Re: d-day

["John J. Bengii" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Until the inmternal gases are warmed up the bulb is lucky to show any
light at all. Electronic ballasts have helped this problem a lot.

"Neil Cherry" <njc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:09:53 +0100, Ghost wrote:
>> Why not good in cold climates?
>
> I can't comment the other comments but on the issue of cold I can.
> Basically the CFL bulb fails to fully light instead it just dimly
> flickers. One of my neighbors has a CFL on their front porch and if
> the temperatures are less than about 40F then the bulb just flickers
> all night long. During the spring/summer and part of the fall months
> it works great.
>
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