Compact fluorescent Lamps

Overview

Compact fluorescent lamps or CFL’S are a viable alternative to traditional incandescent light bulbs offering lower power consumption but the same luminescence as an incandescent light bulb and also being environmentally friendly. Wellbeinggreen offers a huge variety of CFLS both with and without dimmer capabilities. These bulbs consume around 15-20W of electricity while providing the light of a 60W traditional incandescent bulb. Hence CFLS have become very popular in homes as they greatly reduce electricity bills.

Product detail

Benefits:

Compact fluorescent lamps are much better than conventional incandescent light bulbs because of many reasons.

• They consume much less energy while delivering the same power as conventional incandescent light bulbs.
• They are also environment friendly, which means they don’t release harmful greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
• They have a longer lifespan, usually around 5 years.

Savings:

The savings achieved by using CFL bulbs is noteworthy. For example if a person spent $90 to change 30 incandescent bulbs to CFLS, he would save around $440 to $1500 on his electricity bills over the 5 year life of the bulb. Considering the rising cost of electricity. Switching to CFL's represents a considerable cost saving and saves the environment as well.

A comparison of traditional incandescent bulbs and compact fluorescent lamps