What is the best light for me?

[kingranch2003]

You heard wrong.

https://www.auralight.com/en/discover-us/t8-and-t5-phase-out
https://www.aceee.org/blog-post/2023/08/five-more-states-are-phasing-out-fluorescent-bulbs

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

https://www.auralight.com/en/discover-us/t8-and-t5-phase-out
https://www.aceee.org/blog-post/2023/08/five-more-states-are-phasing-out-fluorescent-bulbs

https://inside.lighting/news/24-06/canada-fluorescent-light-bulb-ban-dates
Under "Exceptions":

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

https://www.auralight.com/en/discover-us/t8-and-t5-phase-out
https://www.aceee.org/blog-post/2023/08/five-more-states-are-phasing-out-fluorescent-bulbs

Your first article is from a business that sells bulbs and wants to sell their customers on the company's other products.

The second is addressed in the link I posted.

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

*I'm not telling anyone what type of lighting to use, but this particular monster under the bed is not actually an issue.

 

[oreo54]

https://inside.lighting/news/24-06/canada-fluorescent-light-bulb-ban-dates
Under "Exceptions":

Yea but there are a few catches here.
1) Most exemptions assume no viable economic and functional equivalent.
This group is shrinking.
2) States like CA exempt some that have a certain high percentage of blue.
Unfortunately it doesn't include like 6500k and possibly 10000k rated bulbs.

Wording of the specific exemption to the ban.

(5) A lamp used for coral zooxanthellae symbiosis from which the

radiation power emitted between 400 and 480 nanometers represents at least

40 percent of the total radiation power emitted between 250 and 800

nanometers.

https://pluralpolicy.com/app/legislative-tracking/bill/details/state-ca-20212022-ab2208/1033083

And the big one..
3) Up to manufacturers if they will produce these bulbs in an ever shrinking market.
doesn't matter if they are legal or not.

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

Yea but there are a few catches here.
1) Most exemptions assume no viable economic and functional equivalent.
This group is shrinking.
2) States like CA exempt some that have a certain high percentage of blue.
Unfortunately it doesn't include like 6500k and possibly 10000k rated bulbs.

Wording of the specific exemption to the ban.

https://pluralpolicy.com/app/legislative-tracking/bill/details/state-ca-20212022-ab2208/1033083

And the big one..
3) Up to manufacturers if they will produce these bulbs in an ever shrinking market.
doesn't matter if they are legal or not.

I don't disagree, but was trying to refute the blanket "T5s aren't being made anymore" rhetoric.

 

[kingranch2003]

Your first article is from a business that sells bulbs and wants to sell their customers on the company's other products.

The second is addressed in the link I posted.

If those don't work for you, there are plenty more out there. It's the fact I was presenting, not necessarily the article or it's writer.