The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #117027   Message #2517470
Posted By: Genie
17-Dec-08 - 01:49 AM
Thread Name: BS: Unpleasant new coil lighting!
Subject: RE: BS: Unpleasant new coil lighting!
I look forward to LED lights too, but I'm pretty happy with my CFLs.   Some of them are full-spectrum "Daylight" bulbs, and I find them pretty easy on the eyes. I don't notice a whine from any of them.
I have a couple of reading lamps that are very bright and supposedly full spectrum and my eyes tire much less easily when I use them than when I use incandescents with comparable light output.    I got one of those for my then-85-year-old mom, who used to read all day by an incandescent lamp, and she loved the new one and swears by it; her eyesight seems to have benefitted a lot from it. (These lamps don't use the curly bulbs. They use a bulb that has 4 slender straight prongs side-by side.)

One time/place where I think incandescents make sense is where/when you don't mind if a good deal of the energy spent is turned to heat rather than light.   E.g., in winter time, the incandescents may provide enough heat to compensate for some of the furnace's work.   Another use I have for incandescents is for lights that are seldom turned on for more than a few minutes at a time - especially if they're turned on and off frequently, such as my motion-sensored porch lights.