"Steve Kraus" wrote in message
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Is there a CF brand that is a whiter light but not so extreme as the
daylight ones which look blue to many people?

Colors of CFL are becoming standardized. For home use, the standard color
is designed to be a close match to that of standard incandescent lamps. If
you buy a CFL in a retail outlet with the Energy Star symbol on it, you'll
get that color.

To get a "whiter" or "cooler" color, you'll likely have to get a
commercial/industrial CFL product. Look in the lamp catalogs or on CFL
packages for the CFL "Chromaticity" rating in "Kelvins". It works like
this:

2700 K = warm tone (like low-wattage incandescent)
3000 K = warm tone (like high-wattage or halogen incandescent)
3500 K = neutral white tone
4100 K = cool tone (similar to traditional cool white fluoresent)
5000 K and higher = very cool tone like daylight or blue sky

TKM