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Re: Longest Lasting Lamp In Your House « Reply #15 on: May 12, 2023, 03:53:59 PM » Author: BGPATTERSON403
A pair of cge f40ww in my garage, been there 12y and still working. Bit of black on one end
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Re: Longest Lasting Lamp In Your House « Reply #16 on: May 23, 2023, 03:54:17 PM » Author: obsessedstreetlight24
Never thought I’d be saying this, but the three Feit 100W 4000K equivalent LEDs from Costco have been serving me well for about four years now without fail. They run from dusk to dawn on a timer.
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Re: Longest Lasting Lamp In Your House « Reply #17 on: May 24, 2023, 06:35:27 PM » Author: CooperOVZ
The longest lasting Lamp in my house is the basement light which is an Incandescent Lamp :inc:
Everything else in my house is CFL and LED. :(
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Re: Longest Lasting Lamp In Your House « Reply #18 on: May 24, 2023, 07:08:52 PM » Author: Lcubed3
Nothing wrong with CFLs!  :cfl1:
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Re: Longest Lasting Lamp In Your House « Reply #19 on: May 24, 2023, 07:41:24 PM » Author: CooperOVZ
True but LEDs :sick:
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Re: Longest Lasting Lamp In Your House « Reply #20 on: May 26, 2023, 09:48:12 PM » Author: desktoptrashcan
The longest lasting bulbs have to be the globe incandescent bulbs in my over-mirror bathroom vanity fixture. They’re original to the house from the year 2000. 23 years and still going strong!  :inc:
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HID, LPS, and preheat fluorescents forever!!!!!!


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Re: Longest Lasting Lamp In Your House « Reply #21 on: May 26, 2023, 10:16:24 PM » Author: WorldwideHIDCollectorUSA
My parents house has a garage with a pair of 2 lamp F40T12 rapid start fluorescent tube strip light fixtures that still have Feit F40CW tubes that are possibly original to the house built in 1993 that still run nicely after 30 plus years.
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Re: Longest Lasting Lamp In Your House « Reply #22 on: May 27, 2023, 12:06:49 PM » Author: Robotjulep
My longest lasting lamp in my house is Sylvania CF23EL/Micro/865. The specs are 23w, 1600lumen, 6500k. Obtained as a used lamp in 2016 from a garage sale, the  :cflhd: was self ballasted on its electronic ballast for 5 years at 6 hours per day on average in my ceiling fan, then the original ballast died. After that, I removed that ballast and bypassed it. The lamp was then powered by a 25w, 4 lamp t8 instant-start  :ballastfl: at which I ran from one tap of the wires in a table lamp for another 2 years at 7 hours per day. Then in 2023 January, I retired the lamp in still working condition. Probably 16,000 hours of this lamp was used but is actually getting a bit dim as it is near EOL because it seems significantly dimmer than a new 23w CFL. It is also giving off a burnt plastic smell when it is on for hours. I still have a large stash of assorted CFLs and continue to get more for free at the Lowes recycling.
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