I have noticed the bases of CFB getting very hot, scary hot. I have used a few of these bulbs. They didn’t last all that long, they took some time to reach full brightness when flip switch, and they dont work very well in cold locations such as porch lights (stay fairly dim). My problem is that I have reptiles that need heat producing bulbs i.e. incandescent type (heat lamps).
I have a 48” 2 tube shop type full spectrum fluor. light in office/bedroom. I light this light for reading. But it produces so much interference that I have to turn it off to talk on phone or log on to internet. For some reason, the light makes my phone line appear “busy” and can’t connect to dial-up service. And I can’t help but wonder if the Algore bunch doesn’t have stock in these CFB as well as Haz-mat, recycling companies. Get their bread buttered on both sides. And of course China keeps figuring in to everything, poisoned pet food, poison bulbs, what next?
Based on the imperfect nature of residential CF lights, we really need to follow the money.
Also the hysteria over CF ignores developing technologies in the form of LED’s.
They even sell retrofit bulb assemblies for expensive flashlights now.
I think the people howling like a banshee for CF lights have no concept of the free market’s ability to refine a product.