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Originally Posted by erick
I just wish they would work as a light bulb should! I had to replace a bedroom ceiling incandescent light with a compact fluoro - one of these large round bulbs. I bought another one to check the first wasn't faulty. It takes the best part of five minutes to come to full brightness and is decidedly very dim for the first couple of minutes. What use is a bedroom light bulb if you have to turn it on five minutes before you need to use it???? 
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Yeah I've noticed that too. Have one in my bedroom and in the kitchen and the moment you flick them on, the bloody things are as feeble as the sunlight on Pluto! They need to "warm up" apparently.