Compact Fluorescent bulbs must be designed specifically to work on a dimming circuit. Traditional incandescent bulbs dim by reducing the amount of power sent to the bulb. Less power means less heat and less light. Reducing power to a Compact Fluorescent bulb can keep its filament from getting hot enought to work properly, and the bulb simply goes out.

Compact Fluorescent use a ballast (the bulb's engine located inside the ceramic betwween the socket and the bulb) which starts the light and keeps it lit. Early Compact Fluorescent bulbs had magnetic ballasts that did not easily lend themselves to dimming. Electronic ballasts have reduced this problem but some work better than others. Some bulbs work with some dimmers but not others. Ballasts not designed to work on a dimming circuit and get hot enough to be considered a fire hazard.

Compact Fluorescent also have a narrower dimming range. A traditional incandescent bulb will dim smoothly from 100% to 0%. Generally Compact Fluorescent bulbs can dim between 20% and 90% of full light.

Compact Fluorescent produce about 4 times more light output per watt than incandescent bulbs. Compact Fluorescent also produce significantly more light (measured as lumens) per watt than alternative technologies such as LED and Cold Cathode lights.

Our Bulbs can be used on any Dimmer made after 1995 and dim smoothly down to 10% .

Our dimmable Compact Fluorescents have a patented End-of-Life Protection Circuitry to protect the lamps from overheating at the end of life. Compact Fluorescent's without End-of-Life circuits can potentially overheat to a point where the plastics containing the ballast begin to melt causing fire hazards.

No Buzzing. Our Compact Fluorescents components are manufactured with a special coating that prevents the annoying buzzing you hear with some lesser quality Compact Fluorescents.

Our Compact Fluorescents use Amalgam rather than Liquid Mercury. Our Compact Fluorescent's use amalgam for two very important reasons:

1) This allows all of our Compact Fluorescent's to be used in totally enclosed fixtures.

2) The use of amalgam eliminates the environmental concern regarding disposal of Compact Fluorescent's. The mercury used in the lamps is entirely contained inside the almalgam alloy and does not escape when the lamp is destroyed or disposed of. This makes the lamp safer to handle than conventional Compact Fluorescents.

www.dimmablecfls.com is wholly owned and operated by David Tyson Lighting, Inc., located in Jacksonville, Florida. They have been in business since 1992 supplying business around the United States and Globally with long lasting lighting products at the lowest possible prices.