George Leppla wrote:
>
> On 7/18/2011 7:38 AM, George wrote:
> > They were total junk when they first came out and like anything else in
> > high volume production they learned how to make improvements. I can't
> > remember the last time I changed a bad one. And the big thing they
> > overcame was the slow startup. Now you turn them on and they are at full
> > brightness.
>
> When we moved here 4 years ago, we replaced all the bulbs with CFL's. I
> think I have had to replace 4 or 5 of them... out of about 30. If we
> move, I'm taking them with me and will put the old bulbs back.

7 years at the current location, around 18 CFLs and three recent
replacements for ones that died of old age. One other replacement that
was an inadvertent casualty of a half wave dimmer.