[geeks] Losers.

[Dave McGuire]

On March 26, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> Uhm, the incandescent bulbs flicker at 60Hz (in the US of A), just like
> the fluorescents.  I'm not sure why it's so much more noticable on the
> long fluorescent bulbs than on the CF, or the incandescents.  

  It takes incandescent filaments a lot longer to cool down enough to
drop their light output noticeably than it does for the output of the
phosphorescent material inside a fluorescent tube to decay, so the
"valleys" in the light output tend to be much deeper for fluorescent
bulbs.

       -Dave

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