[Shop-talk] Fluorescent lights (I need help here)

[eric at megageek.com]

Steven writes...

>New fluorescent tubes require a "break in" period to achieve full 
>brightness.  Did you leave them on for a while before you judged them 
>inadequate?

I never heard this.  How long are we talking?

Eric P
"Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational 
being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory." Ralph 
Waldo Emerson