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[TH231]

Since I installed my x10 system, I have had four CFL lights go out.(all in about a week) These lights are NOT using any x10 modules. Has anyone heard of this happening?

[JMac]

Sounds like defective CFL to me.  What is the brand?  (Assuming they were all the same.)

[Brian H]

I have not seen any messages about. CFLs failing in an X10 system when not on an X10 device.

Have you looked at the percautions on the CFLs boxes?
Like don't use them in any type of dimmer or timer circuit; if not dimmable.
Some don't want to be in totally enclosed fixtures.
Some don't like short cycles on and off like in a bathroom.
Some don't like to be in damp environments.

Maybe a bad run of CFLs if they all came from the same lot.
I have a manufacturing lot of MicroBrite CCFLs and over 50% have failed in less than two years. All with the same symptoms. As warming up. They go off then back on as the electronics goes through the warming process.

[Knightrider]

How old were the offending CFL's?  I'm getting about 6 or 7 years on mine.

[dave w]

Since I installed my x10 system, I have had four CFL lights go out.(all in about a week) These lights are NOT using any x10 modules. Has anyone heard of this happening?

There is no connection to X10, it is just crappy components in the bulbs solid state ballast. Yes, I put four new GE 23 watt CFLs in my garage a couple of years ago. Three of them winked out within a month of each other. They all operated off one switch so had same number of hours on them. I know I did not get the predicted 10,000 hours out of them. I have put CFLs throughout the house, and I saw no change in my electric bill and I could give a rats patute about my "carbon footprint".....I'm ready to go back to the Edisons.   

[Knightrider]

In my case, wattage reduction isn't as important as longevity.