As CFLs make a bid to take over the incandescent lighting market, here are the 10 things you need to know about the technology
Close your eyes and imagine the fluorescent lamp fixtures from your childhood. These lights most likely hummed, flickered, buzzed, and created harsh, unnatural light. If you stood under one of these light fixtures, you may have appeared a pale shade of green. The first ones that came out had old magnetic ballasts so they would go blink, blink, blink and drive people crazy, says Russ Leslie, associate
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