Office Lighting

[Andara Bledin]

So, the bosslady had all of the light fixtures in the building replaced with new, less power-hungry fixtures and bulbs. The resulting light is far more blue and less yellow than the previous and people are all sorts of whiny about it.

We're using half the bulbs in the long tube fixtures, and the same number in the u-bend tube fixtures.

Some people are determined to hate them. I, personally, find that they have a far more natural color to them than the yellow-ish office fluorescents we had in before. So while they whine and cry about them, I'm trying to find out the color temperature to figure out if they're actually better or worse than the crap we had in here before.

It'll be interesting to learn what range we're now using. If it's nice and high, I'm going to do what I can to educate my fellow co-irkers, but I doubt they'll bother to listen. They'd much rather whine about stupid stuff than actually be right.

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[poisoned_flowers]

I am by no means defending your whiny co-irkers, but I personally see better and with less eye-strain in the yellower florescents than the newer blues, so I might have had a small complaint. But yeah, sounds like they're just b!tching to hear themselves.

[telecom_goddess]

I personally hate florescent lights with a goddamn passion, especially the blue ones. They flicker and give me headaches. I have most of them above my cube at work turned off.

[Andara Bledin]

None of our new lights flicker.

The old ones used to, but that's probably because the ballasts were something along the lines of being 30 years old.

With the new lamps, we also put in new ballasts.

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