Unplug the fixture or turn off the power at the main panel. Remove the diffuser (cover), then carefully remove the ...

In December 2022, the President Joe Biden's administration proposed a new rule that, if enacted, would nearly triple the current minimum light bulb efficiency level of 45 lumens per watt to over 120 ...

Q: The kitchen of my 1987 house has fluorescent tubes in the ceiling, which is dropped down 5½ inches so acrylic panels covering the lights look like part of the ceiling. I hate the quality of the ...

Fluorescent lights in home or business lighting use are slowly going the way of the dinosaur. They're being replaced by LEDs, which tend to be a lot cleaner for the environment, last longer, and use ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Even though the transition to LED lighting is well under way, there are lots of TV stations that ...

Phosphors are essential to fluorescent lighting, and thus office parks the world over, but their use of rare-earth elements makes them less than ideal. To address that issue, new types of phosphors ...

In a common kind of fluorescent tube, a high voltage tears some electrons away from mercury vapor atoms—it's a brief pulse, so that mostly certain electrons and their band of transition energies are ...

Hawaii has joined nine states in banning the sale of fluorescent light bulbs. The legislation took full effect Jan. 1, 2026, under the Hawaii Clean Lighting Standards Act, which passed in 2023. The ...

This is going to be anathema to many people out there, but we have a lot of wiring that goes near, and in many cases, directly across fluorescent lights (long story how it came about). Some goes to a ...

Vermont stores will be prohibited from selling all types of general use fluorescent lights starting in the new year. A 2022 law banning the sale of 4-foot linear fluorescent bulbs goes into effect on ...