You can get conventional lightbulbs...
... in most electrical suppliers. Get "rough service lamps", which have more robust mechanical construction. In normal household use they last a lot longer, although they're a bit more expensive.

These crappy "low energy bulbs" don't put out as much light as the box says they're supposed to. If you want the equivalent of a 100W bulb, you need about 50W of "low energy" lighting, with the other 50W being dissipated in power factor correction chokes at the substation. They also don't survive vibration very well, which is why RSL bulbs are incandescent.
(gordonjcp, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 7:41, 1 reply)

thanks
I'll look into that :)
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 23:05, closed)