why touch lamp dont take fluoroscent energy savings bulb?
i just got back from store learning that touch table lamp wont accept energy savings bulb,only incandescent one.why so?
what is dimmer switch?
sorry i came from backward third world country and am not familiar with this stuff,would certainly like to learn more.unfortunately i m not into this stuff.
i meant touch lamp
i heard in few years government will ban incandescent bulbs.what will be solution for dimmers then if fluorescent isn't the option?
You need to find a touch lamp that takes a three way bulb instead of one with a dimmer switch. You can find florescent bulbs that are for them. A three way lamp gives you a choice of three light levels.
A dimmer switch basically starts and stops the flow of electricity going into a lamp. This happens very rapidly (120 times a second) so an incandescent bulb works fine; you just turn the knob till you get the amount of light you want.
But a florescent bulb needs a (more or less) constant flow of current through it to keep it lit. If you put a dimmer switch on most of them, they will try to cycle off and on really really fast.
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Hm, did you mean touch lamp (turns off and on when you touch it) or torch lamp (tall slender lamp that kind of looks like a torch).
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does your lamp have a dimmer switch? the compact fluorescent bulbs don't work in a dimmer switch.
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Fluorescent bulbs require full voltage. A dimmer reduces the voltage. There are some jobs only an incandescent bulb can do.
Unless a bulb is left on for a significant period of time fluorescent bulbs are a waste.
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The touch-lamp depends on a low-impedance path through the bulb even when the lamp is off. The fluorescent unit doesn't provide this, so the touch circuit doesn't work correctly.
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Engineer is correct.
The touch lamps constantly put a tiny current through the filament of the bulb. They cannot put a current through the gas in a flourescent tube, therefore the switch won't work.
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That I don't know but the other works much better I ahve used them for over 10 yrs and I allmost never have to change them
Now your other question really stumped me you don't know wait a dimmer is ?
Well I just can't for the life of me tell you , They have been around for a long ,long time how old are you ?
Do you think it might have to do with That it dimmers the LIGHT ???
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You need to find a touch lamp that takes a three way bulb instead of one with a dimmer switch. You can find florescent bulbs that are for them. A three way lamp gives you a choice of three light levels.
A dimmer switch basically starts and stops the flow of electricity going into a lamp. This happens very rapidly (120 times a second) so an incandescent bulb works fine; you just turn the knob till you get the amount of light you want.
But a florescent bulb needs a (more or less) constant flow of current through it to keep it lit. If you put a dimmer switch on most of them, they will try to cycle off and on really really fast.
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Hm, did you mean touch lamp (turns off and on when you touch it) or torch lamp (tall slender lamp that kind of looks like a torch).
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_fluorescent_lamp