nick Pine wrote:
>Rob Tom writes:
>
>I replaced 16 base-up 75 W incandescents in a church ceiling with $20
>Phillips 23 W Marathon dimmables, then replaced 12 of them over the next 2
>years. Phillips supplied new lamps under their guarantee (including return
>postage :-), until they finally stopped making them and sent checks instead.
>Too bad. These were nice lamps with constant lumens per watt when dimmed, vs
>decreasing incandescent efficiency.


FYI, Philips currently makes 16 watt and 20 watt dimmable screwbase 
CFL's in their Marathon series. And they're now low-mercury as well.

David
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