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On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:56:10 -0500, "Pete C."

Never had much luch with the F40 tubes either, and "green" t12s are
even worse. I'm down to only 3 of those disasters left in the house.


You can sort of blame the enviromental people. The new bulbs do not contain
enough mercury to really light off, especially if it gets cold.