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WDS wrote:

On Nov 30, 7:24*am, clams_casino wrote:
Doc wrote:
On Nov 29, 7:07 am, The Daring Dufas wrote:

One thing I have found when dealing
with a number of CFL lights is the fact that the
lamps have a warm up period.

Okay, I see it gets considerably brighter with time. However, this
seems like something of an annoyance if I want there to be light
*now*. Sort of like revisting TV's that need warming up or something.

On the other hand, it has the advantage of not immediately blinding you
when you flip the light on in the dark.

It takes some adjustment, but after a few weeks, you'll probably no
longer even notice.

Indeed. When we built out house my wife had them put in special
switches that slowly raise the light level because she hates being
blinded. When we started switching to CFLs on other lights we hardly
noticed.

Some brands are much quicker than others, too. And some lines within
a brand. Unfortunately no one puts "full brightness in 47 seconds!"
on the packages.

There is a general trend for ones with outer bulbs to start dimmer and
take more time to warm up than ones with bare tubing. Ones with outer
bulbs have their tubing designed to work best at the higher temperature
that occurs inside the bulb-enclosed ones.

- Don Klipstein )