"Weatherlawyer" wrote in message
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On Jul 15, 10:37 am, (Andrew Gabriel)
wrote:

Lamp manufacturers spent some time trying to work out what the
light properties are that make people dislike CFLs versus filament
lamps.

The bottom line is they can't find any - in double blind trials,
for those who claim to dislike CFLs, their like or dislike of lamps
depends on if they think the lamps are CFLs or filament, and not if
the lamps are actually CFL or filament lamps.

Sounds like the sort of study pharmaceutical companies try on us.
I hate the damned things.



I have to say, me too. There's a hotel that I stay in fairly regularly in
America. They changed all the reading lamps over the beds a few years ago,
and without the knowledge of this, I knew immediately what they had done,
the first time I switched one on. You can't see the actual lamp, as it is
behind a frosted panel, but once you realise that something is different,
and have a good look, you can see that the light is coming from a spiral CFL
now. I also find that if you are out walking at night, you can spot the
lounges (that have their curtains open) which are being lit by CFLs,
immediately. The light, to me at least, has a slightly 'sick' caste to it.

We have a pair of them in our bedside lights. Fortunately, I don't read at
night in bed at home, so it's of little consequence. However, when the
things are on, the light they give out is sort of 'thick' and 'creamy'
rather than 'sharp' and 'sparkly' (sorry, I can't come up with anything
better-descriptive !) like an incandescent. The bulbs I am currently using
in the main lighting areas of my house, are the ones where a pearl envelope
encloses a halogen capsule bulb. Even they are now getting hard to obtain in
a pearl version. I have been told by a friend who owns an electrical shop,
that there is now a company that does a bayonet or ES adaptor base to
accommodate halogen capsules, and a range of assorted shaped (conventional,
golf ball, candle etc) detachable pearl envelopes that screw onto the base
over the capsule. He says that you can't tell them, shape and size-wise,
from the original all-in-one incandescents that we all knew and loved ...

Arfa