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Philips210 · 21st Nov 2017, 10:36 am

I agree that LED lighting has come on leaps and bounds in the last couple of years. The colour rendition is particularly good now. It doesn't seem that long ago when the standard replacement for GLS filament lamps was the CFL. These seem to have disappeared out of existence and I've not seen any for sale anywhere. I never liked CFLs anyway, I always thought the colour rendition felt unnatural. It was probably the great advances in LED technology and the fact that CFLs contain mercury that helped to kill them off. CFLs must be the shortest lived lighting technology.

Regards
Symon

21st Nov 2017, 10:36 am	#46
Philips210 Nonode Join Date: May 2007 Location: Redruth, Cornwall, UK. Posts: 2,573	Re: Workshop: LED replacements for flourescent tubes. I agree that LED lighting has come on leaps and bounds in the last couple of years. The colour rendition is particularly good now. It doesn't seem that long ago when the standard replacement for GLS filament lamps was the CFL. These seem to have disappeared out of existence and I've not seen any for sale anywhere. I never liked CFLs anyway, I always thought the colour rendition felt unnatural. It was probably the great advances in LED technology and the fact that CFLs contain mercury that helped to kill them off. CFLs must be the shortest lived lighting technology. Regards Symon