{"id":503,"date":"2007-03-26T21:19:52","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T01:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mini.local\/blog\/index.php?entry=entry070326-211952"},"modified":"2007-03-26T21:19:52","modified_gmt":"2007-03-27T01:19:52","slug":"reasonably-priced-dimmable-compact-fluorescent-bulbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/?p=503","title":{"rendered":"Reasonably priced dimmable compact fluorescent bulbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000NQ1RR6?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=deflix\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biosrhythm.com\/wp-content\/images\/dimmable-compact-fluorescents.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"img_float_left\" \/><\/a>I found a reasonably priced compact fluorescent bulb that is also dimmable with standard incandescent dimmers.  Most are not compatible with dimmers and thus ones that do are expensive.<\/p>\n<p>I only ordered four to start with for the studio.  The bulbs are rated at 23 watts, each replacing a 85 watt flood.  The new bulbs save 248 watts of energy and put off <b>more<\/b> light (equivalent to 400 total watts of light).  The four pack of bulbs from the Amazon vendor ended up costing $5.87\/ea including shipping.  Buying more brings the cost down.<\/p>\n<p>An unfortunate side effect of these is that the X10 dimmer doesn&#039;t seem to function with these in place.  The X10 signal <b>is<\/b> being sent but must be getting absorbed into the ballast in the bulb because I couldn&#039;t make them dim.  I&#039;ll be replacing the X10 dimmer with a standard dimmer.  I&#039;m worried they&#039;ll buzz when dimmed so I&#039;ll be holding the final verdict until I can test.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000NQ1RR6?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=deflix\" >Link.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found a reasonably priced compact fluorescent bulb that is also dimmable with standard incandescent dimmers. Most are not compatible with dimmers and thus ones that do are expensive. I only ordered four to start with for the studio. The bulbs are rated at 23 watts, each replacing a 85 watt flood. The new bulbs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}