> I have dimmable flourescent cove lighting in my kitchen with daylight
> bulbs. I hadn't known that one could dim fluorescents until I built this
> house 10 years ago. When talking to the guy at the lighting store,
> I was grousing about having to choose incandescent lighting if I
> wanted it to be dimmable. He said no problem and ordered special
> ballasts from a company in Boston. The controls are the ordinary
> dimmer switches [sic] you'd use with incandescent lights.
GE makes compact fluorescents that can be dimmed with a standard X-10
controller. You get only about 10 steps before the lamp "fades to zero", but
it really works. Look for models labeled "dimmable".
> Flourescent [sic] dimmers have been around for a while now,
> and they are great.
To the best of my knowledge, there's no such thing as a dimmer for
fluorescent lamps. Rather, the lamp itself is dimmable (or not). See above.
> There is [sic] a lot of different tubes available for flourescent [sic]
> fixtures, often measured in Degrees [sic] Calvin [sic].
Not to be confused with the Hobbes scale of tuna-fish quality.
The color temperature of a light source, measured in degrees Kelvin, applies
only to sources with continuous spectra. Fluorescent (note the spelling)
lamps do not have continuous spectra. Any color-temperature spec applies
only to the subjective visible appearance of the light. Film and sensors
will not, in general, "see" the light the same way as the eye.
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