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In my personal experience, the difference between a crappy CFL and a good CFL is huge. Low-end CFLs are dim, flickery, have a large warm-up period and often wor
by bendotc 15y ago
In my personal experience, the difference between a crappy CFL and a good CFL is huge. Low-end CFLs are dim, flickery, have a large warm-up period and often worse color. High-end CFLs, on the other hand, can have really nice quality light, good color balance (though I used whiter "full-spectrum" incandescent bulbs, so YMMV), and very little in the way of noticeable warm-up time.
You may still dislike CFLs and that's fine, but you may also have just been exposed to crappy ones.
- DavidAdams 15y agoAnd it's important to mention that "high end" CFLs now cost about $1 each. You can get bulbs at Home Depot for $4 for a pack of four that turn on immediately, don't flicker, and are available in three color profiles including a warm one that looks very much like an incandescent.
- Duff 15y agoAlso important to mention that it is non-trivial to tell the difference between a good, bad or indifferent CFL. Frankly, I'm not interested in doing a product comparison or multiple return trips on a lightbulb.
- Duff 15y agoAlso important to mention that it is non-trivial to tell the difference between a good, bad or indifferent CFL. Frankly, I'm not interested in doing a product comparison or multiple return trips on a lightbulb.
- lucisferre 15y agoWhere LED is valuable for me is in the dimmable category. I have "dimmable" CFLs and they are terrible, they barely dim and if you lower the dimmer too far they either blink or go off entirely. CFLs are just not dimmable.
- sixtofour 15y agoWhere LED is valuable for me is the absence of mercury. I break an incandescent bulb in my home at least twice a year.