What is the best compact fluorescent bulb brand that gives off the same light as an incandescent bulb?”
The “color temperature” is a way of indicating how warm or cool a light bulb’s light is. Higher temps means a bluer light. Incandescent light bulbs have a color temperature of 2800 degrees K (for Kelvin, if you care.) Average daylight has a color temperature of 5500 degrees. So daylight is bluer than light from incandescent bulbs. (If you are interested in why that is, you can look up “black body radiation.”) (Often people are startled when they buy “daylight” bulbs and expect a warm yellow light, and what they get is white or slightly bluish. They think they like daylight, but in lamps and indoors, people expect that yellow light.) Compact fluorescent bulbs come in all sorts of color temperatures, as well as wattages . If you are lucky, you will see the bulb’s color temperature listed on the web page or package. You want something about 2800 degrees. (Which particular manufacturer you use doesn’t matter.)
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