Why You Should Stop Using CFL Light Bulbs Immediately
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- Опубліковано 1 вер 2022
- Could the most dangerous appliance in your home be your table lamp? If you’re using CFL bulbs, you could be letting more than light into your life.
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What type of lighting do you like in your house?
LED.
Halogen and Incandescent, because my eyes are very sensitive to flickering. But since i am not a millionaire, i cant spend all my money on electricity cost, so i only have that in my bedroom, because i spend most of my time there. The rest of the house is LED. LED is a great technology, but most time they put cheap shit electronics into the bulbs so it flickers and last even less than 1000 hours. Also often LED bulbs are cold white coloured, and thats also bad for sensitive eyes.
@@PanaSonyc LEDs flicker when they age just like CFLs. If not more.
@@homeguestunton Thank you!
CFLs. I have a vintage one on my room
No matter what I will still use fluorescent
As a nerd obsessed with the 4th state of matter(plasma) I will never ever replace my fluorescent lamps with LEDs.
Amen!
You should stock up on them, once they're gone it's the blasted LEDs or plain candles...
@@foreigncontaminant2015 Unless they ban candles too. And when they will have nothing left to ban they will start banning earlier LEDs which were less efficient but lasted longer. And most importantly, they were still replaceable, not integrated light sources in the fuxture.
@@mernokallat645 You made an excellent point! Disposable LED fixtures, no standardization. Fluorescent tubes excelled at that: easily replaceable with no size (therefore) temperature and design constraints for the ballasts. Apart from LED strips with standalone drivers, all LED bulbs and fixtures are disposable, end their efficiency is overrated by conviniently ignoring driver AND cable (really low voltage after all) losses.
All I see in this movement is regulators patronizing us like small children, while forcing us to pay up and replace our gear. Instead of focusing on recycling. My oldest T8 tube with its bulky heavy choke has been in operation for nearly 25 years...outdoors!
@@foreigncontaminant2015 There is a neon sign in the US that was switched on continuously for 77 years. Discharge lamps can outlive LEDs. Some collectors have 120+ year old Geissler tubes that still work. And the best property of fluorescent lamps is that even after the electrodes are worn, some HF electronic ballasts output a high enough voltage to operate them. They can also be operated as electrodeless lamps by inductive and/or capacitive coupling. They also make great decoration near plasma gblobes/columns and Tesla coils.
Lol im keeping them in my bathroom fixtures as they come on soft then gradually get brighter. Try that at night with leds that are instantly blinding
wait what..discarded...ive just installed 21 new old stock CFL fixtures in my house....gotta stock up on them bulbs before they ban them completely...
I think cfl's are fine technology and they were really good for their time
I think so too. Bought a few of the last ones, fired them only once for testing - I'll make sure mine remain the last workable CFLs on the planet.
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What about for our eyes, LED kills our eyes
It's actually the blue leds that do that. Red leds in the 660nm range will actually help your eyes heal. They came out with red light therapy using red leds at 660nm. Most electronics stores sell leds of the red color at 660nm.
No it does not led is efficient lighting emitted dioede does not hurt your eyes because i got the adjustable LED on smartapps.
I’ve had cfl bulbs like 8 to 10 years the new led bulbs don’t last for more than 6 to 8 months and I’ve bought different brands they all have high failure rate
Yes, CFLs and Fluorescent tubes emit UV, but the glass is not made of Quartz so the UV won't go through. Germicdal Lamps that use the same technology are made of Quartz allowing the UVC do go through.
This got me interested as I recently came across some CFL bulbs at my relatives who are moving and wanted to get rid of so I started using then at my home and figured I'll just switch back to LED when they burn out. Looking online it appears the UV factor isn't a concern and especially when you're 30cm or more away and plus my lights are also covered with a frosted cover so there should be no health concerns from UV and none from mercury as long the bulb glass doesn't break of course. Is that correct from what you heard too?
This video is just greenwashing. LED marketers always try to compare the savings to incandescent. For example an 8w LED replaces a 60w incandescent. But and 8w LED replaces a 13w CFL? They don't talk about that. For the most part, idiots dumb enough to replace working CFL bulbs with LED is just how the market works. The economy does from glass to plastic. And plastic is known to be the biggest polluter.
yeah this is what i tell people ...to just leve their cfl's alone but people are stupid...whatcha gonna do...
My CFL bulb blew after 10 years and I came to watch this video because CFL bulbs are no longer available in the market
@@SamirKhan-te6zu that is why I am sticking with led basic and led rgb bulbs instead which it is better than cfl lightbulbs
i love my cfl bulbs i could care less if it takes 30 seconds or so for full brightness. im not that impatient.
I have CFLs that still work after 13 years of intense use.
@@filippocara0510 i use the huge 500 watt equivalent spiral cfl's mine was still working after 11 years but started giving off a little smoke so i got rid of it. i ended up buying new ones.
@@JxT1957 what is the wattage of the 500W equivalent? The cfl that i was talking about in the other comment is a Osram dulux mini twist 2700k 23W. Still working perfectly!
@@filippocara0510 105 watts
@@filippocara0510I had to replace 4 CFLs in my student apartment bathrooms within one year! It's a nightmare.
Now I suspect that once one of the bulbs starts to flicker, the other one gets damaged by that so once I replace the flickering one the other one doesn't last long.
Many of the points made against CFLs in this article are true, however one assertion is completely wrong. The author stated that CFLs dissipate about 80% of their input energy as heat - that's complete rubbish. The efficiency of CFLs is actually quite close to that of LEDs - not quite as good, but close. I happen to prefer the light produced by CFLs to that of LEDS - I always go for Warm White CFLs. I am mindful of the mercury content, but some of the negatives were a bit overstated. We all have used the original long format fluorescent tubes, and they are still widely used to light large spaces - eg supermarkets etc. These are nice and efficient - about the same as CFL and LED, but are much more practical than LED for large spaces. With modern "electronic ballasts" (instant start - no flashing), the old style fluoro tubes still have quite a healthy life ahead of them. You will probably have noticed that old style fluoro tubes have a very long lifespan - even longer and more efficient if you upgrade your fittings to electronic ballasts. Cheers John
Also theu DO make dimmable bulbs specofically that say on package dimmable in bold fwiw so for jjst looking to find the right bulb fwiw as a kid I knew if it was ,eant for it it would not be either unabke or fickle/flicker on an off by not enough voltage Iirc.. dimmers use the voltage... but for incandescence it adjusts the speeds of vibrations of the filament.
Hell of you may have noticed asca nerd I have the abilitu to heard a blinker bulb if I installed one of those from the packet into a mini incandescent "twinkle light" so in between c7 and c9 real og old fasjioned think a xmas story lights vs leds the mini incandescent light bulb can make a ting noise as the bimetallic strip folds or curls back an forth an warms the ear slightly to have stuck into or held up if ya hear good.. sound of it as it pulls away from the other side tehus turning on and off up to about 50 or 70 bulbs of the strand even if itsl onger depending how it wasi/is wired in the factory imo.
For ease I jist assume use rhe "hub light" fwiw for the base to switch bulbs for as to sjow so ik where the end or segment or sector of a strand is. And starts.
Tho yes it cam be put in. Any of the ligjtbulb sockets as it still should still work.
Instant start are the worst kind of ballast in terms of number of starts. I keep mine on standard chokes but with electronic starters.
CFLs and fluorescent lighting I prefer over LED so Im keeping them
1:35 _Haha, LEDs flicker too_
led arrays have been replacing high pressure sodium bulbs on roadways. it’s quite disorienting when one of them starts flickering and strobing because they’re going out.
you knowCFL has mercury liquid which i hate that toxic liquid so what the hell is your damn point?
@@josephfrye7342 _There’s only a small amount, so grow up and shut up._
Don't use CFL, got it.
I'll use good ol' MBFU instead!! thats better right??
Well led basic or rgb is more efficient and less heat now that is because it came with smart app for that instead of remote.
My led bulbs flicker and go out so much faster than the CFL bulbs. Any thoughts as to why(house built in 2018)
Gee, the government told me they’d save the world
1:35 fun fact: cfls have a magical thing known as a “capacitor” which filters the dc sine wave from the fb rectifier
Can’t afford a bright led light for the garage if you have a problem with it and get me a bright LED
I'm staying with my collection of SL* bulbs and circline/PL adapters.
i use flourascent since 2010.The light is cool and not harsh where led makes eye irritation i observed so far.
I think flourascent is the best for comfortness
CFL BULBS ARE GREAT I HAVE SOME INSTANT START ONES
I have a CFL light bulb outside at my moms house still works
Planet say thanks to my 15 years old circoline bulbs arond house.
I saved yesterday 4 cfl bulbs from the trash
CFL bulbs are still better than LEDs!
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No cfl bulbs has mercury and it’s worse
Why do i hear all the time how dangerous CFL bulbs are but i never hear about neon tubes. They are literally the same, just the CFL is smaller, and often the flickering is even worse.
Exacrly
CFLs contain mercury which is highly toxic. Neon tubes contain neon, argon, and other noble gases which are chemically inert and pose no risk to human health. That’s why.
I guess you mean fluorescent bulbs (the old straight ones)? Neon tubes are a completely different thing (the clear glass tubes glowing red used in store signs)
@@manw3bttcks Yes, thanks for correcting me!
its the mercury in cfls that folks are overreacting to, neon tubes are (mostly) filled with only neon
Just had one almost catch my daughter's room on fire
Still love cfl most greatest invention in human history dont teach me the color grade about cfl and led. Led sucks i don't know people are blind or what
WTF does that even mean??
It means i have proof
True. I have converted everything from LED back to CFL
@@SunsetfearOFFICIAL hurd to believe i had some screen issue's and eye pain ever since i switch cfl its gone i perfectly recover i think media jocking to us
Very true
Guess what, I got news for ya! LEDs also emit UV!
Nah I’m gonna keep them
Pov u watch fox 13 news
DUDE! stop using tech that has been reliably used for decades and switch over to this crappy new tech NOW!!!
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Yeah well you can forget LED also. All white LEDs give me and my better half migraines as well, because of the blue led mixture in white LEDs. We both insist in using incandescent bulbs, and continue to use them until the day we go of old age. You couldn't pay me ten million dollars to use one LED bulb! If the last incandescent bulb goes out, our house will go dark for ever......
Neither of us believe in supporting solar or wind power either. Y'al can keep that shit. We don't want no part in that or Brandon's BS agenda.
My brother in Christ I don't like Brandon's bs agenda either but solar has it's uses as does wind.
to power an entire grid? Definitely not.
But for emergencies and off the grid homesteads, definitely.
also for outdoor automatic lighting like pathway lights
Not sayin, radical, extremist environmental bullies gonna bully me. Candlelit and kerosene lantetns. Lol
The best light bulbs to use are your old-fashioned incandescent filament lights. Look up the dangers on your fluorescent lights very bad. And very bad for our mother Earth it contaminates with the Mercury that is in them
Na filament bulbs aren't the best tech.led with no mercury 5watts is replacing incandescent 40w-60w
the amount of mercury in a cfl is so little that it isnt even visible to the naked eye, but still incandescents beat any newer tech
Yep that’s why I think LED is the best!
LEDs are woke
What’s that supposed to mean?
@@stoopidhaters 🤡🤡 show vinny. of course you only use lights of any kind when you are awake.
@@diodedoode Vinny is a troll, just ignore them.
not all the best, they hurt my eyes and other people agree too