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From: lewisd@homxc.UUCP (David Lewis)
Newsgroups: misc.consumers,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: fluorescent lights and my brain
Message-ID: <2008@homxc.UUCP>
Date: 25 Apr 88 18:24:46 GMT
References: <530@scourge#
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Red Hill Site, NJ
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Keywords: eyes head ache electricity
Summary: vitalite

In article <530@scourge#, harrym@sco.COM (Harry Max) writes:
# I just started a new job and now must work under
# fluorescent lights.  My brain seems to be adversely
# effected my the lights.  I have been going home with
# a lot of eye- and brain-strain.
# A hardware tech told me that it is possible to
# phase the lights.  He said that there is some way
# to put the starters or ballasts in phase so that
# my brain wont hurt.  Is this true?  If so, how
# can I do it? 
# Harry  Max
I find that I have eye-strain, too, but I think it is more from close
work than from the lighting.
 I don't know what the technician was talking about.
 I do know, however, that I don't really like the fluorescent lighting
in my windowless office.  I've been looking (not very hard) for
something called Vita-lite, which, I understand, is an alternate
fluorescent lighting which produces a much more natural, energizing light.
It may reduce the glare which could be contributing to your head-aches.
-- 
David B. Lewis    {ihnp4,allegra,ulysses,rutgers!mtune}!homxc!lewisd
"More than ninety years ago, H.G. Wells foretold time travel, yet to this day 
the time machine stands as an example of a vision unfulfilled."
  -- lead sentence from an article on optical storage in Macworld, 4/88, p.155