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Originally Posted by Kostas
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...
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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.