How a CFL Is Made

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  • How a CFL Is Made

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  • @wesleyzielinski4849
    @wesleyzielinski4849 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    Technology Connections video made me curious about the manufacturing of these bulbs.

    • @debrucey
      @debrucey 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Same 🤣

    • @davidwaguespack6324
      @davidwaguespack6324 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yep.

    • @CT-vm4gf
      @CT-vm4gf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same

    • @Shankdaddy16
      @Shankdaddy16 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same

    • @Izumisensei2004
      @Izumisensei2004 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I remember this things being advertised as the most efficient lighting way
      But now....

  • @SteveWillinger
    @SteveWillinger 13 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I am proud to be the TCP distributor in Bristol, VA

  • @sirplantain
    @sirplantain 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I'll stick with HID's, nice and bright. Just need to make sure I remember to turn off the outside one otherwise I'll end up with a Boeing 747 parked in my front room.

  • @PranjitSaikiaGaming
    @PranjitSaikiaGaming 4 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    Watching 2019, now CFL is vintage tech

    • @lps164marshmallow4
      @lps164marshmallow4 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I know right 😊 lol

    • @MrDuncl
      @MrDuncl 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yet only Dubai has up to date efficient lighting in 2021 !

    • @johnskuttysabu7915
      @johnskuttysabu7915 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Led conquered the business.!!!!

    • @j_c2225
      @j_c2225 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      All my light bulbs are still CFLs I don’t understand

  • @xXTaseManXx
    @xXTaseManXx 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    take a shot every time she says TCP xD i'd die

  • @cengeb
    @cengeb 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I have had great luck with CFLs. And LED. The Straight PL types from Philips invention started the CFL revolution. Straight are slightly more efficient, bending the glass causes some of the phosphors to not perform to optimum, by a tiny amount, but it certainly shrunk the lamp to fit everywhere.

  • @hbvngfdec9p7izbdvc
    @hbvngfdec9p7izbdvc 12 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Take a shot every time they say "Exclusive"

  • @mattypants
    @mattypants 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love watching these old videos on way outdated technology. It's still a neat process.

  • @Static1701
    @Static1701 14 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sidieblooming - A fluorescent light has to have mercury to work. It is the mercury in vapor form that strikes the phosphor coating of the lamp that makes it glow and give off light. The guy that invented the CFL at GE, tired a number of different ways to make them work with other elements and some of them did give off light, but they never reached the same level of lumen per watt that the standard mercury filled CFL makes.

  • @senorkaboom
    @senorkaboom 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    We had a major change in our electric company pricing structure years ago. My one bedroom apartment electric bill went from around $22 dollars a month to nearly $50 bucks, with no change in my consumption. As I grappled with trying to make sense of it all, I made the decision to switch out all the 40 to 100 watt light bulbs I used with lower wattage CFL equivalents. Yep, it was a few bucks, but the lower bill, with the new pricing, I received from that point on was worth it. These bulbs do have an impact on your usage.

  • @Bandicoot803
    @Bandicoot803 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There are testing laboratories which carry out a huge variety of test conditions for all kinds of light sources we see everyday to find out how they behave. They use a halogen sniffer, the same one garages use to detect halogen leaks from a car engine, and that thing started screaming when it was held above the CFL lamp. I've seen it on a serious TV documentary about the light bulb cartel founded in 1925-1947-Today. That's why light bulbs don't live more than 2000 pre-designed hours!

  • @MrPhil0267
    @MrPhil0267 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I am not sure if CFL's are going out of style. I still have incandescent bulbs in my house. But when they burn out I am replacing them with CFL's. They seem to last forever. But when they do burn out I dispose of them by going to Home Depot. It's the right thing to do.

  • @UQRXD
    @UQRXD ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They are ting of the past, but this video will be here forever.

  • @julianurbaszewski4055
    @julianurbaszewski4055 ปีที่แล้ว

    Also nice to see that those are US market ones because I can tell by the base and the packaging. Also I think it said 120v too.

  • @bestamerica
    @bestamerica 10 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    '
    my home use alot of white daylight CFL twister bulbs,,,
    few soft white twister bulbs,,,
    big save electric bill down

  • @TheLordstrider
    @TheLordstrider 11 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Ow My God ... i heard TCP in this movie like 1000000 Times :S

  • @TheDodgeboi
    @TheDodgeboi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    THOSE 15,000 manufacturing jobs should be in America.

  • @arifkhan-qg2np
    @arifkhan-qg2np 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    nice oneak valoi laglo vidio guli. arow new new vidio dhaktay chai sob somoy...

  • @PriyaSingh-lu6yp
    @PriyaSingh-lu6yp 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video.......loved the way of bestowing things........:)

  • @Bandicoot803
    @Bandicoot803 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    In a documentary someone held a halogen detector from a car workshop to detect oil fume leaks aobout 20cm over a CFL, and this thing was chanting in a high tone.
    A colleague of the company I work for told me that he noticed a pretty bad smell after replacing light bulbs by CFL's.

  • @johnb9394
    @johnb9394 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is like watching a video on how typewriters are made

  • @Kirby7601
    @Kirby7601 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    2019 and yet i still have a box of new cfl bulbs from them never used. I use led now all over the house

    • @carbonblack1002
      @carbonblack1002 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I HATE LED bulbs.

    • @roadmaster720
      @roadmaster720 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@carbonblack1002 10-4 from me on the led bulbs. the CFL bulb is better and more light from same.

    • @GabrielViana-mg3vh
      @GabrielViana-mg3vh 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@carbonblack1002 I know LED is better but still I like the shape of it, they are so hard to find in Europe

  • @samuelbailey1888
    @samuelbailey1888 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    The frequency they put out alsomcauses eye strain!

  • @permofit
    @permofit 12 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    7:30 RoHS compliant yet at 6:30 it uses mercury the second thing on the list ?

  • @alistairstuart2009
    @alistairstuart2009 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    They also can produce dirty electricity that can cause headaches, migraines, skin problems, eye strain, insomnia and a tired felling

  • @afiladoelmisterparacliente1657
    @afiladoelmisterparacliente1657 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Muy Bien Amigo......sique asi.Saludo Juan Jose Klöckl.Granada

  • @JohnProffer
    @JohnProffer 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    am i the only one who thinks this is more of a very long ad for a specific company, and not a how-its-made video?

  • @naveenchaudhary4072
    @naveenchaudhary4072 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    All. I. Can here is EXCLUSIVE here and there

  • @Bandicoot803
    @Bandicoot803 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Concerning the amount of mercury needed - yes!

  • @josephgutman8049
    @josephgutman8049 10 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    All I heard was exclusive... oh man, what happens if someone else has a machine that rotates their lights.

  • @zoogoo404
    @zoogoo404 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for the 9 minute advertisement.

  • @moonfiber
    @moonfiber 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    they are more efficient but they only give a narrow range of the spectrum. I like the simple incandescent light bulbs better because their light is more natural and warm with no flicker.

  • @RJARRRPCGP
    @RJARRRPCGP 10 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I hate to say this, for the ones that think all Phillips light bulbs are made in Europe are wrong! The incandescent plant lights are manufactured in China :(

  • @utah133
    @utah133 7 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    How quickly technologies become obsolete! I switched to all LED a couple of years ago.

    • @glennojordan
      @glennojordan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      rationalguy you’re not the only one there mate😉

  • @RDxx77
    @RDxx77 9 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    That Intro though :'D

  • @ALONEBABY78
    @ALONEBABY78 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Which chemical compound is used in cfl plastic cabinet ? It seems like a soil with some liquid solution but I dont know exactly what it is ,

  • @joewalter7523
    @joewalter7523 8 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Hated the harsh light from those things. Thankfully being replaced by LED bulbs - way more efficient, better light and very cool to the touch.:)

    • @spierskalla
      @spierskalla 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You say your LED bulbs are way more efficient than cfl's? Where do you get them. Manufacturers are still making LED lights which are maybe 20-50% better because consumers will buy them. Cree can manufacture LEDs that are 4x better but consumers aren't demanding them.

    • @HumanBeing...
      @HumanBeing... 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      but low HZ

    • @exoticcar5482
      @exoticcar5482 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Don't touch their heatsinks though

  • @homeguestunton
    @homeguestunton ปีที่แล้ว

    This is basically a TCP commercial. TCP CFLs are now discontinued with their LED bulbs.

  • @AltarenGalil
    @AltarenGalil 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Never heard the word exclusive so many times in a single video

  • @JKx150
    @JKx150 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I bought e149698 bulbs at home depot about 7 years ago, they are all automatically controlled to come on every day at sunset, and turn off 2.5 hours later. In addition to this, there are motion sensors that have the lights come on for 4 min intervals, and this occurs about 3 times every night. With the short cycling included, I would estimate any one bulb has about 7500 hours on it. I have never had to replace any of these type.

    • @elcano9l52
      @elcano9l52 ปีที่แล้ว

      At 17 years now, any of them still up?

  • @fabiodejesuscamargoeletricista
    @fabiodejesuscamargoeletricista 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very good this vídeo conglatulation!

  • @Static1701
    @Static1701 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    He did get a patent, GE did not make it because of the cost for new tooling. Once it leaked out, they had to make them since everyone else was.

  • @WavyGravyTrain1
    @WavyGravyTrain1 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    The circuit board does not contain any hazordous materials because it's contained in the bulb.Wear a dust mask if you break one and wash your hands after.

  • @Specz_the_pro
    @Specz_the_pro 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If "minimal environmental footprint" mattered you would be producing these bulbs in the US. Js

  • @alnajaatstones2687
    @alnajaatstones2687 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing🤔

  • @amolsz123
    @amolsz123 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    nice

  • @OlegKostoglatov
    @OlegKostoglatov 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    I know that lead free solder is banned in medical electronics and in aerospace electronics, they have to use good old 60:40 or something similar in those. One other problem it often has is the formation of tin whiskers apparently, the lead puts a stop to it. It's no big seal using lead free solder on a copper water line, even though the old lead stuff never really harmed anyone there either, but the last thing you want is a piece of navigation gear shorting out from tin whiskers at 40,000 feet.

  • @AKAtheA
    @AKAtheA 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    actually, LED do contain what would be considered hazardous materials, but unlike CCFLs, it's not in gaseous form...

  • @peterbuckley6294
    @peterbuckley6294 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Really cool video

  • @imelvis4882
    @imelvis4882 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    SLAVE LABOR
    Please TCP prove no Chinese people who are incarcerated in China have no hands on, no involvement in the production of ANY (you hear me) ANY, not one breath spent by anyone in prison working on any part of your beautiful product. Bravo. Lead on your own.
    Build Peace
    live better everyday

  • @shekharprasad2226
    @shekharprasad2226 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Bahit acha video hi I like it

  • @jplonmar
    @jplonmar 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    You won't believe how Subjective the members of the TH-cam are.
    I am an engineer and I can say this.
    CFLs are good idea at some places but not at the other. It’s excellent idea mainly at places where it’s hot and Air Conditioners are used all the time. In this case, if the package says each bulb will save you $50 in electricity. It will actually save you more than $150 in electricity due to the reduced cooling cost from your AC.

  • @RageMinecraft1
    @RageMinecraft1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    ''This is an exclusive ....... Of TCP'' It makes me laught

    • @johnfranklin4038
      @johnfranklin4038 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      video is 7 years old so yeah, back then it probably was exclusive

    • @venkateshveny6274
      @venkateshveny6274 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      sex videos

  • @WinsantStore
    @WinsantStore 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Smart process......

  • @sweetkellymay
    @sweetkellymay 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes I agree 100% .What is a better alternative,.. # 1,2 and 3 apply to LED's as well...

  • @-yeme-
    @-yeme- 8 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    all that investment and now everyone uses LEDs...

    • @tm80notgoodwithnames58
      @tm80notgoodwithnames58 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +0yeme0 all investement in leds and few years everyone is using something other

    • @vmelkon
      @vmelkon 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Quantum dots

    • @xeroinfinity
      @xeroinfinity 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      dummies who pay $35USD for 6 light bulbs that really suck. and much more mercury, and other poisons, in seafood than in CFL lights. LEDs are a joke for real lighting!

    • @jonathantan2469
      @jonathantan2469 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's just like the LaserDisc. Came in for a few years... then replaced by DVDs.

    • @charliedavisthearchitect3874
      @charliedavisthearchitect3874 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      PlatinumEagleStudio's thats a lie troller

  • @MrTriac
    @MrTriac 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    AMEN TO THAT!!!

  • @MrTriac
    @MrTriac 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    That makes two of us.

  • @melissa.debrouwersprucedal1542
    @melissa.debrouwersprucedal1542 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Would love a more

  • @quad1000
    @quad1000 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    have fun cleaning up if you break one

  • @OlegKostoglatov
    @OlegKostoglatov 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Like I said, once I heard them mention in the video that they use RoHS compliant lead free solder the ballast circuit board I knew that they were crap, its the same reason a lot of TVs and other electronics won't last more then five years before failing. One CFL I have had some luck with are the Phillips branded ones for some reason, maybe they make their own? The UL number on those is E 130360 Another is a Syvania brand one with a UL number of E 137657.

  • @fijibornindyFBI
    @fijibornindyFBI 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    the incandescent light bulb works on the basis that the filament is bombarded by electrons which vibrate it and thus cause it to emit light. However it releases more heat then light just because heat itself is vibration of the atoms. no matter wat alloy u use more heat will be released

  • @fabiodejesuscamargoeletricista
    @fabiodejesuscamargoeletricista 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fantastic production conglatulation!

  • @filenotfound__3871
    @filenotfound__3871 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    *How a CFL WAS Made (R.I.P)
    They were always misunderstood

  • @konatadesuka
    @konatadesuka 12 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    HOW do they remove the bent glass from the screw shaped machine? They nicely omitted that step in the whole video.

    • @richardboudville5188
      @richardboudville5188 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Easy! Just Unscrew it.

    • @michaelturner4457
      @michaelturner4457 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Easy, the screw shaped glass is unscrewed from the screw shaped form.

  • @kiningroseburg9288
    @kiningroseburg9288 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This seems more like an ad for TCP than a "how it's made"

  • @Circlotron
    @Circlotron 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    The CFLs that light up instantly soon go black at the ends and fail after a short life. The material that coats the cathodes (filaments) gets ripped away and coats the inside of the tube black. The ones that start dull and take 1-2 seconds to come up to full brightness last WAY longer. Their filaments get to full heat before much voltage is applied to the ends of the tube. We set up a 10 watt conventional tube on an electronic ballast using this method and got 300,000 starts before we gave up.

  • @onionofdeath
    @onionofdeath 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes. Several videos on CFL growing. Don't ask why I know lol.

  • @Bandicoot803
    @Bandicoot803 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    All done!

  • @marzookwjjam5995
    @marzookwjjam5995 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    If your product saved our money thanks & HAPPY KRISSMAS

  • @mr.dahliaking.202
    @mr.dahliaking.202 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    3:28 one worker does a truly satisfying job, and the other just ruins the experience..

  • @henryl3617
    @henryl3617 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ah, we still have one or two of these collecting dust in a junk drawer.

  • @ZahidTrainsVlogs
    @ZahidTrainsVlogs 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow good making energy saver

  • @pcross84
    @pcross84 9 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Yeah, mercury is really, really good for the environment.

    • @TheStellaruniversexm
      @TheStellaruniversexm 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mercury kills animals and humans.

    • @pcross84
      @pcross84 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I was being facetious.

    • @xskugga
      @xskugga 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It is in a solid state which makes it much more difficult to harm anything as it can be picked up and disposed of, and it's 1.5mg. Someone that weighs 70kg (about 154 lbs) would need 20-60mg for it to be lethal, that is the absolute minimum...but it can be as high as 57mg or more/kg of body weight which is 4g. This would be lethal to small animals at most.

    • @QiuyuanChenRyan916
      @QiuyuanChenRyan916 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      ***** Well, only if you break one of them.

    • @theKashConnoisseur
      @theKashConnoisseur 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      pcross84 It's actually not terrible unless it's been methylated. Granted, it's not GOOD for the environment, but there are many elements and compounds that are significantly more persistent and much more toxic.

  • @madamerotten
    @madamerotten 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    A vast majority of consumables are made in China these days because their labor rates are cheapest and they have an inexhaustible labor force willing to work for about $5000 a year. Consumers always seem to consider price above all other criteria. Some comparable electronic components made in the EU or the US cost 3 to 5 times as much as the Chinese counterparts.

  • @ricardoelectronicsrepair
    @ricardoelectronicsrepair 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    watch this in ten years later after the upload i still have flourescent lamp and cfl works. but majority is replace by led because is more efficient

  • @lucky3691000
    @lucky3691000 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    how i can start industry.and how much finance required,

  • @loudpipesavelives69
    @loudpipesavelives69 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    thought it was gonna be about choppers

  • @3dmenyea578
    @3dmenyea578 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    superb

  • @maculster
    @maculster 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am confident that I have never had a CFL last for 10,000 hours! Additionally, what happens ten years from now when we have dumps full of these CFLs and their mercury?

  • @Postghost
    @Postghost 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    O yea, cause that confirms it.

  • @Ignisan_66
    @Ignisan_66 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    And then gigachad sigma LEDs kick the door open and wipe the floor with crappy beta CFLs.

  • @kiranshigwan7617
    @kiranshigwan7617 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice

  • @LMF5000
    @LMF5000 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I replied to the other guy's comment already (he was wrong), but I seriously doubt broken incandescent bulbs emit tungsten - it's a metal with a famously high melting point (3,422 degrees Celsius) and solid at room temperature (unlike mercury). To get gaseous tungsten you'd have to heat it to the boiling point, which is 5,555 deg. C (normal lightbulb operating temperature is usually about 3000 deg. C)

  • @debihartanto9757
    @debihartanto9757 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    mantaf

  • @Bandicoot803
    @Bandicoot803 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Reckless way to go!

  • @sheeesh13
    @sheeesh13 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    LED light bulb : I have come now
    CFL : oh no
    LED : bye bye never see you again now you are extinct

  • @manuianum
    @manuianum 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think the glass is just held while the screw rod is allowed to unscrew just like a screw (excuse the overuse of the word screw for nothing else came to my mind).

  • @Static1701
    @Static1701 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    The mercury in a CFL is not all that harmful unless it mixes with water and becomes Methyl mercury. If CFL's are disposed of properly, the danger can be managed.

  • @konkor3607
    @konkor3607 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    WOW

  • @douro20
    @douro20 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    @stickedU
    You're joking, right? It takes more energy to produce a CFL than it does to make one incandescent light bulb. And there are far less hazardous materials used.

  • @geoffro127
    @geoffro127 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I just wanted to know how they were made. Not to know how good 'TCP' is.

  • @erdvilla
    @erdvilla 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    YAY! Let us promote our product as green and innovative, but let us outsource manufacturing to China; a heavily coal-based economy with slave-like factories.

    • @stmualimah89
      @stmualimah89 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You're so right about slave-like factories. Chinese factories give crap wages to its employees especially the labor work, but demand its employees to always work so hard and overtime without being paid extra and call it loyalty.

  • @cmb271
    @cmb271 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    @lumeriam OK no Oil and Natural gas then how will we get the electricity to feed the LEDs

  • @Andyman401
    @Andyman401 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hmm, amalgam is a small pill which is a solid state form of mercury and other elements. Did not know it came exclusivly in a pill.

  • @grandechristian3030
    @grandechristian3030 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good

  • @peteacher52
    @peteacher52 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is just a very long advertisement for one particular company - the Jack Horner syndrome; Oh what good boys are we.

  • @lizmitchel8855
    @lizmitchel8855 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    in Russia more incandescent bulbs shine

  • @brendonmoore3505
    @brendonmoore3505 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes but what does it all mean basil?

  • @QiuyuanChenRyan916
    @QiuyuanChenRyan916 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    3:06 that confirmed me it is made in China for sure, as where the sign is posted and how it is written.