Quote Originally Posted by Balkey
The study was not trying to prove anything except that consumers are MISLED by what the packaging says. PERIOD.

How is the study suppose to observe a incandescent bulb for 10,000 hours?? The avg. life of an incandescent is about 1000 hours. All it's saying is the cfl bulbs loses on avg. 22% of its brightness during its lifetime, which isn't stated on its packaging. In comparison, an incandescent bulb loses LESS brightness during its' LIFETIME.

No one has stated that incandescent bulbs are better, just that the packaging is misleading.

FYI, if you can, HID trump all.
that's pretty much the way I read it, too ... I only posted it, because it caught my eye, thought someone messing with CFLs would be interested ... I've never used a CFL for growing, I went from (lots of) 48" fluorescent tubes, directly to HPS ... :smokin: