Fwd: [Tig] bulbs for the home

[Rob Lingelbach]

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> From: P_Stansfield <P_Stansfield at compuserve.com>
> Date: January 2, 2007 5:31:34  GMT-02:00
> To: Rob Lingelbach <rob at colorist.org>
> Subject: [Tig] bulbs for the home
>
> Rob
>
> The same is happening here in the UK. There's heavy promotion of 'long
> life' or 'low energy'
> bulbs - to the point that elderly people, like my mother in law,  
> get given
> boxes of them. She didn't
> want them so I tried using them.
>
>  I first used them in my outside light housings. Almost no useful  
> light
> came out, as due to the different dimensions
> compared with ordinary incandescent bulbs
> the source of the light was now well in the roof of the lamp housing
>
> I then tried them in my hallway, where I have a dimmer that I use  
> at night.
> However I found that
> these 'long life' bulbs don't seem to work on dimmers!
>
> Like you, I dislike them intensely. (no pun intended) and would  
> like to
> know how their spectrum
> is composed. I'm not against saving energy, or 'the planet', but  
> there's a
> limit as to how far I'll go!
>
> Regards (and happy new year to the tiggers)
>
> Peter Stansfield
> Wavecrest Systems Ltd
>
>
>
>
> I then tried Message text written by Rob Lingelbach
>>
>
>
> here in Brasil, the bulb of choice for the homeowner, apartment-
> dweller, etc. is a screw-in fluorescent bulb which I remember, when
> living in Burbank CA in 2002, as being one of  "the answers" to
> energy efficiency.
>
> I don't like the spectrum emitted by these bulbs but I have a feeling
> it differs according to the manufacturer.  The whole "movement"
> towards fluorescent reminds me of the same surge toward sodium light
> for the street, which is a sad replacement for the more (for me)
> realistic mercury light.  And for the home, I admit I'm very biased
> toward the incandescent bulb.
>
> I'm interested to hear more comments on this subject, as it has to do
> with our seeing from day-to-day.
>
> Rob<
>