32oz Clearview warm up times?

[Grant B]

Hi everyone,

For those of you that have the new clearviews, how do your warm up times compare to standard 32oz LL's?  If I fire mine up at the same time the clearview seems to take about 45 minutes longer to get going than my non-clearview does. I'm just curious if anyone else sees the same behavior.

[ken mitc]

Yea my clearviews take longer also seems to be the norm my yellow clearview takes longer than my red clearview.

[Grant B]

Interesting, I wonder why that is (about the yellow vs red). I'm assuming that the plastic holding section doesn't conduct heat into the globe like the traditional metal ones, so I suppose it makes sense that they would be slower.

[Bridget T]

Well, at least yours heat up and flow.  My yellow one doesn't get beyond the sending tendrils of lava up stage.  Of course, if I put it on my silver streak base it warms up just fine and flows (well, blobs).

I have my old ones on dimmers which have helped, but maybe I need to see if it flows on a dimmed old base.  I don't know, any other ideas?

[ken mitc]

my yellow take at least 2 hours to get flowing but once it starts it flows nice.

[SAFETYpin]

My Yellow one seems to take a lot longer too.... I wonder if it has anything to do with a 25 watt spot instead of the 40 watt appliance bulb.  Although I run most of my 32oz 40 watters on a dimmer.

[Bridget T]

I still haven't swapped the globe with one of my dimmed 32oz ones.  I have a hunch it would run much better on a 30 watt bulb, just don't know how bad of an idea it would be to up the wattage on the clearview base.