Any 3-way Spiral CFL lights ? anywhere ?

[TooManyGizmos]

Have I just missed seeing 3-way Spiral CFL lights on the shelves ?

Are they made or can they NOT be made ?

I want incan. replacements , but I don't want just one brightness . Be nice to have a 3-way that doesn't blow out in 6 months.

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[tsmith35]

I've seen them at Target, Home Depot, Walmart...

http://www.google.com/products?q=3-way+compact+fluorescent+bulb

I found some 150W equiv CFL bulbs on sale at Target a few weeks back. Garage is lit up great now. Was going to get a few 3-ways for the house, but don't use the lamps enough to justify the cost of the bulbs.

 

[Lynx_Arc]

you can find 3 way CFLs but IMO the light levels are too close together and the high is not bright enough. I wish I could get one that does something like 10/100/250 as the 50/100/150 you cannot tell a lot of difference between the 100/150 levels and the 150 seems more like about 120 to me

 

[TooManyGizmos]

WoW ... thanx tsmith35 ,

I honestly didn't know these existed .

These should produce much less heat from table lamps .

I stopped searching for them many,many months ago.

I was told back then by Homedepot that they were not made.

I guess I should learn to use the Google search more often. Just hadn't thought about em in a long time .

Thanks for that link ...... I'm off to the stores .

 

[TorchBoy]

http://www.officedepot.com/a/produc...-EC81-DE11-B7F3-0019B9C043EB&mr:referralID=NA

Light output: 50/100/150 lumens
Energy used: 12/23/29 watts

So that's a whopping 4-5 lm/W. Someone explain these to me. Does 3-way mean three mode?

 

[TooManyGizmos]

Yes ... it means low/med/high .

 

[Lynx_Arc]

http://www.officedepot.com/a/produc...-EC81-DE11-B7F3-0019B9C043EB&mr:referralID=NA


So that's a whopping 4-5 lm/W. Someone explain these to me. Does 3-way mean three mode?

three way bulbs have a screw in base with a metal ring around a smaller tip so there is 3 connections. typically you get 1,2, 1+2 (3) when they are used. If you put a standard bulb you get off/on/on/off instead of low/med/high/off

 

[TooManyGizmos]

And your lamp has to have a 3-way socket & switch for the 3-way bulb to work .

 

[Black Rose]

I've been looking at these locally for awhile....the problem I have with them is that they are too tall to fit into the lamps we have.

In some cases, the ballasts are also too wide to fit.

 

[WildChild]

I purchased some 4 years ago at Canadian Tire. They were on sale at $12 CAD for two bulbs (one warm white and one cool white). Bought 2 packs. I'm still on my first bulb and it has been running for around 7K hours. As for the levels beeing too close, I find the medium level to be useless. I'm always using this bulb either on low or on high.

 

[TorchBoy]

And your lamp has to have a 3-way socket & switch for the 3-way bulb to work .

Ah, I see the light! Thanks Lynx_Arc and TooManyGizmos. We don't have them here.

 

[Lynx_Arc]

IMO 3 way CFLs would be better off two ways CFLs or forget them altogether because the medium and high modes always seem to be too close together in output.... the 100 watt 3 way CFLs are 30/70/100, the 150 or *claimed 50/100/150 but are more like 50/100/120. The problem being that medium+low modes are *added* together for the high mode on them the incan 3ways have two filaments and at times one will burn out so you have one mode in single mode and the same output in combined (3rd) mode.

 

[Tekno_Cowboy]

I'd stay away from the 3-way CFL's at Menards. They're a bit shorter than most, but the middle level is almost always dimmer than the low. :thinking: