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Compact fluorescent lights have come a long way

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My wife hates CFLs because the light flickers compared to an incandescent light. Both of us always noticed this...plus CFLs take about 10 seconds to reach their full brightness. I'm sure these are things that people get used to. The thing that killed me was that fluorescent lights always were a different color than incandescent lights. Soft-white didn't used to be an option, but they finally wised up a year or so ago and started making these...

I went to walmart and picked up some great-value branded CFLs rated at 75 watt equiv ~ 18 watts. I'm putting them in some overhead lights and I've been somewhat impressed by their brightness and color. They're leaps and bounds above the lights I bought just 2 years ago when I was testnig them out. I feel as though CFLs may not be so bad if they stop making standard incandescents....I just wish the price per bulb would come down...despite how much longer they last.
 
I don't run my lights all night and rarely ever during the day so any savings on my electric bill would be marginal if noticeable at all. I can buy four incandescent light bulbs (name brand GE bulbs) for $0.80/pack - and I'm not exactly burning through them. It's a tough sell for me, the flickering doesn't help.
 
Originally posted by: LS8
I don't run my lights all night and rarely ever during the day so any savings on my electric bill would be marginal if noticeable at all. I can buy four incandescent light bulbs (name brand GE bulbs) for $0.80/pack - and I'm not exactly burning through them. It's a tough sell for me, the flickering doesn't help.
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Who does leave their lights on all night? I don't think your usage is really atypical.
 
The best CFLs I've yet to use.

The one thing they've yet to prove to me: The test of longevity. My luck with cheap off-brand CFLs has been poor - far too many don't even last a year. (I don't have exact numbers. Maybe 25% die prematurely like that.) Hopefully these Neolites do better. They put out nice light, have a very short warm-up time, come on instantly, and they are the most compact form-factor CFLs I've seen.


There should be no flickering either. Old CFLs might flicker if they used magnetic ballasts, and so you might get some flicker at either 60Hz or 120Hz, somewhere in that low range. New ones shouldn't though. I think their frequency is over 20kHz.

 
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The best CFLs I've yet to use.

The one thing they've yet to prove to me: The test of longevity. My luck with cheap off-brand CFLs has been poor - far too many don't even last a year. (I don't have exact numbers. Maybe 25% die prematurely like that.) Hopefully these Neolites do better. They put out nice light, have a very short warm-up time, come on instantly, and they are the most compact form-factor CFLs I've seen.


There should be no flickering either. Old CFLs might flicker if they used magnetic ballasts, and so you might get some flicker at either 60Hz or 120Hz, somewhere in that low range. New ones shouldn't though. I think their frequency is over 20kHz.
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I am looking for CF Flood Lights...price seems high compared to the GE Floods on Ebay..about $3 each compared to $5-$6+ on the above site
 
We have some that have not been replaced and these have traveled nearly a million miles! Talk about coming a long way...

Improvements galore, LED technology is nipping on the heels of the CFL lamp and before you know will be surpassing them on fronts.

CFL flood lights are OK but if you want to light up a larger area you should look into a HID luminaire.
 
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