Is this Long-Life lamp working properly?

[Dave]

First time I've ever bought one of these LL lamps (sad,,, sad). Anyway, It's 20W equiv. light of 100W and has three long U shaped tubes. When switched on, only two of the tubes light up (takes about 1 minute to reach full brilliance). But it takes a few minutes longer before the third tube shows any light at all! Is this normal operation? tia

[bigcat]

Anyway, It's 20W

brilliance). But

they dont normally do that, but the occasional one will. CFLs are a lot more variable than GLS, buying a few different makes will soon show you which ones are best. Avoid the =A31 ones.

NT