If you are planning to have a lathe, pillar drill or things that turn,
an ordinary light bulb of some sort would be a must IMO, last thing
you need is to be lulled into thinking something has stopped when it
is still turning.

This can be overcome by using fittings incorporating an electronic ballast.
This runs the tube at a much higher frequency (i.e. many kHz) and eliminates
the stroboscopic effect. They can also be much easier on the eye to those
sensitive to flicker.

Christian.