GE 13-Watt Energy SmartTM - 8 Pack - 60 watt replacement
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Product Details
Manufacturer: GEModel: Energy Smart 60
Product features:
- Replace your 60 watt bulbs with these energy efficient 13 watt bulbs that last 5 years per bulb.
- Small compact size. Easy open store pack.
- Electronic flicker-free starting.
- 1 CFL bulb lasts as long as 8 incandescent bulbs.
- Light output - 825 lumens. Energy used - 13 watts. Life - 8000 hours.
Tools and Hardware Reviews of GE 13-Watt Energy SmartTM - 8 Pack - 60 watt replacement
Customer Review: These are great and I'll tell you why...
Summary: 5 Stars
Transaction Details:
Paid $6.99, 2 day shipping was free with Amazon Prime (which I got a year free by registering as a student).
The Juicy Details:
I live in South Florida (Miami/ Ft Lauderdale area) and the cheapest you can regularly find these bulbs is about $10.00 for a pack of 5 at Walgreens. I've seen a 6 pack at WalMart for $11.88 and of course online for a little less than $10.00 (before the shipping charges). None of these prices include the taxes (6-7% depending whether you get them in Miami or Ft Lauderdale). A regular/old fashioned/ traditional/ incandescent bulb of 60w costs between $0.80-$1.00 each (before taxes)? SOOO... when you do the math, pricewise this 8 pack for $6.99 is a definite winner.
All scientific debate aside: These are more durable, produce a better quality of light, and are more efficient than the "regular/ old fashioned" bulbs. Why?
1.) Flick a traditional bulb nice and hard, now assuming that the actual glass hasn't buckled; exploding shards of glass everywhere, you'll probably now hear a slight rattling as the filament that produces the light is either completely broken off or is severely weakened such that it could break at anytime- leaving you a dead bulb. Same experiment on a CFL bulb (outside of course) and not only does the glass feel more resilient it is VERY unlikely that the bulb itself shatters, further because of the basic construct of a CFL bulb there's no rattling (no filament)-> no damage ->no loss of ability to produce light. 1:0 (CFL vs Incandescent)
2.) Traditional bulbs (by nature) have a very intense illumination power, but that intensity isn't uniform. Without getting into the particle physics, think of a lamp on a side table in your living room with a traditional 60w bulb... got the image?... now imagine looking at that lamp without a lamp shade... pretty painful isn't it? Now think of you walking into the bathroom when you wake up at 5.30am for class/work and the sky is just getting purple... now you flip on the light and a traditional bulb turns on... first thing? CLOSE YOUR EYES, wince, whatever you normally do to cover your eyes. Now imagine both scenarios with CFL bulbs... compared with the first example the light isn't as focused on one tiny point of super intensity (the filament), it's spread out over the entire glass bulb (coil) meaning there's only minor discomfort at having a bright light in your vision. Compared with the second example the intensity is also not as bad because there's a warm up period where the "light" is spreading out through the entire bulb (coil), meaning that wouldn't have to close your eyes, or wince nearly as much because the light intensity increases slowly over time giving your eyes time to adjust. Not only is this more comfortable for you but it's way healthier on your eyes, which are your ONLY natural tools to perceive how good the quality of light really is. 2:0 (CFL vs incandescent)
3.) Incandescent bulbs "may be slightly brighter", but when they are using 60 watts compared to the 13 watts that the CFL equivalents use- words like "may be" and "slightly" just don't cut it for me. CFL's efficiency in a small part is because they are less fragile (as I mentioned before), and less delicate because the part that actually emits the light is spread out along the entire length of the bulb coil instead of being like a lightly woven thread of metal hanging from a few small hooks. Think of it like this- is it more efficient to push a door open with the tip of a pen or with the palm of your hand? If you were using the same force both times, then you could easily push the door open with your palm and not even budge the door with the pen tip. While the force you are pushing that pen into the door with is greater at its point than at any specific point on the palm of your hand, you aren't getting much done with that door- you'd need more force to accomplish opening the door, which is less efficient. In the same way, incandescent bulbs use more electricity to "push" light from a small concentrated point versus a CFL bulb that "pushes" light from a larger spread out surface- the result? You get nearly the same about of light for 21.67% of the electricity a traditional incandescent bulb uses (13w/60w= 0.21666...7), AND it takes a lot longer for the CFL bulb to "burn out"- even if it doesn't last 5-10 years like some of you expect it to based off of optimistic advertising (oops, is this really the first time you've heard of something that doesn't work EXACTLY as it says in an ad/textbook/fairytale?). 3:0 (CFL vs incandescent)
Why is any of this important? WELL, in my case I travel to medical school in the Caribbean and while some of the houses for rent are gorgeous, the island is small and in the middle of nowhere (I assume they thought this would give us students less distractions) and as such- many "newer technologies" are difficult/ ridiculously expensive to come by because they are not cost effective for the average citizen (the average Grendian citizen doesn't make nearly as much as the average US citizen). So it means that I have to buy CFL bulbs here and bring them with me to the island, as I am there for 4-5 months at a time, I need to bring a lot of things-> I don't have the space to pack more delicate lightbulbs to keep them from being damaged beyond repair, they need to be more sturdy to survive the trip. Why bring lightbulbs at all then? A/C is still a luxury in many MANY places and it drives the electricity bill to sky rocket (which is expensive naturally). Now maybe some of you come from colder climates where you rarely use A/C so this won't apply to you, but I'm from a place where the average temp is 87-97 degrees everyday with LOTS of humidity; so am used to running my A/C (just not used to paying a $400.00/month electric bill for doing so).
Anyway, if a CFL bulb is only using 21.67% of the electricity of a regular incandescent bulb and I have 3 wall lights in my bedroom alone then not only do they use less electricity but they also produce less heat which means less cooling work for the A/C, and if the CFL bulbs cost the same (in this case they cost less) as the regular ones-> I SAVE MONEY IN THREE WAYS. Even if the savings is only a few dollars, medical school last term cost me $35,000.00+ (that was only for 1 term, there are 12+ terms in the 4 years of medical school), so right now I have NO SHAME in wanting to save a few dollars here and there anyway I can- because it all adds up. Quality wise, I wake up at 5.30-6am to start class at 7.30am and I'm in class/lab under normal florescent lighting until about 5pm (with 1 hour break and a few 10 minute breaks here and there), then I either go home or go to the library- in either location I'm going to be studying/reading a textbook until I go to sleep at 1-1.30am. Your ability to focus your eyes declines as you get older (duh), this decline is sped up by straining your eyes too much (duh again), incandescent bulbs by nature have a higher risk of being too intense-> more eye strain -> your eyesight getting worse faster (not to mention other things like headaches, etc). So by using CFL I'm helping to SAVE MY EYES from declining faster than they would otherwise. The difference in the amount of light produced from an incandescent bulb vs a CFL bulb is hardly noticeable and therefore it doesn't affect my decision to buy a CFL bulb of the same price (or cheaper) over a traditional incandescent bulb.
BONUS... if the research data really support the claim that "one CFL bulb over its lifetime will prevent 1 ton of carbon dioxide [CO2] from being released into the air" (which is thought to contribute strongly to global warming) I am helping to SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT. The population of US is almost 310 million people, if these CFL bulbs let's say only last 1 full year and every person only used 1 CFL light bulb as their only light source for the entire year- that means that we are preventing 310 million tons of CO2 from being released. Of course no one only uses a single light as their only source, so realistically let's assume you've got 6 to 9 light bulbs in the house at any given time, then we could save 2 to 3 BILLION TONS of CO2 from being released into the air. Now the world population is almost 7 billion people, imagine what we could all do.
Ok that was a long enough diatribe about why I think CFL is better than incandescent and why this was a great product to purchase, hope I helped your decisions one way or another.
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