12-10-2013, 10:50 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-10-2013, 10:51 AM by ppppenguin.)
For domestic use you definitely want warm white.
There's not much point in using low energy lighting in rooms where the lights don't burn for long. CFLs in the toilet are about as bad as you can get. Long warm up time and virtually no saving. Some CFLs warm up a lot quicker than others. The Philips spiral ones seem to be good (turbo? tornado?)
For rooms where you don't mind the appearance good old fluorescents give a lot of light for the money. Triphosphor tubes give good colour rendering and if you can get high frequency fittings there's no flicker.
PS: David, who is Jeremy?
There's not much point in using low energy lighting in rooms where the lights don't burn for long. CFLs in the toilet are about as bad as you can get. Long warm up time and virtually no saving. Some CFLs warm up a lot quicker than others. The Philips spiral ones seem to be good (turbo? tornado?)
For rooms where you don't mind the appearance good old fluorescents give a lot of light for the money. Triphosphor tubes give good colour rendering and if you can get high frequency fittings there's no flicker.
PS: David, who is Jeremy?
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