Found these cool bulbs at a Dollar General store. As you can see on the etch, it is made in Hungary. The Hungarian 100w bulbs have horizontal filaments, very unusual for GE 100w A-19 bulbs.
100w lamps are extinct from the shelves at all of the Lowe's, Wal-Marts, and HDs here. Withen a few weeks after the ban they practically disappeared. Target may have some left... i'm sure the smaller stores here like Benny's Hardware etc may still have a limited stock.
@Jeremy do you see any 100w bulbs made in 2012 yet? They should say "2" somewhere on the etch. And Mike they disappeared that fast? Not surprising. Incandescent sales shot up last fall, taking 85% of sales!
Yep. I was pretty surprised by how fast they disappeared. I don't know many people that use CFLs or LED. 9/10 people i know around here still use incandescents. RI is trying to be the first state to have an off-shore windfarm, but I'm not sure if it'll happen any time soon...
Wow, sounds like Florida, not many people there use CFLs either. Here in CA CFLs are everywhere, almost everyone I know has at least 1-2. Incandescents are still commonly used though.
It seems public places like the CFLs but a lot of my friends say their parents hate them becuase they're "more expensive, look horrible in open fixtures, die prematurely in closed-in fixtures, and have mercury". I don't like CFLs myself, but they're better than candles i guess.
mike that sucks, at silverliner I heard CA like to shove CFL down there neck. here we do have lot of incandescent usage. so far we have old stocks still on the selfs, it make me think the stores might of stockpiled the bulbs. the reason why the bill pass because to manufactor bulbs because we felt it uncontitional to ban bulbs. Our state have a power grid of it own. and we pay the bills. How can the fed step in?
Most everybody I know complains about CFLs here too and I see lots of people still buying incandescents. Halogen energy savers are just starting to replace standard incandescents here. The reason there are so many CFLs is because utilities give them away for cheap.
I've noticed a lot of houses now have at least one or two CFL in them here nowadays. I think it's because of how the utility here pushed them during the last few years. In fact they gave me four off brand CFLs last year as part of some promotion when they were handing out CFLs door to door.
Incandescents fortunately are still widely available here since they're still allowed for the next two years.
The CFL promotions here have been really bad: They will actually come to your house, throw out ALL your incandescents and replace everything with off-brand spiral CFLs. Seriously! One of my friend's homes had one of these "audits" and since I work closely with the utility company in my job, I was at one point supposed to promote this program (well, a lot of people didn't like it, so it kinda died off).
That sucks, here my uitilty company give those TCP CFLs away every month when go in an pay the bills. they are pretty bad one of them eol smoking and kick out the inverter. I do belive the UL need to stricken up there standard for CFL EOL. That would force company to used better parts in them.
GE has found a workaround for still selling 100 watt lamps. They put a package of 100 watt lamps and add in 2 "Energy saver" Halogen lamps in the box so they can get around the ban, pretty clever of them don't you think. I guess they found a loophole around the ban and are using it to their advantage.
I got each a pack of 100w and 75w at the same DG. Made in Hungary. I alway see CFL at a cheap subsidised price, like 3 or 4 for a buck. City electric sevices actually send them in the mail to us.
@ vaporeyes; they can't legally come into your house and do that though, can they? They don't go door-to-door here. I guess in a way, the utility company doesn't really care becuase you're the one paying the bill, not them.
I read that in the pacific northwest where vaporeyes lives they can change out whole apartment buildings with just the decisions of the landlords and utilities, not the renters!
I was in a few stores in San antonio, the exesting 100 watt stock is drying up but my local stores still have a quite a few left.
but there still 130 volts 100 watts bulbs but got labeled as 88 watts At 120 volts by sylvania to skirt ban for one more year as it falls
under 75 watt class bulbs
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Incandescents fortunately are still widely available here since they're still allowed for the next two years.
but there still 130 volts 100 watts bulbs but got labeled as 88 watts At 120 volts by sylvania to skirt ban for one more year as it falls
under 75 watt class bulbs