Customer Reviews

160 DIMMABLE Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs! LOT OF 160 Lamps 15w = 75w ULAmerica Model: SDS15-2P UL Listed 1100Lumens 8000 Hrs Life Energy Star

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Picked up the 15w and 23w version of these bulbs as well as the GE offering for dimmable can light replacement bulb.

These 15w bulb work ok, but they don't dim much further than about %50 bright - more problematice for me is they buzz when dimmed - at full power they're fine. For me this is a deal breaker since it's my office I have them in and I'm pretty sensitive to the buzzing - it's not horrible but it's noticable. To be fair the GE bulbs (considerably more expensive) also buzzed to a degree, although it was somewhat quieter. All only dimmed to around the half way point give or take - which isn't a big deal for me, but the buzzing was.

The light comes on pretty quick and the 15 watt lights are to my liking for brightness at full power - they're softer than I expected so I'm just going to leave them in at full power. I give it a 3 since as a dimmable bulb (which is presumably what folks are interested in) they fall a bit short but I'll continue using them at full power and they're fine.

I picked these up to use in my bedrooms and used them for about a month. The light was too bright, the bulbs tended to buzz especially when dimmed, and they didn't dim nearly enough. I replaced them with dimmable LED bulbs and moved these to a bathroom fixture that was not on a dimmer. I actually gave the rest of them away to someone else and will be going with LED lights throughout the house.

Waste of good money. In less than nine months three of these bulbs already died. We used them for a couple of hours in the evening during the week and a bit longer on weekends. They didn't come close to the thousands of hours advertised.

I used these bulbs in a dimmable chandelier. The chandelier used to burn 500W total, now it burns only 115W. It also appears to me to be a brighter light.

Replacing your standard incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescents, even if only in the lights you use the most often, will save you a bunch on your electric bill, not to mention using less energy means less power plants, less burning of coal, which helps the planet and reduce our dependence on foreign oil.