No sweat Shake. I'm just picky about evidence. So much on here is heresay and people preach things they aren't sure about, or have no evidence to support. I'm just doing my duty of trying to push people to look further into things, and to find EVIDENCE to support claims.

In no way am I trying to refute what you are saying, nor am I saying you are wrong. I just think it was short sighted to link a study that I don't think was read through enough. Once the ambient temperature was thrown into the mix it became too many variables for me, along with running the cfl's in enclosed luminairies and whatever else they did.

I just want something simple that says if you mount it this way the ballast is more efficient, or less efficient thus resulting in less light. You know, something like that.

It may be certain models or whatever, but I would think that the components of CFL's from home depot or wherever are so similar that the install specs would be the same for all of them. I'm off to do some research now.