At 11:23 AM 4/15/01 -0700, John and Jodi Guerin wrote:
>I'm wondering if there is any alternative to traditional bulbs and
>fluorescent bulbs. Unfortunately I am among those who doesn't like the
>type of light put out by traditional fluorescent bulbs, and it would sure
>be nice to have better energy savings than regular bulbs. Are there any
>fluorescents out there that give off better looking light?
You can get different lamps for these lights- there will be
letters at the end, most of them are "CW" for Cool White (i.e. the bulb
will have the designation F15T8 CW). I like the warm white look, but there
are options.
Another option for the hard core tinker I got from the newsgroup
rec.outdoors.rv-travel. The whole post is here:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=neon++group:rec.outdoors.rv-travel&hl=en&lr=lang_en&safe=off&scoring=relevance&as_drrb=quick&as_qdr=&as_mind=15&as_minm=8&as_miny=2000&as_maxd=15&as_maxm=4&as_maxy=2001&rnum=4&seld=922337942&ic=1
I hope that comes out clickable- but here is the relevant part of
a post written by John De Armond :
>If you know someone who makes neon, he can make you neon tubes of
>the same length to fit in the fixture. It should run on the same
>inverter "ballast". If not, a replacement neon driver can be bought
>from Scientific Systems (on the web, don't have a URL handy) for
>about $15. All neon except clear red works exactly like a
>fluorescent lamp except that neon electrodes are designed to operate
>cold and thus don't sputter under normal circumstances. Neat thing
>about neon is that you have a wide range of colors to choose from.
>Tecnolux's "incandescent" color tubing almost exactly duplicates the
>spectrum of incandescent lamps. Gets rid of that cold feeling that
>fluorescent lamps produce even with warm white bulbs. That same
>phosphor is used in the compact fluorescent fixtures sold by
>Philips, etc. You've probably noticed that in the context of the
>metal halide lighting in Lowes, etc, that they appear yellowish
>orange. Really nice effect when used at home. The nice thing about
>neon technology is that it will last forever if properly processed.
>
>John
I haven't tried it, and cannot vouch for the accuracy- but it
sounds pretty cool.
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Bryant RV Services
DeLand, Florida
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