Brent Geery wrote in
:

And, they don't mind
being cycled frequently like their hot cathode fluorescent
cousins.


Hmm...In my grandmother's kitchen was a dual Circline, hot-cathode,
fluorescent light with a real starter on each tube. As far back as I could
remember, I always loved to see it start flashing as the tubes heated up on
the starters kicking in. When Grandma finally got old enough to move out
of the house and into assisted living, some 50 years later, those same two
tubes were flashing on the same starter many times a day as people came and
went in the kitchen. Thank you, GE, for producing such a fine product,
sometime way back near World War II. There was a GE circle on the chrome
plating in the middle of it.

--
Larry

You know you've had a rough night when you wake up and your outlined in
chalk.