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To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (433643)6/29/2011 2:51:58 PM
From: Brian Sullivan  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 794001
 
These dim-able CFL's don't get very good reviews and don't work with most of the existing dimmers switches. You'll need to replace your dimmer switches with the "new"/"expensive" kind in order for them to work.

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To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (433643)6/29/2011 3:23:09 PM
From: aladin  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 794001
 
I have new and old dimmer switches.

The issue is that the 1st gen 'dimmable' fluorescent's do not smoothly dim. My normal bulbs are 60 watts and at 50% show 30 and at 25% show 15.

The fluorescent's go 10-12-15-60 at 25-50-75 and 100%.

In a word - they suck. But its been almost a year - the technology may have improved.


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