"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
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Why is it that when one wants cfls, one is forced to have the weird light
output that many find hazy and hard to see in? I'd have thought that the
really white phosphoreds would add very little to the cost and be much
better for lighting purposes, or is the cream/green/yellow fuzzy one very
much more efficient or something?
It even makes my eyes feel tired even though I cannot see in it.

Brian

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From the sofa of Brian Gaff -

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I really don't know what it is about CFLs over linear flourescents. I have
absolutely no problem whatsoever seeing under incandescents or linears of
any colour persuasion, neither do I find their light objectionable in any
way. However, I hate the sickly light that CFLs generate, and have great
trouble reading under them. None of them of any colour temperature or CRI
seem to suit me. About the only thing that I can say is that they use a
tricolour phosphor mix, and this produces a highly discontinuous spectrum
compared to daylight or incandescent light, but then the spectrum from
linear flourescents isn't very clever, either.

Lots of people will now jump on the thread and say that they can't see
anything at all wrong with CFLs, and that the light from them is perfect etc
etc. Maybe this is true for them, and I'm sure most people, but it is not
for me, and apparently Brian. I do have a degree of colour blindness, and
maybe it's this, combined with the 'holey' spectrum, that combines to make
their light objectionable to me.

On a more practical level, I tried putting one in my bench light a while
back. Unfortunately, it was worse than useless for what I do (electronic
service work), as the discontinuous spectrum played havoc with being able to
correctly identify resistor colour code bands. Orange was barely
distinguishable from brown and sometimes red, and blue, green and grey were
also a problem with some resistor types. I have no such problems working
under incandescent light.

Arfa