Well said, Jonas Pilot.
We have had cfl bulbs for a few years, and have found that the multi-wattage (3 way) just haven't worked that well. Single wattage just take a little getting used to with the "warm up" aspects. We do have outside CFL's in a motion detector fixture on our garage. Again, a warm up feature, but it does throw enough light to see where you are going even early on. Just can't read the newspaper for a few minutes
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Care of bulbs is not any different than the regular flourescent bulbs we have in our house. We exercise extra care to ensure we do not break them.