In shops of home appliances the choice of lamps became huge. The great popularity is gained by lamps of energy saving segment. Whether it is valid they economical, the price of them quite high? It is enough to understand not to be mistaken upon purchase of lamp.
Instruction
1. The range of energy saving lamps big therefore we should be guided by many parameters of modern lamps. Choice of socle of the boss. Lamps can be two types - E14 and E27. Traditional glow lamps were divided into socle like ""candle"" and ""pear"". And so, ""candle"" is E14, that is narrow socle, and E27 - the standard socle suitable to the majority of chandeliers.
2. Further we should choose the power of lamps which we are going to buy. Lamps with power from 2 W to 85 W are now made. And the lamp should be chosen, having remembered the multiplication table that is if we need lamp with power of light of 100 W, we divide this number into 5 and we receive 20 W. The simple principle, we look at the power of energy saving lamp and we multiply by 5 - it will be actual power.
3. It is also necessary to consider color of light of lamp and its size. Lamps can be cool, day and soft (yellow) color. If you have got used to light of ""Ilyich's bulb"", then it is better to take yellow color. Though many leave the choice on cool and day color of luminescence of lamps now, explaining it with the high level of illumination of the room with these lamps. Selecting lamp, pay attention to its size. Some forms of lamps do not allow to find room completely in plafonds of lamps, that is they stick out a little outside. If it does not frighten you, then can safely take lamp of any form, preference is given lower in the price to U-shaped lamps.
4. The following item of the choice of energy saving lamp is the price. In comparison with lamps of old sample, energy saving lamps exceed the price practically by 10 times. But practice shows that the term of use of these lamps is many times higher, and fee cost for the electric power, by calculations for year of operation, 3 times less, than with glow lamps. As a result it turns out that energy saving lamps are much more economic than the predecessors.