Light Bulbs

[drplokta]

I'm delighted to discover that GE have finally figured out how to make a fluorescent low-energy light bulb the same size as an incandescent, so that it will fit in the same light-shades. Now if they can just sort out the warm-up time, the harsh spectrum, the inability to use them with dimmers and the inability to activate light-sensitive devices, the government's stated aim of banning incandescents might start to look remotely possible.

Comments

[redbird]

I was going to note that my compact fluorescents have no noticeable warmup time (I'm sure it's measurable, and so would the warmup time for an incandescent bulb be measurable) and a reasonable spectrum, and then I looked at the comments. Is it that much harder at UK voltages? Or are you just a year or two behind us on this one?

Dimmers would be nice, yes. We still have an incandescent in the bedroom, because that circuit has a dimmer switch (installed by a previous resident).

[armb.livejournal.com]

They vary. Some fluorescents have shorter startup times, some are more compact, some have better spectrums, some work with dimmers.
But finding ones with all of those desirable properties at once, at a reasonable price, is still hard to impossible.