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I had a good conversation with the stock woman at the BiMart electrical section. She was highly knowledgeable and we got down. We both celebrated Christmas light strings of LED's consuming a small fraction. Then she said, I do not like the screw-in flourescents for color quality in my home. I said, wow, interesting, because I like them as being sufficiently yellow to feel good. Thinking back, I adapted a yellow brass fixture which holds two 15 W screwins. I told her I appreciated her opinion and we were cool. What do other people experience in this conversion?

I have several screw in CFLs that are a nice warm yellow, 2700K is what the label claims. They seem to be hard to find though, it’s as if the manufacturers think we -want- cold white bulbs, just because they look like daylight.

I don't put on makeup or anything, so I'm probably not the best judge, but I actually prefer the softness of my compact flourescents. I've been using them for nearly a decade.

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Mine are 2700 degrees and are common in the market here. Maybe there's older stock.

 

We cannot expect everyone to be as we are so what I will say to this person is that fixtures can help color, including lampshades. Also, I do use my more red-toned 40W incand. running on a 'LOW' wall switch presumably around 20W as I once described my kitchen as otherwise flourescent.

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