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posted by [personal profile] emperor at 09:06am on 30/10/2006
I thought that one of the points of energy-saving bulbs was that they lasted longer than normal bulbs? We put one in the spod room at Weathertop a matter of months ago, and it's died already :(

Thanks for offers of VDUs, BTW, much appreciated. I'll shout if/when it actually goes pop...

ETA: the bulb that went is an energy-saving bulb...
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posted by [personal profile] rmc28 at 09:14am on 30/10/2006
We find that the energy-saving bulbs last much longer than normal ones, but at least some of this is because they seem more resilient to wobbles in the power supply. Standard bulbs tend to pop quickly in this house.
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posted by [personal profile] emperor at 10:19am on 30/10/2006
Which is why it's so annoying this energy-saving one has lasted such a short period of time - it lasted less long than the "normal" bulb we had in before it!
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posted by [identity profile] james-r.livejournal.com at 09:25am on 30/10/2006
For the most part, standard energy saving light bulbs tend to last almost forever. I do have some extremely low wattage ones (4W) for the stairway, and those ones only seem to last for about a year or two :/ (they do get left on a lot more of the night than the bright ones however)
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posted by [personal profile] emperor at 10:20am on 30/10/2006
..so a few months is really very short for an energy-saving bulb. How annoying :(
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posted by [identity profile] edith-the-hutt.livejournal.com at 11:45am on 30/10/2006
*sympathies* Energy savers should last longer than that...
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posted by [identity profile] dave holland at 11:45am on 30/10/2006
When that happened to me, I posted the offending bulb back to the manufacturer and they sent me a new one for free.
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posted by [personal profile] gerald_duck at 12:21pm on 30/10/2006
Ah, but they're cheating.

Incandescent bulbs have got smaller in the last year and don't seem to last as long as they used to, subjectively by quite a large factor.
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posted by [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com at 12:31pm on 30/10/2006
AIUI, each time you switch an energy-saving bulb on or off reduces it's lifespan.
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posted by [identity profile] ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com at 08:46pm on 31/10/2006
Same is true of any bulb, isn't it?
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posted by [identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com at 09:35pm on 31/10/2006
Yes; but much more so for energy saving bulbs, I think.
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posted by [identity profile] velvetpurrs.livejournal.com at 10:06pm on 30/10/2006
Energy-savers are best used when left on/off for long periods, rather than on/off frequently. They can last as little as a few weeks/months if the latter rather than the former. It was a very expensive learning curve when I discovered that energy-saver in a PIR-activated outside light was a bad thing (cats and wind in a tree set it off repeatedly each night).

But as someone else suggested, worth posting back to the manufacturer, because they really should last longer than that.

I have several here that are now well into several years old.
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