Easy Ways to Improve Your Fluorescent Lighting Replace outdated T-12 bulbs with newer T-8’s. This will help save energy and help with the glare you make be experiencing from too much output. Cover your fixture with a polycarbonate or acrylic plastic cover. Protect your fluorescent tubes with tube guard sleeves. Click to see full answer. Furthermore, how do you soften fluorescent lights?You can also create a rice paper fluorescent light cover to help soften the light from the fluorescent lamps. The rice paper lets light pass throughly easily, but it reduces the glare and the harsheness that often comes from fluorescent lights. what are the benefits of fluorescent lights? Fluorescent lamps also do not produce as much heat as traditional lighting options. They make about 75% less heat compared to an incandescent bulb because they are not using resistance to emit light. That also results in an energy savings, and also helps to keep whatever room they are in at a cooler temperature. Also to know, is it better to keep fluorescent lights on? You may have heard people say: “It’s best to leave fluorescent lights on: it’s cheaper than switching them on and off”. Usually they say it takes a lot of energy to start up a fluorescent and secondly, say that switching on/off lights reduces the lamp life and there is the expense of replacing the lamp.What are the disadvantages of fluorescent lamps?Some of the disadvantages of compact fluorescent bulbs are that they are cold temperature sensitive, not recommended for enclosed fixtures, can have a higher initial cost than incandescent, have a longer warm up time, they may have limited color temperatures, do not dim nearly as smoothly, and dimming decreases the