Spoken like a man that tried the early stuff back around 1998, and made up his mind. And that's it.
/johnny
“Spoken like a man that tried the early stuff back around 1998, and made up his mind. And that’s it.”
Wrong. Tried the first ones in about 2007. The small floods I put in about 3 years ago in a home office take about 3 minutes to get bright enough to read by.
I use more than 220 TCP 1R4014IB CFL’s in my home. They are enclosed in a normal R40 flood light glass envelope so you can’t easily see the curly light inside. In addition they are in recessed “can light” fixtures so you don’t see much of the bulb to begin with. These bulbs are not “ugly” and have a good color temperature. TCP calls them “Instabright” and have about 80% of their brightness when turned on cold making them great for hallways and bathrooms.
I also have florescent tube lights, incandescent lights and LED lights in various places...