Hello everybody today I'm gonna share with you these
Feit Electric 60 watt equivalent CFL black light bulbs now these things are pretty unique
they've been around for quite a long time now and I guess I never really got around to making a video of them because I've
Had these for quite a long time now
This one here that is missing its package is a lot older than these other two here
These probably were bought around
2012 and this one probably whenever they first came out and you'll notice when I compare the two this one has a much thicker
a
Diameter glass than these newer ones here, but they both provide the same exact effect. There's no difference
So anyway here on the front of the bulb we can see it's 13 watts black light blue
And we obviously have the black light
Fluorescent tube itself there at the top at least two are the exact same thing. All these bulbs are used at Halloween
So I'm going through a box of things and they were in there, of course
anyway
You have basic information here of where you can use the black light bulb you can see the information is a little bit different
13 watt
8,000 hours one bulb it replaced 60 watt black light bulb if you're wondering if these fluorescent or CFL versions are any better than the incandescent
Versions they are they're way better than the incandescent versions. And if you find a black light LED bulb, it's the same
they're just as good as the fluorescent ones, but I still prefer the fluorescent over the
LED but the LED does an amazing amazing job, so
Anyway, we'll go ahead and take this one out. We have something to prepare
here
So here's the newer style use the older style. Another thing that you'll notice is that
the coating is a lot thicker on the older one than the newer one and you can see that they're also the diameter of
The glass is ever so slightly thinner
The newer one than the older one, of course the labeling is different as well
This one says 13 t has a lot more stuff in front of it too. This one just as 15 T
so that's probably has something to do with the
Some type of the tube that they used is my guess
So just some basic information on the bulbs themselves put the new one aside and we'll start with the
older one here
One screwing these things in I just want to say don't tighten them from the glass
Tighten them from the base that prevents the tube from separating from the ballast compartment. So anyway,
Turn it on and um, you'll notice some striations there. That is just the bulb warming up
You see it's a little brighter here than here
And eventually it'll warm up and be just as bright as you'd expect it to be just take a little bit of time
So obviously you can see the packaging glowing here under the blacklight
You can have other things that glow such as this globe here, and of course
grab it
The Apple logo on the iBook glows as well
So obviously it's not glowing very bright
But as you can see this thing is slowly warming up
So we'll turn that off and let me go ahead and switch it over to the newer version here
This one turns on a lot faster
To full brightness as you can see, they probably increased the mercury content in the newer ones
like this than the older ones here, but I still prefer the older it's not as
Physically bright but it produces the same amount of UV to make the blacklight effect happen as the newer one does
So very nice black light
bulbs
Obviously everything glows under it that you would expect from a traditional tubular fluorescent backlight as well as
I've said many times these things worked much better than their incandescent counterparts
So anyway, I really do hope you enjoyed this quick little review of the Feit electric spiral shaped
CFL black light bulbs. Also, please comment rate subscribe and thank you very much for watching