{"id":631,"date":"2004-02-24T12:01:36","date_gmt":"2004-02-24T20:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2004\/02\/24\/2-24-04\/"},"modified":"2007-03-06T03:33:39","modified_gmt":"2007-03-06T11:33:39","slug":"more-compact-fluorescents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2004\/02\/24\/more-compact-fluorescents\/","title":{"rendered":"More Compact Fluorescents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to Ikea over the weekend with PPG. Our goal: a couple more CF bulbs and an Ikea can opener. It was a real challenge for us to be IN and OUT as quick as possible since, traditionally, shopping at Ikea is more a lifestyle choice than a shopping decision. I&#8217;m happy to say that we succeeded!<\/p>\n<p>We were in and out of Ikea in 15 minutes :-).<\/p>\n<p>You know that area of Ikea where you have to wait for your big items to come out of the back warehouse? Do other people call it &#8220;purgatory&#8221; too? Both PPG and I called it that before we even met each other.<\/p>\n<p>I got some 15 watt CF bulbs that don&#8217;t have &#8220;looks more like an incandescent&#8221; shields on them. The big fixture in the front hall could use a little more brightness. So I swapped out the 11 watt bulbs for 15 watts. They&#8217;re great. Bright, white, natural, and way cheaper than incandescents.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve replacing light fixtures all over the house. Usually I replace a 100 watt incandescent with a 75 watt inc. and an 11 watt fl. on a splitter. It gives more light, it comes on instantly and uses less electricity. Happy day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to Ikea over the weekend with PPG. Our goal: a couple more CF bulbs and an Ikea can opener. It was a real challenge for us to be IN and OUT as quick as possible since, traditionally, shopping at Ikea is more a lifestyle choice than a shopping decision. I&#8217;m happy to say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}