I have a lamp that is rated at 60 Watts for an incandescent bulb with a disclaimer to use a 13 Watt bulb instead when using a CFL replacement. Do I really need to respect that disclaimer? Would not a 23 Watt CFL be just as safe to use? It still draws less power than a 60 Watt incandescent, right?
Say I have a table lamp that states (via a slightly scary sticker) that it takes a 60W max bulb. Of course, that was based around incandescent wattages.
Is there any risk with putting in a CF bulb with a higher brightness but lower wattage? e.g. if I put a 23W CF (which is a 100W incandescent ...
A while back, I thought we finally answered the C wire questions once and for all. I took a bit of time and wrote up this answer, which was going to allow us to close all other C wire questions as a duplicate.
Since then I've answered quite a few C wire questions, some of which have stated "I've...
Say I have a table lamp that states (via a slightly scary sticker) that it takes a 60W max bulb. Of course, that was based around incandescent wattages.
Is there any risk with putting in a CF bulb with a higher brightness but lower wattage? e.g. if I put a 23W CF (which is a 100W incandescent ...
