[Greenbuilding] mercury in CFLs/reusable CFL ballasts

[David Bergman]

There aren't that many separable ballast and bulbs made for screw 
base sockets, but they do exist. Check out TCP, www.tcpi.com, for one.

They are becoming more available in the new GU24 ballast socket.

David
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At 01:03 AM 5/29/2007, Reuben Deumling wrote:
>Time was you could get CFLs where the ballast was reusable and you
>just had to replace the glass tubes that had a pin-socket. Are these
>still made? Any recent experience with them? I purchased a bunch made
>by ABCO in the mid 1990s which I still have and use. They are pretty
>bulky and this was before tubes got all curly-cueey, so they were also
>quite long and thus didn't fit into some sockets or globes. I could
>imagine with all that has happened to make CFL ballasts more compact
>there may be a more user-friendly newer version around...(?) On the
>assumption that the mercury is in the ballast and not the glass, this
>should also help reduce the generation of hazardous waste, all else
>being equal.
>
>Reuben Deumling
>
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