RE: CBUS and CFL's

["Richard Malcolm-Smith" <rich_lists@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If they are anything like the ones that I have used, dont bother.

there are some GE ones available in NZ, $20 a piece as opposed to the $5
for
normal ones.

Anyway..

They only dim to abut 25-30%, and thats when the dimmer control has a
normal
one at about 50% or so, and if you go to low, then it goes out.

It wont come on till its almost at 100%, so forget fading in these.

Hopefully someone engeneers a better one then these

Oh, and they only make them in that ickky 2700k colour, not 4000 or 6500k

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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Stuart Poulton
Sent: Thursday, 18 January 2007 8:07 p.m.
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] CBUS and CFL's



Dimmable CFL's are on the way, last I heard at least one UK distributors
was hoping to hold them as a stock item in Feb.

I'll chase them up.

Cheers

Stuart

On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 20:49 +0000, Chris Hunter wrote:
> AIUI ... to dim fluorescent's, they need to have four pins & to be
> operated at high frequency ... the usual compact fluorescents aren't
> like this ..


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