Incandescent supply running out - Halogens OK

[John Sievert]

I actually had problems with some noisy halogens and went back and replaced all my halogens with incandescent about 5 years ago.  I have a couple of X10 testers that shows some level of noise on the line.  When I ditched two halogens, all the noise went away.  Hopefully they are better now.

That said, I've been replacing incandescents with Phillips and Cree LEDs and have had minor dimming issues, but nothing that I couldn't work through.  I've been pretty aggressive about that since I'm preparing my house to be operated by a generator in the even of a power outage, and LED lights really help reduce the power requirements.

J.
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On Oct 3, 2013, at 4:45 PM, ppederse <philip.pedersen at speakeasy.org>
 wrote:

> Halogens from Phillips have become more efficient in the last year or so. I have track lights that take 60w PAR20 short neck halogen lamps. Now, the redesigned lamps available are 53w with the lumen output of the old 75w lamps. This makes them efficient enough to pass the ban on low efficiency incandescents. 
> 
> For me, using the halogens is a better decision than using LEDs  because of the dimming issues as well as the cost.
> 
> Phil
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Oct 3, 2013, at 9:13 AM, Brian Williams <brwill at me.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Although, strictly speaking, halogen bulbs are incandescent, I believe that halogen bulbs will remain on the market, and they work well with X-10 dimmers (in-line, wall-mounted, and lamp modules).
>> 
>> Brian
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