Difficulty finding frosted/peal halogen GLS bulbs?

Ben84

Is anyone still buying these? I've been looking everywhere for these bulbs with a frosted finish and nowhere seems to sell them now. I know the old incandescent bulbs are being banned in stages, but I had thought the halogen ones would still be sold as they're more efficient (42w halogen replaces 60w incandescent). Any advice welcome as I have a lot of table lamps which fluorescent bulbs aren't suitable for.

fluffpot

Hi - the frosted ones have been phased out, so you won't get then anywhere now
You can still buy normal light bulbs - but they'll be clear not frosted

Ben84

fluffpot wrote: »

Hi - the frosted ones have been phased out, so you won't get then anywhere now
You can still buy normal light bulbs - but they'll be clear not frosted

Thanks for this. It does seem to be the situation. I bought some clear halogen GLS bulbs, but I prefer frosted and it looks like clear will be phased out soon enough too.

My trouble is that I have a lot of table lamps I want to keep. Art pottery stuff from the 70s and some carved teak ones, but they all have dimmer switches in the cables that I fitted some years ago. I could just re-wire them without the dimmers to use fluorescent bulbs, but I quite like being able to adjust the brightness and did spend a reasonable amount of money on having the dimmers fitted. I had mistakenly believed the halogen GLS were not being phased out too, so assumed I was fine to keep using these.

I'll keep looking for a solution or some type of new bulb that might work as a replacement and see what I find. Any advice from others who might have found a solution is welcome too? I'll post back here if anything turns up as I'm surely not the only person with dimmer switches who doesn't want to stop using them.

jon_ports

I'm no lighting expert but my father-in-law used to work for many years for a well-known electrical wholesaler. He has encouraged me on several occasions to replace the lamps in our dining room with dimmable CFL replacements so I am sure such things exist. I understand they are however considerably more expensive then there non-dimmable counterparts.

If all else fails a quick google search turned up some retailers still offering these.

maninthestreet

Is this what you are looking for:

http://www.qvsdirect.com/Dimmable-Halogen-GLS-240v-42W-BC-Bayonet-Cap-Lamp-Pearl-pr-23294.html

Ben84

jon_ports wrote: »

I'm no lighting expert but my father-in-law used to work for many years for a well-known electrical wholesaler. He has encouraged me on several occasions to replace the lamps in our dining room with dimmable CFL replacements so I am sure such things exist. I understand they are however considerably more expensive then there non-dimmable counterparts.

If all else fails a quick google search turned up some retailers still offering these.

Thanks for this, it's certainly something I could explore. I already use some energy savers around the house where there is a normal on/off switch and rate the good ones highly, but the dimmable ones I bought a couple of years ago didn't go well. They needed to warm up before I could dim them, I had issues with dimming them below a certain brightness and they burnt out very quickly too (less than a year). Very different experience to my regular energy savers, some of which are now over 20 years old and working well.

I'm considering trying one of the new LED bulbs as there are some that claim to replace a 60 watt frosted bulb and can be dimmed. Expensive though, £20-30 a bulb, but they claim to last for 30-50,000 hours, so if they work well they would be a good long term solution.

Ben84

maninthestreet wrote: »

Is this what you are looking for:

http://www.qvsdirect.com/Dimmable-Halogen-GLS-240v-42W-BC-Bayonet-Cap-Lamp-Pearl-pr-23294.html

Exactly the things, thank you!