Cheap GE Lighting 47479 Energy Smart CFL 26-Watt (100-watt replacement)

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Like others have said, these do take a little while to warm up. However, even immediately after being turned on, they provide a lot more light than the TCP 14019 1R4019-27K 19W R40 2700K Flood Screw Base Compact Fluorescent Light Bulb that these replaced and warm up a lot quicker. They've also outlasted all of the TCP bulbs. They're also painfully bright once they warm up fully they're supposed to be 90 watt equivalent, but they seem to be a bit brighter than the 90 watt incandescents in the next room, and they're far brighter than the cheap bulbs we had in this room before.

There's no "great" CFL flood on the market right now they all take their time warming up, I'm assuming due to the fact that these are designed to handle the heat of being in recessed lights.

I did find them on sale locally for a bit cheaper than anyone online is selling them for, so that helped.

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I've purchased these lights from a local retail outlet and replaced my regular outdoor incadescent floodlights with them. They do burn very brightly-just as brightly as the incadescent bulbs-but take a very long time to warm up, especially in the winter (NJ). I would never let this discourage purchasing and using these bulbs, but if you think indoor bulbs take a while, prepare yourself!

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GE needs to go back to the drawing board on this. Unless you remember to turn on the light 10 minutes before you will need it, it won't work. Once fully warmed up, it is plenty bright, and if it were suitable for outdoor use, would be fine for an outdoor light on a timer. But indoors in a room no, unless it is on all the time. I replaced mine with the high wattage floodlight that I had removed, and hope within a year there will be a quicker-starting alternative.

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before we found these bulbs we were changing bulbs in are recess lighting every 3 months after we change to this bulb about 2 years ago we have not change one since then.

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This is a very bright CFL flood bulb. It keeps my kitchen lit very well. It sticks out a little from the recessed socket where the bulb fits in and my wife thinks it makes it look a little bit ugly. It is certainly larger than the smaller wattage bulbs. Immediate on (low light) that brightens up to very bright. Overall, I am satisfied.