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Compact Fluorescent Lamp - Disadvantages - Starting Time
... CFLs turn on within a second, but many still take time to achieve full brightness ... with a CFL, are available where warm up time is unacceptable ...

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    “A veteran journalist ... has never had time to think twice before he writes.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    “He will be starting pretty late.
    He’ll find that Asiatic state
    Is about tired of being looted
    While having its beliefs disputed.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)