Doug,

The ccf light from Fry's is really a good deal. Can you please take
picture of the inverter? Do you a mean of measuring the current it
consume on the 12V side? My experience of some automotive fluorescent
light claims to be energy efficient while in fact performs worst than
incandescent light due to poor ballast.

I have the Artimede eLight which is also CCF. It has two CCF tubes about
10" long and they rate it 6W.
http://www.contemporarylighting.com/artemide/elight.asp

If this performs well I will consider putting it inside the Westy galley
light fixture.

- Vince

http://gipsyflies.home.comcast.net
1989 Vanagon GL Camper
1993 Mazda Miata
1996 Land Rover Discovery
2005 Mini Cooper S (almost here)

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of Doug in Calif
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 9:16 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Interior lighting for the vanagon LED and CCF

Tim,
Perhaps in the early 90s that may be true.

Just bought a set of two 12 inch CCFLs today complete with the inverter
for 14.95 You can buy them online for $9.99 (see my link below)

Tested them in the garage this evening, very nice white light as nice in
fact brighter than standard dc flourescents.

Very low draw.  claims 5 milliamps.  I believe these are the best light
technology for the lowest draw on the battery you can buy anywhere
today.

http://shop4.outpost.com/product/3813657#detailed

Doug

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Schneider" <Tim.Schneider@SYNOPSYS.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 8:48 PM
Subject: Re: Interior lighting for the vanagon LED and CCF

> >I have been doing some lighting research and found out the LED
> >technology only produces about 23 lumens per watt. Where the CCF
> >produces in the 80 lumens per watt range.
>
>  From what I recall.. we used some of these as backlights in 'glass'
> cockpit avionics in the early 1990's (used to work for Honeywell /
> Sperry Flight Systems)
>
> Expensive though..
>
>   -tim
>
> 90 syncro westy
> mesa, az