CFLs take some time to reach full brightness in my experience,as much as five minutes.I use CFLs in places where I need light all the time for safety but prefer incandescents for everything else.The blue glass incandescents make more natural appearing light,and are best for reading or tasks.Cheap LED lighting can be found the next few weeks disguised as Christmas decorations on clearance.I find a 70 or 90 bulb string of white LEDs costing $5 makes a good pathway or hallway light.I intend to try poking the bulbs through a piece of perfboard(pegboard) for a cabin light.
Keep your eyes open for special pricing and stock up on incandescents .
Again,thanks to G.W.Bush's inability to use a veto pen we have more un-needed change forced on us.I wonder if the price of Democratic support for the WOT was mothballing the veto?
I don’t have trouble with the CFL bulbs.
But I find the LED lights that are used for Christmas decorations kind of give me a headache because they “flash” at 60hz.
The LED lights being sold for lighting are filtered better, but are more expensive.
The government should have just thrown a tax on incandescents, so those of us who WANTED them could still buy them, and the government could collect money to pay for the free CFL distributions they will want to do for poor people.