Compact fluorescent lamps and power quality
One aspect that is rarely touched in the discussion about compact fluorescent lamps and the ban of incandescent lamps: power quality. Have you ever seen the shape of the current absorbed by a compact fluorescent lamp? It just looks horrendous, far away from a nice sinus, thus loads of harmonics! If the use of such lamps is generalized, power quality may suffer, and addtional energy losses will occur. One should also take this aspect into account. Proposed ban of incandescent lamps never seem to mention it, and also neglect several ...
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