Quote Originally Posted by herbster
Was checking a few out today, saw a huge one here 240W for about US14.00. Think it uses about 45W of power which supposed to be 240W of light.
I'm guessing this is a good deal.http://boards.cannabis.com/images/smilies/smokin.gif
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Actually what the OP was referring to is a CFL that has a true watt rating of 150. What your reading is a 45 watt CFL that has the Incandescent equivalent of 240 watts. I'm going to guess that 150 has an equivalent of 600 Incandescent watts. That make sense? CFLs put off a lot more light per watt than your run of the mill Incandescent bulbs.

And I 2nd/3rd the purchasing of smaller bulbs. In addition to the listed reasons, you'll also not be ready to strangle someone if something were to happen to the lone 150 watt bulb that you ordered. You break, lose or burn out one of the smaller bulbs and you can just run to the nearest hardware shop and pick another one up. Out 10 bucks (5 quid?). Same thing happens to that 150 and your out, what, 30 quid?