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I put a CFL bulb 100-watt equivalent) in my reading lamp, and I can't read any more than about 20 minutes, before my eyes get sleepy and I have to stop reading. But if I go to a place where the light is incandescent (60 watt), I have no trouble reading for a couple of hours. The same outdoors, where I can read for over an hour, even at night with a porch light.
I've googled this, and can find very little authoritative information about it. Have any of you noticed a reduction in your reading stamina when using CFL lights?
The first thing I thought of was the computer monitor equivalent of "refresh rate". The higher refresh rate on your monitor, the easier on your eyes. Not sure if incandescent and CFL are both illuminating 60 times a second.
Did you buy bright or soft lighting bulbs? It has taken the industry sometime to offer soft lighting but I got some from my electric company (Duke) for free.
I put the cfl bulbs in my basement overhead fixtures that hold them upside down and they burned out in a few weeks they are NG Moderator cut: off topic
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I hate.....absolutely hate them d**n CFLs....total junk.
I tinker around with electronics as a hobby.....build circuits, do labs......things like that. Try to function with the pathetic light the CFLs put out.........very hard.
I have a major problem with florescent lighting of any kind. My eyes are so sensitive to it that I can't hardly be in that kind of light. It is
called "photophobia" and I have suffered with it for over a year now and stay shut up in my dark house just about all the time.
I have to go out so I wear a baseball hat and dark glasses and plan my outings carefully so I won't be in the stores any longer than I have to. I have Migraine Associated Vertigo and those lights are one of my triggers.
I am buying up as many of the regular light bulbs as I can..
Everyone needs to educate themselves on the dangers of the florescent bulbs and the proper way to handle a broken one and how to dispose them. They have Mercury in them and are TOXIC! You don't want your children or babies in the room with a broken one.
i prefer to read by GE reveal light bulbs. most natural light i can find.
All my lights are 'daylight' bulbs which are near full spectrum. The color they cast is blue over the dulled yellow that regular cfs bulbs do. I also have one sunlight bulb, equivilant to an ott light (even mentioned on the package) in the reading, crafts corner. I do have a problem with regular cfs tinge, but the daylights are wonderful and the only kind I can see really clearly in, far exceeding the standard kind. Haven't tried the LED's yet.
A cheap way to buy an Ott light, is not pay the 50 or so in a craft store but buy a 100 watt eq sunlight bulb and put it in a standard lamp. With stiching, you get the TRUE colors of the threads which only a full spectrum bulb will.
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