Although LED lighting is the most popular and one of the most efficient lighting options right now, our team still faces a lot of questions on fluorescent lighting. Aletheia Cyr, our training and development specialist, helps walk through some of the most common questions we receive on fluorescent lighting.
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Answering your fluorescent lighting questions [Ask the expert series]
Topics: LED, Ballast, Fluorescent light, Light bulb part numbers, CFL
How to read a light bulb part number: compact fluorescent bulbs (CFLs)
Lighting manufacturers speak different dialects of the same language: part numbers. The point of our part number series is to help you to better understand what all of those characters on your light bulb mean, so you can accurately and easily order replacement products.
Understanding part numbers
Topics: Lighting 101, Fluorescent light, CFL
Compact fluorescent lamps (CFL bulbs) first emerged on the lighting market as a more energy-efficient alternative to the incandescent light bulb.
Manufacturers had already started producing linear fluorescents, but the linear tubes did not fit into the same socket as incandescent light bulbs.
Topics: Lighting 101, Lighting technology, Fluorescent light, CFL