My personal problem with CFL's is that they ruin my AM radio reception at home...especially long distance AM reception which is bad enough because I'm fighting old elevator motors in my building whose ground connections have probably rotten away (if they even existed in the first place).
Also, the light they give out gives me a headache - it's not enough and at the wrong frequencies.
I prefer those long fluorecent tubes I have at work. They give out a much brighter and even light output. Only problem is when there's a loose connection at the ballast and they start buzzing.
Last year I asked one of the building electricians at work if they could check out one of the lights in my stock room because it was buzzing like a chainsaw.
[This message has been edited by SvenNYC (edited 05-11-2003).]
