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The industry is WAY too young to state, unequivocally, that CFLs are superior to incandescent. Without legislative strong-arm enactments, the 50-cent, incandescent light bulb would never be replaced by another technology. Without legislation, airbags for cars may still be something newfangled now. I have been using CFLs since 1989. Plenty do work well and last a few thousand operating hours even in typical home use. In my experience, early failures are mostly in these areas: 1. Ones overheating in downlights. Not all can take the heat accumulation in downlights. Screw-_base_ ones over 23 watts fare especially badly there. 2. Higher wattage ones in small enclosed fixtures. 3. Lights of America brand, though they may have done better after I largely stopped buying them in 2001. 4. Dollar store ones - I find a lot of things wrong with most of those. I find those to largely be stool specimens. Bad things there include the only smoky CFL failures in my experience, 100% rate of falling short of light output claims in my experience, and a high rate of lousy color and/or lousy color rendering. 5. A bad run of 25 watt spirals around 2001 or so. 6. Ones with glow switch starters (they _b_link__ a few times when turned on) fare worse with frequent starting. But screw-_base_ integral-ballast ones with glow switch starters appear to me to have become obsolete in the mid 1990's or so. - Don Klipstein (
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