Compact Florescent Lights vs Halogen Lights

[fairyheli2]

wait, why am i watching videos about lightbulbs?

[shadowwarrior97]

that halogen bulb puts out very white light. go halogen

[noreaga12326]

funny how the person who video taped this set his camera in a way to make the cfl and the halogen look like they have the same color. Only a moron would think that a cfl and halogen have the same exact light color. And anyone who thinks that a cfl has "warm light color" needs to get his eyes checked out.

[bottle2lip]

my 2700 kelvin CFL's from sylvania produce almost the same shade of light, color as a regular bulb to my eyes..warm, but not overly warm..and not cool.

been running 3 years constantly, the newer one's are better

[kyle92223]

60 true watts of CFL would trash the lumen output of 60 watts incandescent . So CFL for the win, unless you are mentally challenged.

[jptl2]

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[Hobby331]

The Compact Florescent are one big scam. Expensive, 50% breaks down in couple of months, light is bad, they got poison inside, un-recycable plastics and manufacturing them produces heaps of pollution. I've put them inside whole house but in 6 months went back to old style ones.

[Paspiedreamcast]

CFL's are bad for the environment. The mercury present in them is poisonous when disposed of or when the bulb is broken.

[ceskydrifter]

Have not seen any reduction in energy usage, and certainly they do not last any longer unless you keep them on all the time.

Not only that they cost more to produce not only in materials but also in energy, then there is cost of distribution as they take 2 times the space, 4 times the packaging material and weight 20 times the 60 cents equivalent Edison Bulb. In the winter the saving is NIL as the heat they produce helps the heat the house. In short, educate yourself!

[ceskydrifter]

Have not seen any reduction in energy usage, and certainly they do not last any longer unless you keep them on all the time.

This is a rip off. Not only that they cost more to produce not only in materials but also in energy, then there is cost of distribution as they take 2 times the space, 4 times the packaging material and weight 20 times the 60 cents equivalent Edison Bulb. In the winter the energy saving is NIL as the heat they produce helps the heat the house. In short, educate yoursef

[Procrastinater09]

if u dont knoow what your talking about, dont post a video!

[LifesHardLessons]

I'm all for using less energy, and saving money on my electric bill. But does anyone really think we can save the planet by switching to these bulbs? I switched before I knew how much mercury is in each bulb, now I'm worried

[stickedU]

CFL is superior to all very simple . More light less energy. Very easy choice.

[gilegraam]

@stickedU except they have crappy color, contain poisonous mercury, they flicker and they never live up to the marketed age (they rarely come to 2500 hours)

[Membrane556]

CLFs used to be a good deal back in the 90s as they'd last for years but the new ones are trash they run hot and burn up after just a few months.

BTW stay away from walmart GV brand they can catch on fire.

I think made in China CFLs should be banned since they don't last long and are often unsafe.

[masterd151]

Incandescent for the win

[firelitealarms997]

i have cfl light bulbs in all my lights

[DeathX771]

I'll take the Edison light bulb until they come out with a truly efficient and safe bulb.

For those that haven't taken chemistry, yes mercury is damaging at any level and and it will impact in the future (depends on the persons physiology). Those that doubt please do a thorough research.

[TheGeek1028]

Uh, dude, the glass is probably more dangerous than the mercury. 5 mg of mercury (average in a typical size CFL) is not gonna kill you. It's not even enough to affect you in any way.

[fawaz008]

Yeah sorry i don't know how it happened

sorry again..!!

[fawaz008]

A gay lamp ?? are you retarded !!

[RU469NO]

People dont realize you use more energy if you live in cooler climates. By Switching to CFL's you loose the heating factor of incandescents. Thus using double of what you saved in electric on gas. Not to mention Mercury, Bad color redention CRI, RFI interference, high cost, .52 power factor, Cheaper for GE and Phillips to produce them over seas than incandescent here. Lobbiest at work here. "Hey lawmakers let us help you US Gov to get rid of the stock piles of mercury you have" Hmm?

[LightningT5]

In some places in my house, like the Living Room, Study or my Bed Room I couldn't give a toss if a CFL only used 1/4 of the electricity of a Halogen or Incandescant Bulbs, I want decent light colour not some gay light colour

[drummer92unknow]

One thing to note that the halogen in this test is a 130 or 230 volt one. Halogens are brightest when the voltage is lower and the current is higher. Typically halogens found in cars and newer halogen spots are all 12 volts.

P=VI( power=voltage X Current). Say if this bulb of 60 watts had an input of 12 volts, the current would be 5A. that wii be hell lot brighter than the gay CFL.

People don't use the 12v halogen because they require a transformer which is troublesome.

[TheBrassHole]

CFLs make my vision blurry and give me a head ache, and the light alters colors. Give me halogen on a dimmer switch any day. I'm with you bro.

[ToobMug]

The lifespan comparison is not accurate.

The halogens in this video claim to be good for two years, and on the back they say something about four hours per day (although I can't read it clearly). That's nearly 3000 hours, not 500.

Philips rate theirs for two years as well, but further explain that that is 2000 hours.

[Amishman35]

I have a 42 watt (yes, really 42 watts, not 42 watt 'equivalent') CFL, it's still going strong since mid 2004. I also have a 5 watt tiny CFL that I use most of the time. I screw in the 42 watt when I'm printing photos (color is a sickly orange). The good thing about the halogen one is that it's good for stairwells and other places where it's hard to change the bulb, and you don't want mercury accumulating when you drop it. The nonhalogen incandescent 750-1500 hour bulbs are old hat.

[CleanGreenLight]

Let me try some numbers:

The average household has 50 light bulbs, with an average life of 10 years. Each bulb contains 20mg of mercury, so the mercury waste from one household is 1 gram every decade. With a toxic TLV of 25 microgrammes per cubic metre, that is potentially 40,000 cubic metres of toxic mercury vapour.

There are 30 million households in the UK alone, so that represents 30 metric tonnes of mercury released every decade, enough to pollute over 1000 cubic kilometres per decade.

[CleanGreenLight]

Compact fluorescent light bulbs release highly toxic mercury vapour when broken. The TLV (Threshold Limit Value) is only 25 micrograms per cubic meter (OSHA).

It will cost your local authority dearly to provide for their disposal.

They are not dimmable, they are slow to warm up, have a tendency to flicker, and have a poor color.

They will not save much electricity. If you normally need to heat your home, the so-called 'waste' heat from conventional bulbs helps heat your home.

[TheBrassHole]

Not to mention the blurred vision and head aches.

[gewehrmeister3777]

Those are 2,000 hour rated life lamps not 500 hour.

[cslc777]

When CFL's are in popular use the toxic mercury pollution will dwarf the carbon pollution from powering incandescent bulbs. Hopefully LED technology will develop quickly enough to prevent the ecological disaster compact fluorescent bulb's will cause.

[respectthe1911]

Yay someone is worried about the mecury

[woww1994]

its either

flickering turn on cfl

or slow warm up

they had to choose one

did you no it cost less to change a cfl bulb than a normal one because a normal one u have to keep on changing it

[hboy007]

the flourescent bulb needs some time to heat up!

[my83merc]

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