[Gargamel]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

incandescent bulbs (the "They aint broke so dont fix em bulbs" as i call them.)

Aside from them being banned in Australia, I believe. Aussies confirm?

EDIT2:

Governments around the world have passed measures to phase out incandescent light bulbs for general lighting. The aim is to encourage the use and technological development of more energy-efficient lighting alternatives, such as compact fluorescent lamp (CFLs) and LED lamps. Brazil and Venezuela started to phase them out in 2005,[1] and the European Union, Switzerland,[2] and Australia[3] started to phase them out in 2009.[4] Likewise, other nations are planning scheduled phase-outs: Argentina,[5] Russia, and Canada in 2012,[6] and Malaysia in 2014.[7] Although the United States is not phasing out incandescent light bulbs, it has set minimum efficiency standards for lighting which preclude most legacy incandescent designs; these minimum standards phase in between 2012 and 2014.[8]

But yeah, with any electrical item, if it stops working, unplug it. Trying to force electricity through an item that doesn't want to leads to bad things.


But considering (any I'm quoting from the top of my head, so feel free to correct) that you can run a 'kinky curly' for a whole year on the same amoutn of juice that it takes to run an Incandescent bulb for one day...... I'll stick with the kinky curly until I can afford LED's.


EDIT: Meh:

Energy efficiency

For a given light output, CFLs use 20 to 33 percent of the power of equivalent incandescent lamps.[18] Since lighting accounted for approximately 9% of household electricity usage in the United States in 2001, widespread use of CFLs could save as much as 7% of total U.S. household usage.[19]