Thread: Are name-brand low-energy fluorescent "Green" bulbs any brighter thanstore brand?
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Default Are name-brand low-energy fluorescent "Green" bulbs any brighterthan store brand?
On Nov 30, 12:04*pm, (Don Klipstein) wrote:
* 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.

Oddly the ones we have the get to full brightness the fastest and the
slowest are the ones in "more traditional" packaging (i.e., with an
outer shell around the twisty one).

BTW, one more thing to do is in a multi-bulb fixture put in one
incandescent bulb to provide immediate brightness.
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