January 4, 2009
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Energy Saving GU10s
Have just installed 3 in my sitting room. Not entirely convinced, it’s all rather dim in here now. Next time I’ll get 11W and not 7W. Still, having bought them, I am not buying replacements just yet. I am parsimonious like that. I think I’m going to transfer them into my bedroom, since I don’t have the light on in there quite so much, and I do like to be able to see what I’m doing in my sitting room. With the bedroom, I mostly sleep, or have the light just above the bed on, and that’s about it.
God, but it’s dark in here. My uplighter also needs a new bulb, which does not help matters… Think, however, it would be a lovely lighting level in the bedroom.
Slightly concerning is how warm the old 50W GU10s got. Really, really, really warm.
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Swopped the rooms’ bulbs over. Much better. Bedroom has a near perfect lighting level, and the sitting room is lit properly again. Very odd, considering both rooms are teh same sort of size. The bedroom, however, has paler walls and this makes something of a difference. Now off to buy new bulb for uplighter, to see if this solves the problem. If not, I’m going to conclude that the socket is frying uplighters, as this will be the second that has died since I moved in. I do hope not. I don’t want to buy a third.
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The only thing that sucks about those bulbs is that you are supposed to recycle them, as they have transformers on them because they are florescent light bulbs. *Sigh* sometimes we have to move backwards to move forwards yes?
@mswhitney - Would help if I could find the relevant information on the local Council’s website, so I knew *where* to recycle them. I think it’s about a mile away, but I’m not sure. However, all said website does is tell me to use energy saving bulbs. I suspect that it’s banking on the fact that said bulbs are not due to require replacing for a few years… Sigh. ~x~