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Fluorescent light bulbs have been manufactured for several years, but it wasn’t until 1980 when Philips became the first manufacturer to produce a compact fluorescent bulb in mass quantities. In 30 years the CFL light bulb has been enhanced by becoming smaller, producing more lumens per Watt, brighter and higher quality light, and have become a lot cheaper. |
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CFL light bulbs were designed as a replacement for the original incandescent and halogen light bulbs with the primary goals of increasing efficiency, longer bulb life, and lower replacement costs. In order to increase flexibility, CFLs come in a variety of wattages, temperature colors, base types, brands, and sizes. This flexibility paves the way for CFL light bulbs to be ideal replacements for a growing number of commercial, industrial, and residential light applications. Compact fluorescent light bulbs make a great replacement because of easy installation. Screw-base CFLs are easily installed by removing the old bulb and simply screwing in the new bulb. Compact fluorescent bulbs can be used in most applications with the exception of timers, photo sensors, non-vented locations, and motion sensors. |
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On average, 25% of the household’s energy bill is consumed by lighting. CFL lighting provides the consumer ideal energy savings. Compact fluorescent light bulbs use 75% less energy and last 8 to 10 times longer than any incandescent bulb. A CFL light bulb will save about $30 over the lifetime of the bulb and pay for itself in about 6 months. Along with energy savings comes huge money savings. In the case of incandescent bulbs, you would have to buy 8 to 10 bulbs throughout the life of 1 CFL. (ex. If one incandescent bulb costs $.50 and one CFL light bulb costs $3.50, you would save $1.50 by spending $3.50 on a CFL bulb versus spending $5.00 on 10 incandescent bulbs.) |
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Compact fluorescent lights come in all sorts of shapes including reflectors, spirals, a-shapes, decorative, and globes. These shapes are always changing to increase the flexibility, reliability, size, and to make replacing incandescent bulbs easy. In addition, improvements have allowed the lighting market to grow into new technology including dimmable CFL bulbs, the use of amalgam mercury, shatter proof CFLs, and more.
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