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    Reccomend LED Office Lighting

    I have a couple pretty in depth threads about what I've tried in my commercial buildings.
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    A general CFL question regarding safety

    In my experience, it's only a lifespan issue.
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    8' T8 retrofit

    Yes, the state is paying for this as well! Glad to know you the 8's worked well for you.
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    8' T8 retrofit

    The last time I dealt with an 8' T12 to T8 conversion, the technology was still relatively new. We swapped the ballasts and bulbs and left the fixtures intact. Those ballasts lasted a year or two before the vast majority of them failed. As they failed, we ended up putting the old T12 bulbs...
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    Best bulbs for vanity light?

    Now we're trying WCCW CFLs, the cool being daylight. She likes this, at least for now.
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    Best bulbs for vanity light?

    The goal is both color rendering and wife-pleasing. These two may not always be parallel.
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    Best bulbs for vanity light?

    Reveals are lot less bright than the daylight CFLs, and they seem very yellow. I guess I need to look for 4000-5000k LEDs with high CRI and ~800 lumens.
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    Best bulbs for vanity light?

    You convinced me, I'll pick some up today.
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    Best bulbs for vanity light?

    Still havent gotten around to buying new bulbs . . . I put in 4 daylight spiral bulbs just to see what the wife said. She thinks they're great. "The other ones were rosy, these are much better!" I hate daylight bulbs.
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    Best bulbs for vanity light?

    FWIW I did a little experimenting tonight without buying anything new-- 4 warm white CFLs. Tried replacing one with an incandescent. No noticeable difference. Tried replacing one with a daylight CFL. HUGE difference in both the color rendering and the light itself. Bathroom seems WAAAAYYYY...
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    Best bulbs for vanity light?

    The LED and CFL globes dont look bad, but using regular type A anything does look odd.
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    Best bulbs for vanity light?

    I actually really like GE reveal bulbs. You think I am better off with these than with anything LEDs can do?
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    Best bulbs for vanity light?

    Over the past few months, my wife has gotten insanely serious about hair and makeup, to the point of making her own videos on YouTube and the like. She typically uses the bathroom mirror, and the vanity has four warm white globe CFL bulbs that have been with me since our last house. The...
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    Ordering LEDs direct from China (AliBaba/AliExpress)

    I got my last shipment of PAR30's. One died within the first hour of operation. The rest work(ed) fine. Whoever said that these companies whatever LEDs they can get their hands on for each order might be on to something. This batch, all 50 bulbs have a slight yellow tint, similar to...
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    LED Strip Lighting: Bright enough for task lighting

    I was gonna say! Mine is 60 LEDs/M and it's way brighter than I expected. 600/M would drown out the sun.
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