Can you buy compact flourescent lights for ceiling can lighting.?
I have can ceiling lights with flood lights. Does anyone make compact flourescent flood lights for can lighting.
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Osram, Nelson, and Sylvania (and others) do reflector and par38 globes in compact fluorescent. You should be able to pick them up from your local lighting store, or at least order them in.
In relation to color, there are various degrees (color temperature measured in Kelvins) compact fluoros are available in, most commonly being- 2700K warm white- closest to incandescent, 4000K cool white, and 5000K daylight- closest to natural daylight. The daylight color tends to be a little blue, so I recommend cool white for a clean crisp white light.
There is really no such thing as a fluorescent flood light, although there are some that can send out a bright light, for sure. However, new configuration of fluorescent light fixtures are being created all the time and the price is coming way down, so I don’t suppose I should be too definitive about that.Use at least "75-watt equivalent" fluorescents, at least, or you will be disappointed.
I replaced all of my ceiling can incandescents, floods, and halogens with standard socket fluorescent and have been saving a ton of money over the last 10 years. I highly recommend it. You may have some problem finding compatible fluorescent with some non-standard socket types, but a good lamp store should stock them all.
One problem with fluorescent is that they cannot be used with dimmers or variable wattage light switches. I bought some that claimed to be compatible with dimmers and they lasted about a year before they burned out. The tiny ballasts used for screw-in fluorescent just can’t handle it. So, if your can lights are in some way controlled by a dimmer switch, don’t use fluorescent.
Another problem is that fluorescent light is different from incandescent light and halogen light. Some people think it is too "blue" and "cold". My wife doesn’t like it. She also hates that the fixtures are "all squiggly". When she learned how much money we were saving on energy bills, however, she became less critical
I never put the compact flourescents in anything that spins or moves…one day i heard that someone put it in the light for their mill in the shop and the way the light works is it blinks really fast at one set speed so when the mill was set to spin at the right speed/RPM the whole thing looked like it wasnt even turned on……extremely dangerous.
same with a fan
try some fan bulbs…they are made to last longer in the moving housing and are not a flood type shape…they are round and clear
I have bought flourescent flood lights from Lowes, but they are the large outdoor style. You’d have to check for room in your fixtures.