"RedForeman" wrote in message
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I think it is you who are making it more confusing that it needs to be.
So
again, let's try to unconfuse this by going back to my very simple
question. When you plug it in, how many bulbs light up?

Just answer that, nothing more. You're getting yourself all confused on
the other terminology which is confusing everyone else in the process
and
making this one very convulted thread on what should have been a very
simple question.

Tell me what I don't know, not what is already obvious...

what do you call a bulb??? What I see is two bulbs, but they are
connected,
so that's one bulb.... see, I can be confusing and confused all at the
same
time....


Compact Flourescent bulbs are called that because they are a compact version
of a normal flourescent - they are a long skinny tube folded up. What you
are describing seems to be a single blub (two tubes, 4 pins). Basically if
the 'bulbs' are one unit that cannot be taken apart, then it is just a
single bulb. so you have 55 watts.