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Philips PAR-38 dimmable CFL Found this at Home Depot in summer 2007, this has a dimmable ballast and a tri-tube arrangement rather than the typical spiral. It is true programmed-start and dims to around 50% on a cheap triac dimmer. It is an amalgam lamp and has Alto technology so it always starts pinkish-red but the run-up is pretty fast unless you start it in a dimmed setting. As it is a wet-location-rated lamp, I'm using it in the bathroom exhaust fan where I had a heat lamp before, to save energy as the heat lamp wasn't very effective. Keywords: Lamps

Philips PAR-38 dimmable CFL

Found this at Home Depot in summer 2007, this has a dimmable ballast and a tri-tube arrangement rather than the typical spiral. It is true programmed-start and dims to around 50% on a cheap triac dimmer. It is an amalgam lamp and has Alto technology so it always starts pinkish-red but the run-up is pretty fast unless you start it in a dimmed setting. As it is a wet-location-rated lamp, I'm using it in the bathroom exhaust fan where I had a heat lamp before, to save energy as the heat lamp wasn't very effective.

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Filename:Philips_PAR38_Dimmable_CFL+.JPG
Album name:vaporeyes / Lamp Collection
Keywords:Lamps
Company and Date Manufactured:Philips
Model Number:EL/A PAR38 Marathon
Wattage:20
Lamp Type:Self-ballasted compact fluorescent
Filesize:100 KiB
Date added:Feb 02, 2013
Dimensions:700 x 587 pixels
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A_lights   [Feb 02, 2013 at 07:02 PM]
Nice lamp! I think i have seen it on LG before, very good lamp I bet, especially if the exhaust fan still runs then the ballast will stay nice and cool!
GEsoftwhite100watts   [Feb 02, 2013 at 11:03 PM]
Is your bathroom heat light on a dimmer or is this just on a regular light switch? Cool lamp!
For the bathroom it would be cool if it was dimmable AND 6500K!
vaporeyes   [Feb 05, 2013 at 02:57 AM]
Yes, it's on a dimmer. There are daylight versions but I already have 5000K fluorescents as the main room light, and I try to have at least two colour temperature options per room to suit my daily mood. Cool
GEsoftwhite100watts   [Feb 06, 2013 at 02:47 AM]
I see...in this room it's cool white and warm white florescent...and three out of five cool white F40T12s are pre-EPACT halophosphate cool white too! Two of which are Norelco lamps! Then there's a warm white GE MainLighter and a Philips F20T12/WW and a few other florescents.

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