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Old 08-29-2009, 07:39 PM   #35
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Second thougth - there is a real drawback with energy saving bulbs vs. incandescent ones: they cannot be dimmed to get lighting effects!.
Gotta abandon several dimmers I have or find a workaround.
I think that halogen lamps can be dimmed but there's no obvious way to mount them...
Actually they can, the one incandescent holdout I've had for all these years was on on a dimmer switch. In the last year or so "dimmable" CFLs have been available. The price is about twice a normal CFL of the same wattage but they work.
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