Halogen light bulbs

[Workingman]

Does anybody use them?

Since the evenings drew in two of my low-energy "last forever" bulbs have blown. The replacements are rubbish, supposedly equivalent to the old 100W they sort of glow for a split second before bursting into light and then take ages to be fully bright.

I have just looked at Halogen bulbs in the hardware store, but they are a bit expensive. Do they last? What colour light to they give off? Are they bright? I like a well lit room.

Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.

[meriad]

what type of halogen bulbs are they Frank?

i've got some very small ones in an Ikea uplighter (in fact one of the lights that's causing the router problems ) and got some spares bulbs from Ikea when I got the light. Just had a look on google and I think the ones I have are referred to as capsule bulbs?

[cromwell]

We had some a few years ago mounted flush in the kitchen ceiling. They didn't last long and it was fiddly job replacing them. They were bright though.

[Workingman]

Ria and Cromwell I am talking about "real" bulbs to replace the traditional bayonet fitting 240V ones of old. They are an alternative to the low-energy fluorescent types.

[Aggers]

We have Halogen bulbs in our living-room ceiling lights and they give a very bright white light.

One ceiling fitting has 5 - 40w bulbs and the other has 3. They claim to give off the illumination of 60w tungsten bulbs.

However, as I think that eight 40 watt bulbs is perhaps a trifle expensive, I have fitted up two 3ft fluorescent lights with
double tubes which serves well most of the time and only uses a fraction of the wattage of the main lights.

[saundra]

Why we're horrible low energy lights ever invented
I don't like them at all

[Workingman]

Nor me Saundra.

I could not live with fluorescent tubes Aggers.

I have googled and apparently the halogen bulbs do not last long and LED are way too expensive..... so it's back to low-energy.

[Kaz]

I loathe and detest these low energy bulbs Everywhere is so gloomy!!