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zeemike

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8. I started using them about the same time

Reply to liberalmike27 (Reply #6)

Mon Feb 24, 2014, 10:51 AM

Feb 2014

and still have the first one in service...if you calculate how many incandescent bulbs it would have taken in that time it would more than pay for the CFL bulbs.

I first started using them in a drop light that I used every day in my work... because the incandescent bulbs do not like to be shaken and burn out all the time...and a CFL would last until I broke it.

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