Sorry, its not nonsense, its absolutely true.
I have CFL’s and I use them, and they don’t instant on at full light, sorry. If you believe they do, I think a trip to the optomitrist might be in order.
I have 2 “100 watt equivalents” in one room, and 2 in hallways, and 2 on my front porch, EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM, when turned on and hasn’t been on in a while start out MAYBE giving off the light equivalent of a 25 watt bulb at best, this lasts for about 15-30 seconds when they finally ramp up to full output.
No BS about it my friend, its fact. CFL’s are not “INSTANT ON AT FULL LUMINENCE”.
All CFL’s have a WARM UP CURVE, ALL OF THEM...
Slow warm-up behavior is caused by the mercury amalgam used to control mercury vapor pressure is most modern CFLs.
You can deny all you want, but physics are physics my friend, and facts are facts. NON compact florescent use a different method and start at 50% output and rapidly rise to 100%... CFL’s by and large do not.
“CFL’s are not “INSTANT ON AT FULL LUMINENCE”.”
I am well aware of that slight hesitation but you repeatedly hammered the 15-30 seconds for some odd reason in post after post.
If you are having to deal with an up to 30 second wait for your lights to look normal, then I don’t know what to tell you, if I was having that problem I would not have CFLs in all my fixtures.
This is true - I have several CF bulbs myself, notably in 7 ceiling fixtures in the basement, a couple of outdoor lights, and in various lamps. They are on within 2 seconds (unless voltage is low at which time they come on slower). But, they are NOT to full brilliance for a good half minute or so. It's as if they start at 50% output and then slowly rise to 100% over many seconds.
Not a problem in the situations in which I use them, but I won't put them in the bathroom or other areas where I have specific decorative needs for standard light bulbs. They certainly have their place, and there's no reason to avoid using them in those places.