On 2/9/07, Doug Braun <doug@dougbraun.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Yesterday my wife bought two CF bulbs (from Ikea)
> and put them into a ceiling light fixture that
> happened to be controlled by a dimmer. The dimmer
> didn't really dim them- if you turned it down below
> some threshold, the bulbs simply turned off.
>
> This evening I tried turning on the lamp, and neither
> bulb would work at all! (A third bulb in the fixture,
> a normal incandescent, still worked fine.)
>
> So, could the dimmer have somehow killed the CF bulbs,
> or is it just a coincidence, and I should avoid
> buying light bulbs from Ikea?
Some dim, most don't. They're sensitive to the AC waveform, I think.
If it doesn't say "safe to use with dimmers" on the package, don't.
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David Scheidt
dmscheidt@gmail.com
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