Reply #72: I need to get a few CFLs [View All]

[IndyBob]

Don't have any now, but they make a lot of sense. I guess I will replace an incandescent as they go out, and see how I like them.

In the winter, the fact that incandescents waste energy as heat isn't as much of an issue. In the summer, totally different of course.

My only concern is light quality. Are the CFLs getting better? How would CFLs work for track lighting directed at framed art for example?

This does not apply often, but the rule used to be DO NOT use fluorescents around any rotating machinery. Fluorescents turn on and off at the same frequency as the incoming juice, 60 times a second. Motors tend to run at the same speeds, or a multiple of that speed. Bottom line, a machine could be spinning at 60 rev/second, but to the eye it is standing still. The same as a strobe light effect. Machine looks off, stick fingers in, lose fingers, OUCH.