COLORED CFL's:
I was "forced" to replace one of my ACE Hardware brand bug light bulbs w/ a Bug Light CFL!
That incandescent bulb gave off a perfect glow: A combination of yellow & ORANGE and not the pale YELLOW a brand like GE, Westinghouse, Phillips or Sylvania gives off (which led me to believe I needed an orange CFL "party light", of which I got stuck w/ a couple as "a bad buy" so found a couple lamps at my dad's/late-mom's place to put those in!
The incandescent bug light really didn't need replacing, but I prepared myself just in case the time would come, so I'm trying to get used to the more yellow look which looks a lot better than the orange did...
I have another lamp that ACE Bug Lite bulb is in, which I know nothing will look good in but that, so I'm preparing myself to CFL that one, too...
My bed room, however has a GE Bug Lite, but I'll wait till it burns out before I put in the other yellow CFL that I bought; I should get more adapted to it, there...
I'm a fan of lamps w/ three bulbs & the 3-way switch which turns on 1, 2 or all 3, of which on
e is in my bedroom & the one I put the CFL bug light in is in my parlor... I tried to find those squarish-shaped bulbs that Westinghouse used to make (Eye Saver) and luckily Phillips makes them & they are in each lamp... I managed to rescue a 60W Phillips orig. that my in-laws had, which is in another lamp & still works, while a Westinghouse Eye Saver 100 W that I took out of their garage (climbed on a fairly short ladder to take it out of the ceiling & it was a long reach w/ my father-in-law's Acura parked right under it) just before they moved out of their old house, but it died in my laundry room at the apt. we used to live in...
One thing though: I dislike those fiber-optic bulbs which cost around $6 to replace & I have a couple of 4-bulb track light-type fixtures that use them (and I must have replaced at least four of those bulbs) and I want to go retro & buy an old drum-shaped fixture as well as a single light fixture with matching shades that have the lined circles embossed under them, and the lines & diamond patterns on the sides of the glass... Hopefully I'll get enough light from them even w/ the max. being 60W per bulb or can get squiggly fluorescent stuff in 'em!
I do have a double-halo circular fluorescent in the hallway over my basement stairs (replacing a two 60W incandescent set-up, in an upside-down dome shaped fixture w/ a single screw below it which the bedrooms & hallway leading to 'em have & the front hallway has one but w/ 3 incan. bulbs) & that is a lot of light in that little hallway! I probably should have put that in the kitchen, but I go down in the basement a lot & need the lights on there, (there are three ceiling panel fluorescent lights there, one which go on w/ the upstairs hall & the other have their own switch in the basement) so I look at the energy I'm saving....
-- Dave
I was "forced" to replace one of my ACE Hardware brand bug light bulbs w/ a Bug Light CFL!
That incandescent bulb gave off a perfect glow: A combination of yellow & ORANGE and not the pale YELLOW a brand like GE, Westinghouse, Phillips or Sylvania gives off (which led me to believe I needed an orange CFL "party light", of which I got stuck w/ a couple as "a bad buy" so found a couple lamps at my dad's/late-mom's place to put those in!
The incandescent bug light really didn't need replacing, but I prepared myself just in case the time would come, so I'm trying to get used to the more yellow look which looks a lot better than the orange did...
I have another lamp that ACE Bug Lite bulb is in, which I know nothing will look good in but that, so I'm preparing myself to CFL that one, too...
My bed room, however has a GE Bug Lite, but I'll wait till it burns out before I put in the other yellow CFL that I bought; I should get more adapted to it, there...
I'm a fan of lamps w/ three bulbs & the 3-way switch which turns on 1, 2 or all 3, of which on
e is in my bedroom & the one I put the CFL bug light in is in my parlor... I tried to find those squarish-shaped bulbs that Westinghouse used to make (Eye Saver) and luckily Phillips makes them & they are in each lamp... I managed to rescue a 60W Phillips orig. that my in-laws had, which is in another lamp & still works, while a Westinghouse Eye Saver 100 W that I took out of their garage (climbed on a fairly short ladder to take it out of the ceiling & it was a long reach w/ my father-in-law's Acura parked right under it) just before they moved out of their old house, but it died in my laundry room at the apt. we used to live in...
One thing though: I dislike those fiber-optic bulbs which cost around $6 to replace & I have a couple of 4-bulb track light-type fixtures that use them (and I must have replaced at least four of those bulbs) and I want to go retro & buy an old drum-shaped fixture as well as a single light fixture with matching shades that have the lined circles embossed under them, and the lines & diamond patterns on the sides of the glass... Hopefully I'll get enough light from them even w/ the max. being 60W per bulb or can get squiggly fluorescent stuff in 'em!
I do have a double-halo circular fluorescent in the hallway over my basement stairs (replacing a two 60W incandescent set-up, in an upside-down dome shaped fixture w/ a single screw below it which the bedrooms & hallway leading to 'em have & the front hallway has one but w/ 3 incan. bulbs) & that is a lot of light in that little hallway! I probably should have put that in the kitchen, but I go down in the basement a lot & need the lights on there, (there are three ceiling panel fluorescent lights there, one which go on w/ the upstairs hall & the other have their own switch in the basement) so I look at the energy I'm saving....
-- Dave
