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In article .com,
writes:

A quick heat mode would solve the warm up issue, but would also cost a
bit more money. Until we see cfls with this feature, some are better
than others at warm up.

BTW why do you say best to use ones with no outer glass envelope?

The outer glass envelope will always be slightly lossy, so avoid
it unless really needed.

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Andrew Gabriel