I love it! It's one of the most interesting compact fluorescent bulbs I've ever seen. I love flourescent lighting, in all forms! There's something fascinating to me about them. 😊

I believe most of us have experienced the light of CCFL bulbs without consiously acknowledging it. Why do I say this? Because the majority of LCD computer monitors on the market from the early 2000s all the way up to around 2010 used CCFL backlighting. The startup characteristics I know all too well, because my Dell monitor takes several minutes to reach peak brightness.

@JordanU

Жыл бұрын

This is true.

This is actually very helpful for me- I was really wishing there were CFLs that weren't affected by the on/off cycling. I completely agree with your assertions that these bulbs can definitely compare to incandescent ones in terms of the quality of light. Thanks for all the good information; now, I've got to go and find some of these to buy!

@JordanU

2 жыл бұрын

Supposedly these are not affected by the power cycling, but once they get towards the end of their life, they clearly have a better time operating continuously than starting up.

@eduardoveytia244

7 ай бұрын

​@@JordanUcuánto tiempo pueden durar esos??

The pinky purple color is caused by the neon-Aragon gas to help the bulb start

@stevethefanman8955

2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting.. useful information indeed , I'm learning a lot more on this channel.

@JordanU

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for letting me know.

Wow. Cool bulb. This is a very big CCFL bulb. I made a video about a CCFL bulb that was 5W snd was standard. But this bulb is pretty cool. Never seen such a big spiral. 😀

@JordanU

2 жыл бұрын

I've seen larger flood light ones, but this is definitely the largest one I've seen in this for factor.

@photonik-luminescence

2 жыл бұрын

@@JordanU Flood light? How where the tubes aranged? Like spiral or streight ?

@JordanU

Жыл бұрын

@@photonik-luminescence The tube was arranged in somewhat of a grill pattern, apparently I never did a video of it. I will have to revisit it sometime.

@photonik-luminescence

Жыл бұрын

@@JordanU cool ! Also i checked your chanel. You diserve my sub ! Great chanel !

@rs12official

Жыл бұрын

@@JordanU A floodlight CCFL? That’s gotta be rare!

Very interesting ! Never seen a light bulb like this , particularly one that took nearly 10 minutes to start up . Its neat looking , and it serves it's purpose . I enjoyed the video of the fluorescent light bulb.

@JordanU

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it.

@liam3284

Жыл бұрын

Had some "encased (outer bulb)" CFLs that were like this. They lasted much longer than normal CFLs.

This is perfect for the bathroom fixture because it’s slow startup eases the eyes when adjusting to the darkness at night

@JordanU

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed.

I have some TCP cold cathode lamps in a smaller size, 2500K I believe, that I purchased from a salvage retailer. The color is quite good. Cracker Barrel restaurants used to have these 2500K cold cathode bulbs in their hurricane lamp chandeliers in their dining rooms and retail shops because they mimic a dimmed incandescent.

@JordanU

2 жыл бұрын

I'm quite content with the quality of light these output for the power drawn. They seem quite close to incandescent.

Very interesting bulb. Watching it warm up, resembles some of the low mercury content 8 footers we had in our pole barn about 10 or 15 years ago, it seems they were the T12 because the fixtures were from 1968 or '69 when Grandpa built the barn, and I'm pretty sure the old magnetic ballasts will only run the T12 without causing issues. Anyway the low mercury tubes had the green end caps, would start bright at the ends, then gradually grow towards the center until the tube was fully lit. It took like 5 or 10 minutes, like the old mercury vapor yard lights. The old westinghouse black end cap tubes that we had to replace came on bright instantly, and they were probably the ones installed when the barn was built. Those lasted a very long life. I love fluorescent lights.

@JordanU

2 жыл бұрын

I like fluorescent in a lot of applications as well. It's disappointing to watch them all disappear in favor of cheap LED fixtures that won't last anywhere near as long.

@eduardoveytia244

7 ай бұрын

​@@JordanUyo también prefiero los FLUORESCENTES

@1marcelfilms

6 ай бұрын

I got a t8 in a t12 fixture. 36w vs 40w cant be that bad. real quality ballast made in DDR

@fp4man542

5 ай бұрын

@@JordanU I've just had a very old IKEA CFL bulb (made by Megaman), fail after approximately 32,000 hours of use. I can't see a modern LED bulb lasting that long.

That is weird yet cool looking light bulb right there!

@JordanU

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed

They are good in reading, bedside lamps, when you don't want full light right away. Hard to find these now.

@JordanU

Жыл бұрын

I like them for the bathroom at night.

This was very interesting for me to see, here in the UK these were never available to buy. I’d definitely have bought one if they were.

@JordanU

2 ай бұрын

They were only available here for a very short period of time, they never caught on for whatever reason.

That was an interesting video. I don't think that we ever had ccfl lamps for sale in the UK.

@JordanU

5 ай бұрын

They might not have been, or they were only sold for a very short period of time, as was the case here. They were never widely liked or used.

@fp4man542

5 ай бұрын

@@JordanU I searched for ccfl lamps on eBay (UK), and found just one seller. They were 4w with a GU10 base. I've ordered two of them, just to see what they are like.

If you could place an iron rod straight down the middle of the coil of tubing would you have a magnet? What's the difference between a coil of copper and a coil of plasma transmitting electricity? It should be a magent unless i'm missing something ?

@JordanU

5 ай бұрын

I wouldn't think so, but I'm not certain.

@rickybosephus2036

5 ай бұрын

@@JordanU Plasma conducts current, so plasma should be equal to a coppper wire i would think? Therefore, a coil of plasma shoudl be equal to a coil of copper wire? if not why not?

That stuff running through the tube at start up are called striations.

@JordanU

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for letting me know.

I have never been able to see a fluorescent light flicker. A lot of people say they do, but I have never seen it. I use all Magnetic ballast T12 fixtures in my house, shed and workshop and I have never seen one flicker at all no matter how I look at it. Only time I have ever seen one flicker is when a lamp is failing. I have however seen a lot of LED lights flickering under "normal operation" but people seem to think that they do not flicker.

@JordanU

2 жыл бұрын

I can see the flicker in some T12 fixtures, though I am not anywhere near as bothered by it as I am the LED bulbs. The LED bulbs have a harshness to them that the fluorescent doesn't.

@rs12official

Жыл бұрын

I can sometimes make out a little flicker, especially with daylight lamps, but most of the time I don’t notice and/or it doesn’t bother me.

Looks funny, nice one!

@JordanU

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@ollieollie4496

Жыл бұрын

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@ollieollie4496

Жыл бұрын

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These bulbs warm up much like low pressure sodium and high pressure sodium bulbs.

@JordanU

2 жыл бұрын

It does take about as long as the high pressure sodium bulbs.

@eduardoveytia244

7 ай бұрын

Yo tengo unas que en 2 minutos ya están al brillo maximo

I think it would of been good for streetlights, it would of been better than mercury vapour lamps atleast, maybe...?

@JordanU

2 жыл бұрын

I believe the efficiency of mercury vapor is much higher than this.

I like it

@JordanU

2 жыл бұрын

OK

Do you have a website I can buy lightbulbs from you ?

@JordanU

2 жыл бұрын

I am not a store, nothing here is for sale.

@sergiesnipe616

2 жыл бұрын

@@JordanU oh ok

this was used as lcd backlight before led

@JordanU

2 ай бұрын

Correct.

Is that a T1?

@JordanU

2 жыл бұрын

I don't know what that is.

@achannelwithaprofilepictur6253

Жыл бұрын

@@JordanU A unit of measurement for CFL tube thickness.

@JordanU

Жыл бұрын

@@achannelwithaprofilepictur6253 O, I get it now. That's actually pretty funny.

ASMR CCFL Startup.

@JordanU

2 жыл бұрын

What is that?

Its like a Deluxe MV lamp 😅

@JordanU

Ай бұрын

What does it have to do with mercury vapor?

I am terrified of the fluorescent lamp because it turns green in the dark turned off inside the bedroom and the impression that it moves by itself

@JordanU

2 жыл бұрын

I've never encountered that.

@rs12official

Жыл бұрын

I sure have not seen a “moving” fluorescent light, but I have seen fluorescent afterglow before. When I was very young, there was a CFL in my bedroom ceiling fan that had a blue afterglow, and it terrified me! That CFL burned out a long time ago and it along with the other two bulbs in the fan were replaced with CFLs that had a much dimmer afterglow that didn’t scare me as much. Now I know what fluorescent afterglow is and am no longer sacred. Our T8 fluorescent garage lights have a blue afterglow, I think it is pretty cool!

@eduardoveytia244

7 ай бұрын

Solo lo e visto en fluorescentes T8 y más delgado pero no en los T12

This CCFL Bulb can Dimmable ,My Taiwan made CCFL is not dimmable😢, I like dimmable CCFL lighting. ^^

@JordanU

10 ай бұрын

OK

Dónde puedo comprar esos ???

@JordanU

Ай бұрын

Goodwill

Probably mid 2000s probably 90s just judging the design by the 2010s they aren’t as popular

@JordanU

2 жыл бұрын

I suspect this is probably a product of the early 2000s, no later.

These (and regular CFL lights) are better than the LED garbage you can get today. People cannot get over the fact of waiting for them to warm up, that is one of the most common complaints about any CFL i have heard. A lot of people don't even like waiting for the one second that some take to turn on at all. It does not really bother me in most cases though.

@JordanU

2 жыл бұрын

I agree. People cannot wait for anything anymore.

@eduardoveytia244

7 ай бұрын

Se me hace algo curioso con los FLUORESCENTES delgados en comparación con los gruesos En mi cuarto uso tubos fluorescentes lineales e notado que los tubos delgados T8 tardan un rato en llegar al brillo maximo pero en T12 brillan al maximo al momento

@WalterKnox

7 ай бұрын

@@eduardoveytia244 if you are on a video where the language being spoken is English and you do not speak English, it should be your obligation to translate what you are saying, not mine.

@eduardoveytia244

7 ай бұрын

​@@WalterKnoxsiempre lo traduzco siempre

@WalterKnox

7 ай бұрын

@@eduardoveytia244 I don’t know nor do I care what that says. I am not going through effort to translate whatever nonsense you are saying.

Spaghettified cfl

@JordanU

Ай бұрын

OK

The majority of LED bulbs currently on the market are obscenely cheap, built-to-a-cost devices that really don't do the LED technology any justice at all. When designed and engineered correctly with sufficent quality, they can be very decent lights. The problem is that the majority just aren't built good enough. That's something of a trend I've seen in the past several years with new technologies emerging on the market- the concept looks very good on paper, but in reality, after the manufacturing and economics constraints, it ends up less appealing.

@JordanU

Жыл бұрын

I agree. I do not have an intrinsic opposition to LED lighting. I have an opposition to poor quality, inferior lighting, which unfortunately is the overwhelming majority of LED fixtures for sale in this country.

@liam3284

Жыл бұрын

I really like high-CRI LED, yet everything sold seems to be awful. Flicker much worse than a CFL, Have large plastic diffuser that don't fit, and very poor colour rendition (reminds me of the old halophosphate "cool white" tubes).

looks like a hornet nest

@JordanU

Ай бұрын

I do not like hornets one bit.

Wow the tube on that light bulb so thin it SUSSY

@JordanU

2 жыл бұрын

That doesn't make sense.

@ollieollie4496

Жыл бұрын

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