{"id":2880,"date":"2011-01-20T00:54:49","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T05:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/synergylightingusa.com\/?p=2880"},"modified":"2011-01-20T00:54:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T05:54:49","slug":"do-cfl-light-bulbs-cause-headaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrmuckle.com\/hansen\/2011\/01\/20\/do-cfl-light-bulbs-cause-headaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Do CFL Light Bulbs Cause Headaches?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the years we have often heard customers complain that fluorescent light bulbs cause them to suffer from headaches. But was it really the bulbs?\u00a0 Or, was it simply the slight flickering of older ballasts going bad causing brief subtleties in the eye that was causing headaches, or could it be more than that?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The magnetic ballast<\/a> for T12 uses coiled wire and creates magnetic fields to transform voltage, and in the United States operates at 60 Hz.\u00a0\u00a0 This means that for intensive purposes, the light bulbs<\/a> are actually being turned on an off 60 times per second.\u00a0 Surely some eyes would be bothered if the flickering became more noticeable.\u00a0\u00a0 So when our customers changed from magnetic ballasts to the new electronic ballasts that operates at over 20,000hz, many of these complaints of headaches went away.<\/p>\n

Scientists Claim CFL’s Pose A Health Risk<\/h2>\n

\"SYLVANIA<\/a>Lately, with the banning of incandescent<\/a> light bulbs, the compact fluorescent lamps (CFL’s)<\/a>\u00a0have grown exponentially as the common place light bulb of today.\u00a0 Operating with self contained electronic ballasts, we would initially believe that surely no one would suffer headaches from these energy saving light bulbs.\u00a0 However, scientists have recently started talking publicly about CFL’s and Dirty Energy and claims that CFL’s actually pose a health risk.\u00a0 We must wonder if health could really be affected by CFL’s and what about the lamps would cause this issue?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

What is Dirty Energy?<\/h2>\n

Dirty Energy is defined as any negative result from an energy product.\u00a0 This could be harmful gases created from coal burning, to ultra violet emissions to electromagnetic energy.\u00a0 \"CFL<\/a>Basically if the energy produced or any portion of the process to make the energy can be harmful to anyone or the environment than it would be considered dirty energy.\u00a0 So then we must ask, do CFL’s cause dirty energy?\u00a0\u00a0 16:9 a Canadian reporting television show leads us to believe that they do in a 2009 story that\u00a0never aired in the U.S.\u00a0\u00a0 Their research yields an interest to the ideal that CFL’s produce electromagnetic emissions that cause serious health risks and headaches.\u00a0 We know T12 linear fluorescent ballasts use and electromagnetic field to generate light from a fluorescent bulb<\/a>, so could that have been what was causing customers headaches at work?\u00a0 Is the energy saving created by CFL’s worth health problems?<\/p>\n

You be the judge!<\/h3>\n

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