[geeks] Quiet CFLs

[Robert Toegel]

Unless your kids have a habit of ingesting CFLs, you have little to worry
about (even then, very iffy).  You could try LED lamps but I've even seen
"chicken littles" scream about them because "they contain arsenic".  Normal
CFLs don't play nice with dimmers, need to get ones designed for dimmers.
Even then, you might get no light for about the first third of the turn of
the control.  Same with LED lamps.

Bob

On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Nadine Miller <velociraptor at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sep 29, 2012, at 9:45 PM, Phil Stracchino <alaric at metrocast.net> wrote:
>
> > On 09/29/12 15:57, Jonathan Patschke wrote:
> >> Can anyone recommend a brand or model of Edison-base CFL that doesn't
> >> buzz?
> >>
> >> I have a few rooms in my house that would be good candidates for CFLs,
> but
> >> every one I've tried buzzes audibly at some harmonic of 60Hz.  It's not
> >> really _loud_, but it's definitely distracting, especially over a piano.
> >
> > At this point I'd go with LEDs anyway.  I don't intend to buy any more
> CFLs.
>
> Any pointers to good options (or even good info sources)?  I found a
> surprisingly good single LED desk lamp at Fry's and bought it on the spur
> of
> the moment, but haven't investigated anything for the purposes of general
> lighting.
>
> Thanks--
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