[PapaBear3625]

I took out the CFL bulbs I had put in as an experiment, and replaced them with halogen bulbs. I prefer halogen light to incandescent, and MUCH prefer over CFL.

CFL bulbs produce an odd light that I find irritating.

[jsanders2001]

I like halogen bulbs better too as far as light quality but they can be a little too overpowering inside the house

[thackney]

I prefer halogen light to incandescent

I know they market the two technologies with those names, but both are an incandescent light using a tungsten filament.

I the halogen models, a smaller internal chamber is added containing halogen gas. As the filament heats up and vaporizes some of the tungsten, it is redeposited back onto the filament prolonging the life and increasing efficiency.

[HamiltonJay]

CFL’s suck arse...

Put two on my front porch a while back, turn on the light on a dark cold night and its a good 2 minutes before they actually put off enough light to even see what is on the porch.

Put them in the bathroom, turn them on in the middle of the night for a visit and the time it takes them to warm up and go to full lumens is longer than the bathroom trip.

HORRIBLE technology, far inferior to incandescent and once the subsidies end, folks are going to be in sticker shock when they are paying $5 or $8 per bulb.

[heartwood]

You'd pretty much have to institutionalize me if I had to live with CFLs.

Or maybe I'd just get more of these babies.

220 Watts, all fluorescent, eat that, eco-guilters.