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Going, Going, GONE!
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This Lowes store is already out of 100w GE Reveals and the reminder are running a little thin. I wonder if many people now know the 100w bulb is being phased out so they stockpiled on them? The Sylvania 100w soft whites are still in stock though.
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In this campign, there was a massive marketing everywere, of a helical energy saving CFL lamp called both TEVA and HY Amalgam, which was manufactured by a factory in China for Semicom Lexis LTD, Israel, under the Hyundai brandname.
These CFLs are marketed as a liquid mercury free lamps that have an amalgam (That should be reach 100degC or 212degF in order to begin releasing the mercury vapour) and so as an environmently friendlier products, and despite this, these lamps have no run-up time and comes up to full brightness as soon as they're ignited.
I think that these lamps have two amalgams: the main one in a cold spot and a run-up one that placed on the electrodes, so the mercury vaporizes and releases in less then the time requires for a tungsten filament to warm up.
Here is my video of one of these CFLs switching on .
I've heard several stories of people who replaced all their incandescents by CFLs. I guess they've been convinced with that "Hydro-Contact" promotion document... Maybe I should scan a page of one to show you guys LOL.
I'd be curious to see that article. I don't really trust what media says, they're good for creating false scandals... Maybe it's me, but it looks like California's got a new competitor
I don't noted that American Sylvania finally abandonded the BT shape in favor of the A shape, since Philips NA still jamming with their old Halogenas with the BT shape, and GE still produces similar BT shaped halogen lamps.
In many houses, incandescents were completely abandond in favor of CFLs and fluorescnets (Such as in my current father home, in which only in his bathroom he have 2 tungsten filament lamps, but they are actually mains voltage halogen capsules and not incandescent lamps).
@Alights, that high in Michigan? We have lots of CFLs here too, they just haven't exceeded incandescents in popularity yet. I notice supermarkets in Florida seem to have way less shelf space for incandescents than the stores out here.
Lowes still has some 100w bulbs but they increased the price on these and they are kinda on clearance.