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ChadTower:

Mine are all the open spiral types - no enclosures other than the fixture itself.  Some of them are pretty cheap, too, bought at dollar stores.

polaris:
i dont like the coldness of the little buggers but im sure in time warmer ones will become available, you can get warm larger florrie tubes. i dont find they take that long to come to brightness either. if they are used in as room where the light is regularly switched on for short periods i believe a trad bulb would be more energy efficient anyway.

shardian:

--- Quote from: ahofle on December 20, 2007, 12:55:29 pm ---Do you have of the enclosed type CFLs like the globes and floodlights?  I wonder if there is something with those (lack of ventilation possibly as mentioned above) that makes them so much worse at starting up than the normal CFLs? 

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Next time you are in the light aisle, take a look inside the lens of a CFL flood light. It is a spiral inside of a reflector and lens. Doesn't that violate the "don't use in enclosed situations" right off the bat?

crashwg:
I concur with the slow warm up problems among other things mentioned in this thread as to why CFLs are NOT the future of lighting.  We put two CFL "equivalent to 100watt" bulbs in the lamp that lights the entire living room a few months ago.  The moment you turned on the light it looked like maybe 60watts and it was definitely MINUTES later that the light was pretty close to, but definitely not 100watts of output.

Another reason we will continue to use incandescents in that lamp is it constantly is getting knocked over and while the CFLs are maybe 50% less likely to blow upon impact they still do and with the cost of them exponentially higher than incandescents it's a no brainer.

While we're on the subject of why CFL sucks...  Don't they wreak havoc on video recordings, both digital and analog?  I know they used to (at least full sized fluorescents did.)  I remember some camera I used a while back that the video looked like a horror movie with how much flicker the light induced.

I'll definitely be stocking up on incandescents when we get closer to the kill date!

P.S.
This subject reminds me of and episode of Married With Children where Al sells his toilet to a neighbor because all that you can buy these days is low-flow models and his was old and could get the job done better.  Yea, I can see that happening if this goes down as planned.  You'll be seeing light bulbs on ebay for butloads of mulah.

shardian:

--- Quote from: crashwg on December 20, 2007, 03:28:50 pm ---
While we're on the subject of why CFL sucks...  Don't they wreak havoc on video recordings, both digital and analog?  I know they used to (at least full sized fluorescents did.)  I remember some camera I used a while back that the video looked like a horror movie with how much flicker the light induced.


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Warning: tangent incoming.

I am working on a Library right now in which the architect calls for lay-in tile ceilings, but then there isn't a single drop in light fixture in the building. :dunno Everything was wire hung fluorescents hung upside down.

At a recent job meeting I asked the electrical contractor why, and he said that the architect only used indirect fluorescent lighting because standard fluorescent fixtures have the possibility of triggering epileptic seizures. I suppose that when the whole ceiling flickers from the indirect lighting, that is okay then. ;D

And yes, I have noticed that some of my CFL's have pretty bad flickering.

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