You can also buy full-range fluorescents, at least in the 4' & 8'
sizes. They imitate sunlite at 6000K. Pricey, about $8 Canadian, but
much better light. That's all I have in the 12 or so fluorescent lites
I have around the house.
Tom
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From: HI100@xxxxxxx
Date sent: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 08:34:05 EDT
> In a message dated 9/18/99 12:22:14 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> siddim01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> << re. swithing off lamps etc.
> I would suggest that you look into compact florescents, a la Philips
> EarthLights. Color (to the eye) is comparable to that od an incandescent
> (golden hue), but it's still florescent (pictures turn out green...).
> I managed to convince my parents to change all the daily/high use/living
> area to those. >>
>
> Most but not all of the common compact flourescents are so called warm-white
> (often marked WW) and hence produce much more red than the old cool white
> (CW) units. The WW's don't turn you into Boris Karloff and are visually hard
> to distinguish from incandescent lamps . In Europe the Warm lamps are often
> termed "Deluxe". Unfortunatey the spare bulbs that are stocked in the Home
> improvement stores are often Cool white particularly the "circline" style.
> Also the cheapest versions of the circleline style of lamps are usually CW
> and worse do not use solid state ballasts so flicker for ages until they
> start. In regular 4ft etc straight flourescents an even warmer colour
> rendering can be obtained using lamps marked KB or "kitchen bathroom".
> Unfortunately most consumers aren't aware of the differences and buy on
> price. The 69c specials are never KB lamps but turn everybody into
> Frankenstein. The KB tubes usually run more like $5. but are definetly worth
> it in quality of light.
>
> Tim Hughes
> Hi100@xxxxxxx
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