Light bulbs...(nothing to do with fishing whatsoever)

[Mr. Sandman]

Not yet but I can imagine if the blub is right next to a wireless device it might cause a problem. I found my cell phone produces interference...put your cell phone next to your FM radio and listen to the noise it makes.

The amount of UV radiation produced by FL lighting is so small it is not funny. I read a report a week ago that showed if you stayed in an office lit only by flour. lighting (and plenty of it) for all day (8 hours) the amount of radiation (UV) you would recieve is equal to 1 minute of being in the daylight in July. I think the ballast might produce some interfereence though with other electomagnetic and IR devices but it would have to be close I would think. It is not a big deal as far as I can tell.

[Flaptail]

If you are an N-Star customer they continually have lighting rebate programs going on for small and large business's. Small business solutions is the one ongoi9ng right now where they will have a vendor come into your facility and change out all the old ballasts and lamps and update then to electronic ballasted and t-5 lamps in Fluorecent tube fixtures and replace all incandescent with compact fluorescent biaxial lamps tt's or quads. Good deal and the payback is realized quickly.

[Redsoxticket]

law of conservation of energy staes ====> energy cannot be created or destroyed; it can only be converted from one form to another.

Example:
Give a incadesent light bulb and uv light rated at 100 watts. The incadesent bulb uses the energy for both heat (hot bulb) and light. The UV light uses less heat with most of the energy for visible light. That is why the UV is more efficient. The incadesent (regular bilbs) may be good in the winter because it heats up the air a little.
Just for the record I also have a electrical engineering background

[UserRemoved1]

IC light heat is a by broduct of the filament heating up from the energy being given off. Anytime you have heat driven from electricity it is waste. CFL saves money on electricity because it's a more efficient technology and doesn't produce the heat by-product. Major drawback to cfl....every bulb contains mercury to light the bulb off so they are considered hazardous waste.

[Mr. Sandman]

I had these 3 "problem fixtures" in the kitchen that I could not replace the bulbs in. They had a several 60 watt IC bulbs closed in a SS and glass fixture. It would get hot as hell, even with a 60 watt. You could not touch the fixture near the bulb encasement it was so hot. I took the glass off and let the bulb be exposed so I didn't have a melt down. But this is what it was designed for. It is a brand new fixture and my wife really likes it. ActuallI like it too except for the heat)Since it is on most of the time I was sniffing around to find a some kind of CFL that would fit. Most of the curly bulbs did not fit and the ones that did were not dimmable. (all were on dimmers).

Check this out... A bulb slightly smaller then a 60 watt IC, that produces the same number of lumens as a 50 watt IC and uses only 5 watts of energy. It is dimmable too 0-100%. Cold Cathode technology. Oh 25,000 life too. I replaced them all and closed up the fixture...it is room temp now even after the fixture is on for several hours. These are pretty new and new models are expected shortly, I hope they come out with a 75 watt replacements as they are not quite as bright as the IC's but they are pretty close. Also the color is perfect, they look exactly like a IC that was in there. Below is a clear one but they come frosted too. Since it was behind a frosted glass shade so I got the clear ones.

[Mr. Sandman]

Most of the lights install now...so far the results look pretty good! The lowest monthly KWH usage ever for me last month. The red in the graph below indicates usage in 06, the black 05. I have been phasing in in 06.