Sylvania 29490 23-Watt CFL Mini Twist 6 pack, Soft White
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Customer Reviews
Masterful lightHad them for 6 months. My favorite classification of color, not white, not yellow. Looks like a real light. Not a single burnout..
Worse than habitual liaght bulbs
I recently went through the whole house and replaced all interior bulbs with these "Super Savers" BIG MISTAKE! I am going back and replacing the burned out ones more often than usual incandescent bulbs. The only thing it is maybe saving on is trips to the store to buy more bulbs as I had a few extra on helping hand. Sylvania can put these where the sun doesn't shine. I hate 'em!! Will never buy these again!
Hard up Packing broke the bulbs
I did not get a happen to use the bulbs because I left them in the blister pack and returned them. Whoever packed the box put it in a box with only one wrap of bubble wrap, and a lot of disorganized space in the box. One bulb was broken. I read other reviews that said the same thing. Lately, orders from Amazon have not been loaded very well. I am very disappointed.
I pick a whiter-bluer lignt
I gave it a "four" critique because it is as advertised. I find the light to be a little yellow, but, I am apparantly in the minority on this. I may buy a whiter-bluer light next values bright and early.
24 Hour Existence
About a week ago I adamant to finally give a CFL a try. After all, we will soon no longer be allowed to purchase incandescent bulbs. I went to the store and picked one out (why buy a 6-away if I don't know if I'll like it). It was a Sylvania 23-watt bulb that was claimed to last 10,000 hours and develop the same number of lumens as a standard 100-watt light bulb. I carefully thought this through--in my practice it would be burning 7 hours a day and would save about 1 penny per hour in electricity. This meant that the $5.00 (plus tax) bulb necessary last fewer than 600 hours to pay for itself. Free light bulbs! Why is legislation required to force people to liberate money? It made no sense to me. The only drawback I could see was that it contained mercury--about four milligrams (although in government documents this four milligrams magically becomes 0.6 mg when the bulb is landfilled).
When I arrived almshouse from the store that evening I marked the date on the base of the bulb (1/4/10) and smugly replaced the 75-watt bulb with the new, flush-saving one. When it finally burned out (in about four years) I would be able to congratulate myself on how much money I had saved. When I turned the bulb on it took a alternative to light up (not bad) and had a very harsh white light (not good--but I can live with it).
On the morning of January 8th, 2010, I arose at my stock hour (4 AM) and turned on the light. For some reason it only gave half of its usual illumination. It was a chilly morning (60 degrees in the bedroom); perhaps it simply needed to warm up. Minutes later, with a popping hubbub, it expired. The bulb had given 24 hours of service. Is this is why they haven't caught on?
