Stupid Little Complaint

[oldgrover]

My bathroom lightbulbs burnt out. Well, 3 of 4 did. After suitable procrastination (since they are the globe type, not the normal type (though the socket is the same, they look nicer as a globe and if I put bulb ones in there I'll never replace them)), we did, indeed, get new ones. Nice, fancy flourescent ones

Comments

[halfabee]

Yup, that slight delay can be a little disturbing. I have one as the primary basement light. It's okay if I turn on the light and then open the door, but doing things in the opposite order gives me that extra delay.

Compact fluros are nice, but the have a habit of not fitting in fixtures.

[mskala]

Many compact fluorescent lights also do this thing where they start out dimmer than normal and take a while to get up to full brightness. Between that, the delay to start up, and the way the manufacturers shave a few extra watts off the rating so that even at full brightness, they're not really as bright as the incandescents they'll supposedly replace, I think it's no wonder they aren't more popular. I think instead of having advertising campaigns trying to get people to switch to a frankly inferior product, there should be some tax dollars spent on figuring out how to make the energy-efficient bulbs really work, dammit.

[sweh]

Yes, I have a number of compact fluorescent lights. The ones in the hallways seem to come on nice and quickly, but the ones in the kitchen have a noticable delay before reaching full brightness. It's a little annoying.