Thread: Blue CFL Flood vs Blue Flood (regular bulb)

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I bought a couple of CFL blue bulbs from lampsplus.com. After about an hour, the CFL bulb is cool around the silver side (base) to the touch, but the glass was getting a little hot (could leave hand there about 10 secs). But as most of you know, the regular flood was burning up after inly a couple of mins. Here they are side by side so you can see the intensity. I thought just to buy to compare them eventually to LED's, ( I have them on order) but CFL's were cheaper. The CFL is on the left, and reg flood on the right.

From the photographs it looks like the CFL isn't as bright as the incandescent. But because there is less glare the images lit by the CFL are clearer. How did they look to you in person? What's your opinion? BTW, thanks for sharing your experiment with us.

I use the swirl ice cream cone looking cfls in a reflecive silver hood that clamps onto stuff. The big advantage I found was they use way less electricity so I can put many lights on one circuit. For white light I have started using 25w small round incandescent bulbs. The white cfl bulbs were too bright.

Thanks for sharing you experience with the CFL floods.

Have you used them outside and if you did how do they hold up in the rain? I've popped more than a few normal floods when the gaskets don't seal properly.

I use all CLFs and I use some in clamp lamps with no seal and none have gone out in 3 years. I repack them in my lighting set up for the next year.

I used the colored CFL's (swirl type from Home depot) outside for all of October to light my house (sort of a build up to the big night). I used the green plastic fixtures from Home Depot and Cut the top and bottom off some soda bottle to build the neck (i either painted or gorilla taped them). They survived the whole month and made it through the 12" of snow we had with zero problems.

I have some cfl's and didn't think they put out as much.Maybe I got some bad ones cause they look like they put out alot of light.

We used the CFL's in our cemetery this year, the colour is more intense than the standard flood. I like that they have low energy draw and also had no issues with using them outdoors. I have posted pictures below, the garage maze/dungeon was lit with LED's, I love using them also and they are DMX ready.

https://picasaweb.google.com/1172299...Halloween2011#

Blue CFL's give a glowy look like UV. I like them much better than regular blue bulbs.

Originally Posted by bluize

From the photographs it looks like the CFL isn't as bright as the incandescent. But because there is less glare the images lit by the CFL are clearer. How did they look to you in person? What's your opinion? BTW, thanks for sharing your experiment with us.

The images of the CFL are clearer and richer, but notice you cant read the top of the box that well. The regular flood you could read the top of the box (so you could read tombstones better? don't know-but my tombstones lettering much bigger so don't think it would matter)
Overall, the CFL color was very rich and lit up my entire closet.