My kitchen ceiling utilizes five 75-watt indoor "floods" and my radio room
uses two, also.
A year or two ago I bought two low-wattage replacement fluorescent floods
for the ones in my radio room, since I was looking for a brighter, whiter
light where I do a lot of reading and detail writing/drawing. Depening on
how they worked out, it was my intention to then fill the kitchen sockets
with them, too. I'm not sure if the bulbs I bought were what you guys are
calling CFLs or not, but I think they were around 17 watts each. Since
they're indoor flood replacements, I have to assume they were designed for
base-high mounting.
Three problems with them caused me to revert to standard incandescent
floods:
1. They took "forever" to get up to useable brilliance.
2. They didn't even last a year before I had to replace one of the two.
3. One day I realized that the rough drifting signals I was hearing on 80
meters disappeared when I turned my radio room light switch off.
I'm back to incandescent bulbs now.
Bud, W2RU
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