By: J. schmid "blueapples"

J. schmid "blueapples" — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 00:43:53 +0000

nothing is better for the price I’ve had these on set rigged up in a giant china ball, and the results are fantastic. the soft light (broken up by the china ball) is really pretty, and the color temperature is nearly perfect for mid-day sun. For the price, these cannot be beat. (these bulbs are ENORMOUS and will NOT fit into most normal household lamps – the screw is the same size but the bulb housing and coil are absolutely HUGE, so just be prepared for that)

By: person4321

person4321 — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 00:24:10 +0000

Huge in size, not in actual wattage Wow, these bulbs do look bigger in person. Only right for fixtures that are wide-open with plenty of space in all directions!I purchased these for use with a “Photo Basics 413 4-Socket Adapter” and a photography umbrella lamp fixture, and everything is working perfect. The diameter of these is large enough that they barely fit, given angle of the four sockets; their bases are all touching each other, but this doesn’t seem to cause any problems (the bases don’t get really hot on the outside).These are hands down the best CFLs I’ve ever owned. I am very impressed that these are 100% silent at all times. And the light output quality is very good. They do have a short warmup period, but it is barely noticeable in terms of brightness.According to my Kill-a-Watt (which is very accurate), these actually consume in the range of 60-73 Watts. I watched the power consumption starting cold and through the entire warmup until it completely stabilized (at a room temperature of 65 degrees Fahrenheit). They started at about 60W (each), gradually rose to 73W, then gradually fell back down to 68W where they remained (at least for several minutes…I didn’t leave them on for hours to come back and see where they were when fully hot). So I’m guessing that the 85W number is just a worst-case sandbagged figure, not the actual average power consumption that you should expect.I’m not sure how that compares to other brands of high-output CFLs. If there is another bulb which actually consumes 85W and is equally efficient, it would probably be even brighter than these. But anyone serious about light bulbs already knows that the lumen rating is the only one you should be looking at if you care about brightness. The Wattage rating is useful only to double-check that your lamp and circuit will be able to handle this much power (which very likely they can).

By: Diknak

Diknak — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 00:05:15 +0000

Wow, these are huge! I knew that they were going to be big, but I never imagined that they were going to be this big. I bought them for studio lighting but there is no way they are going to fit in any kind of household light fixture. They are very very bright and do the job perfectly.

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