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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #45024 in Home Improvement
• Color: Black
• Brand: Globe Electric
• Model: 37610
• Released on: 2006-09-15
• Dimensions: 5.98" h x 5.67" w x 5.98" l,

Features

• A 13W CFL is equivalent to a 60W regular incandescent bulb. It uses less energy, and helps protect the environment. Depending on your kWh rate, you will enjoy significant dollar savings per bulb!
• An excellent choice for parties, black light bulbs make white objects glow in the dark.
• Globe's Ultra Mini size fits most fixtures that require a standard medium base regular incandescent bulb.
• The lifespan of one Globe Enersaver® bulb is 8,000 - 10, 000 hours and will outlast 8-10 regular incandescent bulbs.
• Globe Enersaver® bulbs are warranted to last 5 years! If it fails before that time, we will replace it.

From the Manufacturer
Set a festive mood and light up your home with Globe Enersaver® party bulbs while saving in energy costs. With a growing concern for reducing energy consumption, Globe's line of compact fluorescent lighting is growing in popularity. With compact fluorescent light bulbs you can save money by switching from incandescent bulbs. CFLs use approximately 70% less energy than incandescent bulbs and produce the same light output. One CFL bulb lasts from 8,000 to 10,000 hours or up to 10 years and countless parties!

Amazon.com Buying Guide
Five Tips for Buying Compact Fluorescent Bulbs

Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs) are energy-saving replacements for incandescent light bulbs. Below you will find information to assist you in choosing the right bulb.

How do incandescent bulbs and CFLs compare?
Incandescent bulbs produce light by passing electricity through a small wire filament, heating it until it glows. Compact fluorescent lamps use an efficient chemical reaction to produce light, which requires 66%-75% less electricity to produce the same light output as a comparable incandescent bulb. CFLs are also cooler than incandescent bulbs and last considerably longer. CFLs are available in the familiar range of styles and colors to suit different applications, including standard round, candelabra, flood, track, three-way, dimmable, indoor, and outdoor.

What are the different base types of compact fluorescent bulbs?
CFLs are available in three base types: screw base, pin base, and GU24.

• Screw base bulbs, which have the familiar Edison screw socket, are the type used to replace existing incandescent bulbs. Simply swap out the old incandescent bulb for your new CFL and save significant energy costs. 
• Pin-base CFLs have small plastic bases with two or four pins and are designed to be used with separate ballasts mounted in fixtures designed for pin-base CFLs.
• The GU24 socket and base system is designed to replace the Edison socket and base in energy efficient lighting fixtures to match the newest ENERGY STAR requirements. Fixtures that use GU24 bulbs are designed to avoid backward compatibility with screw base bulbs, guaranteeing higher energy efficiency.

How long do the bulbs last?
CFLs can last 8,000 to 15,000 hours depending on quality while incandescent bulbs typically last 750 to 1,000 hours.

What types of lighting can I get with CFLs?
While many people are familiar with the bluish-white flicker of a hospital hallway illuminated by old-style 48-inch fluorescent bulbs, in fact a broad range of colors are available. The common colors range from a "soft white", to a medium white to a "daylight" color that has more blue and less yellow. Additionally, a range of novelty colors are available (red, black, green, etc.) including yellow, which is ideal for outdoor lighting as it does not attract insects. For indoor lighting of living spaces, choose a cooler temperature light, while for garages or work areas use the brighter and bluer daylight CFLs which cast a wider area of illumination. If you are using a dimmable fixture, you will need to purchase a CFL specifically designed for dimming; standard CFLs do not have that function.

How do I dispose of CFLs?
Some municipalities allow for regular trash disposal while others require disposal at a hazardous waste facility, or recycling facility. Contact your local waste collection service or municipality for the policy in your area.

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Customer Reviews

Way - way - way brighter than the 75W incandescent bulbs
The 13W CFLs are over four times as bright as the 75W incandescent bulbs. But they also have an extra blue spectral line. So, yes, you get down to sub-360nm with the black light CFLs (violet peak at around 417nm), but there is also a blue peak at 453nm, which means, in plain English, that when you turn these bulbs on, they will look blue. Actually, they will not look as violet at all, unless you look right at the bulb. (Your alternative is to get a 100W fish tank UV tube if you want true violet.) Yet in dark rooms, the sharp spectral peak nm intensities interact muscularly with the eye in a rather soothing manner to make the atmosphere of the room nearby much more futuristic. (A similar, yet vastly more amplified, futuristic atmosphere is created by using one or more blue 13W CFLs around the room.)

When lit, the bulb is very easy to look at and is not at all piercing.

The bulbs, when left on for several minutes, can even be tapped with a bare finger safely. But they still require a minute of cooling before unscrewing.

Remember that pungent burning plastic smell with those incandescent bulbs? Well, the CFL equivalent produces 70% less of that and thus will not fill your room up with the smell of burning plastic.

Finally, each black CFL stands 2.5 inches tall from base to tip. They are extremely tiny compared to the 20W white Sylvania's that you have in your desk lamps now. To demonstrate, span out your thumb and pinky finger tips to observe their separation. Two 13W CFLs can fit straight-standing in between.

Overall, the 13W Globe CFLs are fairly well-developed light bulbs to replace those dim, dangerously hot, power-wasting 75W incandescent bulbs.

It works, unlike incandescents at this price
Bought a couple of incandescent 60W black lights a while back and they are utter garbage,they seriously are not even good for lighting a UV poster in a pitch black room, so I was pleasantly surprised when I screwed these little guys in. With all three running, and total darkness, I was able to achieve a very nice UV effect, will probably pick up another set of 3 and a 2foot UV fixture and have myself a UV partay!

Good
This hard to find item is reasonably priced. It performs well. It's somewhat smaller and dimmer than I had hoped, however.