In article , mm wrote:
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 01:36:34 +0000 (UTC), (Don
Klipstein) wrote:
In article , mm wrote:
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:46:00 -0700, Random Netizen
wrote:
And I don't think they give the broad range of frequencies
that incandescent lamps give. AIUI they just give the frequency that
the gas inside fluoresces at. Maybe there is more than one gas and
2 or 3 frequencies, although I haven't heard that, but 2 or 3 is still
too few.
Unless someone convinces me otherwise, I wouldn't want one to be the
sole source of light in a room, but I'm willing to use it for an
outdoor or close light where no one will be using it for long, or the
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FTR, I meant closet light. 
For unrelated reasons, I recommend against compact fluorescents for
closet lights. Closet lights normally have on-time so low as to have low
need for energy efficiency and on-time short enough to have a major impact
on operating-hours life expectancy of fluorescents - compact or otherwise.
SNIP
I'll have to let my eyes be my guide. (So far the bulbs are too long
to go a lot of places I have light bubls anyhow.)
Spirals of wattage up to 13-15 watts generally do a good job of fitting
where incandescents fit, and at least some 9-watt ones with light output
of a 40 watt incandescent are in no dimension larger than has to be
allowed for an "A19" "regular lightbulb".
But I agree to use incandescents for closet lights.
- Don Klipstein )