Red_Chili
Hard Core 4+
My family is none too good about turning off lights. So I get to pay the electric bill AND climb ladders to replace them - hence, my desire to use CF lighting as much as possible in our remodeled bungalow.
Spent a ton of green going green at Home Depot- not the highest quality lighting, and it takes a minute to warm up and be bright, but dangit it works pretty good. So far so good.
Put the bulbs in the can lights in the basement, flip the switch, and my wife's lovely buckskin/mustard paint color turns pea green. "No WAY" says the wifey. I go back and buy 10 'bright white', daylight color bulbs, and try one - not *quite* as bad, but still pea greenish. I shuffle off dejectedly to the store, return 9 CFs, and buy 10 incandescents. Buckskin paint color looks normal.
But two weeks later TWO OF THEM ARE BURNED OUT ALREADY, and the basement is gonna be left on more than anywhere else!
So what do I need to look for to find a compact fluorescent PAR30 bulb that won't turn the walls green? Interestingly, the tube fluorescents in the mechanical room don't seem to have the same effect on a paint swatch, maybe *slightly* greenish but acceptable. That's where I got the 'daylight' idea for the PAR 30s, which failed.
HEP!!! SUMBUNNY HEP!!!
Spent a ton of green going green at Home Depot- not the highest quality lighting, and it takes a minute to warm up and be bright, but dangit it works pretty good. So far so good.
Put the bulbs in the can lights in the basement, flip the switch, and my wife's lovely buckskin/mustard paint color turns pea green. "No WAY" says the wifey. I go back and buy 10 'bright white', daylight color bulbs, and try one - not *quite* as bad, but still pea greenish. I shuffle off dejectedly to the store, return 9 CFs, and buy 10 incandescents. Buckskin paint color looks normal.
But two weeks later TWO OF THEM ARE BURNED OUT ALREADY, and the basement is gonna be left on more than anywhere else!
So what do I need to look for to find a compact fluorescent PAR30 bulb that won't turn the walls green? Interestingly, the tube fluorescents in the mechanical room don't seem to have the same effect on a paint swatch, maybe *slightly* greenish but acceptable. That's where I got the 'daylight' idea for the PAR 30s, which failed.
HEP!!! SUMBUNNY HEP!!!