In article . com, dated
Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Martin Brown wrote
On Mar 9, 6:51 pm, Kate Brown wrote:
In article , dated Fri, 9 Mar 2007,
Gianna wrote
e.g. the only ordinary light bulbs I have left in use (3x 25w, 1x 40w)
are in fittings where it is not physically possible to insert the low
wattage fluorescents. They are seldom used - should that change I will
need to change the light fittings.
I commend you, and would like to do the same, except we can't find any
that give a light we can live in for any length of time. We tried them
in the kitchen, which is a pretty cheerful duck-egg blue - they turned
the walls a sad greenish grey which was desperately depressing. If
anyone can recommend ones with a decent colour spectrum we'd buy them
like a shot.
You want one with a modified warm phosphor. Typically they are
packaged to look more like a chunky traditional light bulb/jamjar
hybrid. The economy ones with the tubes visible tend to have a classic
fluorescent green mercury line cast.
Thanks, I'll have a look for them - the only problem there is that if
they are the ones I'm thinking of, they are too big to fit in our
existing recessed kitchen ceiling lights...
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