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Thread Number: 93940
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Incandescent light bulb BAN goes into effect next week |
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Post# 1186113 7/28/2023 at 22:04 (294 days old) by bradfordwhite  (central U.S.) |
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I'm not totally sure but I think it excludes things like mini christmas light bulbs and other specialty bulbs.
At this point, I'm sold on the LEDs anyway. Especially if they are replicating the amberish glow of an incandescent bulb. The efficiency is awesome. CLICK HERE TO GO TO bradfordwhite's LINK
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Post# 1186116 , Reply# 1 7/28/2023 at 22:23 (294 days old) by MattL (Flushing, MI) |
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No big deal for me, 99% of my many bulbs are LED. I am wondering about specialty bulbs, like oven lights that would be difficult to convert to LED. | ||
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Post# 1186121 , Reply# 2 7/28/2023 at 22:46 (294 days old) by Adam-aussie-vac (Canberra ACT) |
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It really makes me wonder, what’s going to happen with With appliance bulbs, oven bulbs nightlight bulbs stuff with specific applications that could potentially require a filament | ||
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Post# 1186135 , Reply# 3 7/29/2023 at 02:01 (294 days old) by Sudsomatic (Indiana) |
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Post# 1186144 , Reply# 4 7/29/2023 at 07:29 (294 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Incandescent lightbulb, phase out
There’s no problem using LED bulbs in microwave ovens. Also, the bulbs under over the range. Microwave ovens are switching out to LEDs.
Lightbulbs inside ovens will continue to be incandescent and be readily available. You’re heating the oven with resistance electric heat anyway so the bulb is actually assisting the heating of the oven that’s really what incandescent lightbulbs are best at anyway is heating Lighting efficiency is very low with incandescent bulbs. John. | ||
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Post# 1186156 , Reply# 5 7/29/2023 at 10:46 (294 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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 "Specialty" incandescent bulbs will reasonably continue to be available for applications such an oven cavity where exposure to high temperatures is a factor. I tried dimmable LED flood bulbs as a test in one of the auditoriums at the theater. Didn't work with the electronic dimming system so I put them in the lobby. I wonder, however, about halogen bulbs. I have a couple puck-lights with three levels via a touchpad to illuminate chatchkas on a shelf above my family room TV. One of the bulbs went out so I changed them both to LED bulbs which claim to be dimmable but the levels are erratic. Low is medium, medium is high, high is barely visible. My OTR microwave with high/low levels has halogen bulbs. | ||
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Post# 1186163 , Reply# 6 7/29/2023 at 12:44 (294 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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Post# 1186183 , Reply# 7 7/29/2023 at 17:24 (294 days old) by bradfordwhite (central U.S.) |
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I can't believe there was this big push a while back to get everyone using fluorescent and compact fluorescents.
Those contain mercury. And of course the compact ones, though they need special handling and disposal requirements, most people probably just throw them in the garbage. I don't think there is any application remaining that fluorescent was doing that LEDs can't do better and in less space. It's just amazing. | ||
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Post# 1186188 , Reply# 8 7/29/2023 at 18:13 (294 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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Post# 1186493 , Reply# 9 8/1/2023 at 10:31 (291 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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I can live with this as long as it’s not mandatory as in backed by and conveyed by some gestapo patrolling every structure actively ordering bulbs taken out which are in an active use not yet ready to burn out and the LED’s replacing them be as ready to use and as bright, efficient and long-lasting as meeting these government standards as well as my own—ditto for that yellow-like, amberish glow we're so used to as well!
Someone should have raided Thomas Edison’s laboratory, then, a long time ago… — Dave | ||
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Post# 1186542 , Reply# 10 8/1/2023 at 19:20 (290 days old) by bradfordwhite (central U.S.) |
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Ban starts today
AFter 16 years of b.s.
----- Dave, I have no doubt the FBI has you on top of their list. They're coming for any kind of incandescent bulb and will punish you big time. They'll also be confiscating all the potato chips and tubs of ice cream you've been hoarding. You're going to be blubbering like a pu..... on the side of the road when they're done with you. ----- For normal people, it just means retailers can't sell most incandescent bulbs. I wonder how this will play out on Ebay and the like with things like 1960s GE C7 or C9 Christmas light sets. CLICK HERE TO GO TO bradfordwhite's LINK
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Post# 1186568 , Reply# 11 8/2/2023 at 01:18 (290 days old) by Adam-aussie-vac (Canberra ACT) |
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it does make me wonder, Why can’t we put in high intensity discharge bulbs, the kind that use a ballast and igniter, such as say for outdoor lighting and fluorescent for indoor lighting | ||
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Post# 1186576 , Reply# 12 8/2/2023 at 06:50 (290 days old) by tolivac (greenville nc) |
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HID lamps can actually be more efficient than LED-in lumens per watt.Esp ceramic metal halide.Used by plant growers,some streetlights and indoor highbay lights.Also BETTER color quality than LED.Some LED lamps do allow you to adjust their color.That is something HID can't do-you have to change lamps. | ||
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Post# 1186581 , Reply# 13 8/2/2023 at 09:51 (290 days old) by philcobendixduo (San Jose) |
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Years ago....
......PG&E (our gas/electric provider) was subsidizing the cost CFL bulbs making them extremely inexpensive to purchase.
I bought a LARGE supply at the local hardware chain store (OSH) and still have MANY. I am one to use things up before buying new so will most likely be using CFLs for many years to come. I do have some LED bulbs (refrigerator, hanging light with candelabra bulbs, post lamp...) Christmas lights as well. CFLs have presented some issues for me. When they fail, they tend to do so with smoke and burning smells. CFLs also don't "play nice" with lighted wall switches. In a 3 way switch application, the CFL flashed on and off when it was turned off so I had to replace it with an incandescent bulb. On the flip side, LED bulbs require compatible dimmers and don't work well with "old school" dimmers. | ||
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Post# 1186586 , Reply# 14 8/2/2023 at 11:01 (290 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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Post# 1186611 , Reply# 17 8/2/2023 at 16:47 (290 days old) by MattL (Flushing, MI) |
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There are few things I hate more than CFLs. Hate the flat diffuse quality of their light output. Also hate some LEDs that have that flat light. Much prefer focused lighting in the home. | ||
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Post# 1186738 , Reply# 19 8/3/2023 at 15:35 (289 days old) by chetlaham (United States) |
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 @Tolivac: Remember Venture's formed arc tub pulse start metal halides? Those gave the best white light I've ever seen by far at exceptional lumens per what with great lumen maintenance. Like better than daylight. Color were edible, the air was like whine.
A lot of LEDs are over driven and get progressively dimmer as they age. | ||
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Post# 1186750 , Reply# 20 8/3/2023 at 19:23 (288 days old) by chetlaham (United States) |
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Cleanup in Isle 19 Ooops- Meant to say *tube and *wine. Forgive the spelling- I'm awful at spelling words.
Regarding LEDs I kind of have to agree with what someone called them over at a popular lighting forum "light emitting decorations" I think of that acronym every time I see LED lights and have him to thank in a good way. Don't get me wrong, LEDs have their place, but not all the LED lighting retrofits I've seen are to me love.
For example, a lot of the Cobra Heads around me have been replaced by LEDs that literally look like a sharp bullet of light coming from a central locus. Lots of pointy light around the fixture, yet ground and adjacent area coverage is really poor. The flat lens HPS were way better IMO.
Personally if it were me, I'd have street lighting at low pressure sodium. IIRC Advance Ballasts and Several lighting manufacturers offered a single coil reactive ballast that could drive a 35 or 55 watt HPS lamp at 480 volts input. Nothing simpler or more elegant IMO.
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Post# 1186764 , Reply# 21 8/3/2023 at 20:34 (288 days old) by chetlaham (United States) |
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I did Remember Correctly! Oh! Found it, my favorite ballast! Page 4-46 (165)
https://s3.amazonaws.com/cesco-content/unilog/Batch5/781087/116417-Catalog.pdf
Wiring diagram points to figure C, and "R-PFC" means reactive single coil choke ballast, power factor corrected.
This elegant ballast lets you drive 35, 55 and 90 watt Low Pressure Sodium lamps without an igniter. Igniters are common on European SOX lamps and do fail. The 480 volt open circuit voltage strikes the arc, while the inductor then limits the current to a point where the arc voltage is dropped to a suitable level for warm up and normal operations.
That means there is nothing to go wrong. No extra windings or igniters to fail like on HPS and Metal Halide.
480 volts is also a great voltage to run outdoor lighting circuits at- common on highways and bridges- most cobra heads on DOT roadways are fed at 480 volts line to line. Sadly because the open circuit voltage for common HPS and metal halides isn't 480, the need for complex regulation (trapazoid volt/current curves for HPS // peaked OCV for MH warm up), tight constant wattage limits and the need for a 2-4kv starting pulse leads to fixtures having an absolutely MASSIVE, HOT, Heavy, multi winding multi tapped capacitor in series iron ballast with an igniter that fails in short order when the bulb starts cycling or gives out completely.
A choke ballast on the other hand has nothing that can fail. Can easily last 40-60 years. Bulb can be swapped out without having to worry if the ballast/igniter is good or will give out before the next re-lamping cycle. Its like having a preheat fluorescent tube but without the need for a starter. Instant start cold cathode corona discharge, done with a single core and coil. | ||
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Post# 1186776 , Reply# 22 8/3/2023 at 22:23 (288 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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Post# 1186785 , Reply# 23 8/4/2023 at 00:53 (288 days old) by chetlaham (United States) |
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Yup. A lot of existing fluorescent, HID and Incandescent fixtures are now being retrofitted to LED. Ballast bypassed and the socket re-used, line voltage directly to the self ballasted LED corn cob.
Though, if it were me, parking lot lights, street lights, wall packs, posts, bollards, awning and most outdoor fixtures would be SOX Low Pressure Sodium. Monochromatic yellow can be so much fun ;) | ||
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Post# 1186821 , Reply# 26 8/4/2023 at 14:23 (288 days old) by MattL (Flushing, MI) |
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There are lots of focused narrow beam LEDs. I have dozens around the house as up lights and in recessed cans. | ||
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Post# 1186826 , Reply# 27 8/4/2023 at 15:41 (288 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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Post# 1186838 , Reply# 28 8/4/2023 at 18:55 (288 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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LED traffic lights during snow storms
I’m sure this problem will be solved with a little bit of re-engineering and adding a little bit of electric heat. That’s thermostatically controlled to the traffic signals so they can warm up enough to take care of ice and snow.
This type of problem is easily solved. There’s no reason to use in efficient incandescent lightbulbs for this reason,when only necessary 20% of the time on probably 20% of the traffic signals in the US does not justify wasting all that energy not to go to LEDs. John | ||
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Post# 1186859 , Reply# 29 8/4/2023 at 22:28 (287 days old) by chetlaham (United States) |
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Couldn't agree more. The red light is so beautiful complimenting the sun sets. IIRC the warm up time is like 8-10 minutes, the longest of any gaseous discharge lamp. I love it!
I encourage anyone to research the lumens per watt of LPS for LED.
LPS also cuts through fog better than LED.
I wish LPS caught on in the US the way it did in Europe. | ||
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Post# 1186863 , Reply# 31 8/4/2023 at 23:40 (287 days old) by bradfordwhite (central U.S.) |
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Interesting article comparing different light sources.
CLICK HERE TO GO TO bradfordwhite's LINK
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Post# 1186867 , Reply# 32 8/5/2023 at 00:04 (287 days old) by bradfordwhite (central U.S.) |
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Those old HPS and other bulbs that need a transformer are kind of scary.
The transformer makes noise so right there that's a big no for me. I have seen situations where the transformer literally leaked substance, probably some type of toxic oil. And the bulbs are not stable. They will lose their intensity as they age. As they age they are more likely to explode. If they have unstable electric surges they can explode from over heating. Plus, you have to keep track of how many hours the bulb has been in operation and religiously change them out before they go bad. The large bulb size along with the transformer makes them a bulky choice. And then there is the oil on our hands issue. One isn't supposed to handle these bulbs without gloves.
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Post# 1186870 , Reply# 34 8/5/2023 at 02:27 (287 days old) by chetlaham (United States) |
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Agnotology
Many of them get away with a simple reactor. No transformer needed.
Rarely audible when of quality make and installed correctly in the fixture.
That would be a potted ballast typical of fluorescent troffers. Ballasts in outdoor HID fixtures are almost always core and coil. Iron with a coil wrapped around it has nothing to leak.
HPS and LPS has some of the best lumen maintenance of any light source. Over driven LEDs have some of the worst lumen maintenance.
Only applies to type E quartz Metal Halide lamps. HID and LPS rarely if ever explode.
An 80 watt mercury vapor lamp can tolerate a 5,000 watt surge. The voltage to drive that level of current through an inductive ballast would long ago fry the electronics in a LED driver.
Much the opposite. HPS and LPS simply stop emitting light when their lumen output drops below 80%.
LED on the other hand tends to get dimmer and dimmer beyond their rated useful life.
Not really a concern until you get into high wattage LPS over 90 watts.
No such requirement exists for screw in HID lamps.
Tell me you don't understand HID technology without telling me you don't understand HID technology.
Tell me you're citing LED agnotology without telling me you're citing LED agnotology.
Most everything you read online comparing LED to every other lighting technology is mendacious propaganda propped up by blatantly incorrect information.
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Post# 1186877 , Reply# 36 8/5/2023 at 07:41 (287 days old) by chetlaham (United States) |
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Yup! But don't forget residential street lighting. 35-150 watt HPS lamps are typically 120 volt reactor driven.
I've always admired the size and cost difference between reactors and other types.
100 watt HPS Reactor ballast in Cobra:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/314692104305QUE...
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100 watt HPS Multi Tap CWA ballast in a Cobra:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/314678752464QUE...
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Post# 1186893 , Reply# 38 8/5/2023 at 10:13 (287 days old) by bradfordwhite (central U.S.) |
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It's no surprise
Mercury Vapor bulbs are set to be eliminated per 2005 EPA rules change. I didn't know this but considering they use MERCURY, OMG!
And the transformers making noise- whether it's flourescent or these gased up bulbs, the noise is nearly always present. I mean it's been referenced in film numerous times. One place I rented from had replaced all their street lights with LED bulbs that were clear, bright, came on instantly and made no noise....except for one lamp. I don't know why they missed that one but It flickered, the light was dull, and the noise it made. terrible. My Dad had a 120' x 70' utility shed built years ago and given that he sold wholesale electric lighting, poles, and supplies to municipalities and contractors, he of course found it necessary to put in six of those heavy "industrial strength" type fixtures. When ever you'd turn the lights on in there it was accompanied by a slow start up to get full light and of course that hum noise. Look at the size of that thing and that ballast. It needs to be hung hung with heavy chain because its heavy. CLICK HERE TO GO TO bradfordwhite's LINK | ||
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Post# 1186894 , Reply# 39 8/5/2023 at 10:18 (287 days old) by bradfordwhite (central U.S.) |
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Compare to this. 1000 watt equiv. Instant start and no noise.
Could probably hang it with fishing line. CLICK HERE TO GO TO bradfordwhite's LINK
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Post# 1186896 , Reply# 40 8/5/2023 at 10:25 (287 days old) by JoeEkaitis (Rialto, California, USA) |
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Post# 1187041 , Reply# 43 8/7/2023 at 10:19 (285 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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Play that link there for the vid’ while you read!
These are my prize incandescent bulbs, and I even have that lamp they’re in plugged into a cord switch with a dimmer—my desert island bulbs if I were able to keep at least one lighting structure with them:
— Dave CLICK HERE TO GO TO DaveAMKrayoGuy's LINK | ||
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Most everything you read online comparing LED "to every other lighting technology is mendacious propaganda propped up by blatantly incorrect information". And climate change and EV's and wind farms and "net zero"... | ||
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Post# 1188113 , Reply# 48 8/21/2023 at 17:52 (271 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Halogen and incandescent lightbulbs Using an incandescent lightbulb to keep Plumbing from freezing, is a very poor use of electricity for many reasons, number one it doesn’t work very well electric heating tape would be far better that has a thermostat that would run only as needed in the amount needed putting the heat where it is needed.
I wouldn’t want to rely on a lightbulb to keep expensive plumbing from freezing. The bulb could burn out at any time, kind of reminds me of my neighbor, who used to keep her Volkswagen diesel engine warm by putting 100 W lightbulb on it and covering it with a blanket at night in the winter , one day she looked out of her house window and the car was in flames because she got the blanket a little too close to the bulb that was the end of the car.
If you have two lightbulbs that you’ve been running four hours a day since 1996 assuming they’re 60 W bulbs you’ve already spent over $1000 in electricity how much more do you want to spend to prove a point , lol
It’s wonderful that we live in a free country where we can do foolish things, if we like, we all have our foolish things that we do, including myself, but I do think it’s the job of the government to regulate energy usage a large majority of Americans approve of this, including myself, and I vote for this type of regulation.
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Continued Left out the most important part of my statement. $17.09 is the yearly cost, based on current rates. Or $1.42 a month or 4 cents a day. Without the Notation - The Numbers are Irrelevant. | ||
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Post# 1188119 , Reply# 51 8/21/2023 at 19:13 (271 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Post# 1188160 , Reply# 54 8/22/2023 at 06:07 (270 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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Well there are a lot of points to consider when the heat from regular incandescent bulbs can be helpful although also a burning and even fire hazard…
What good then are LED bulbs without warmth if it can emit any safely where needed as in ice/snow-covered traffic lights and the lights on your car? And most importantly bulbs that grow dimmer with further use which I’d certainly never noticed but live a short life as I’d seemingly replaced quite many of really both kinds… And one of my outdoor light fixtures has an LED bulb in it with a day/night sensor that somehow keeps blinking… First that bulb was by my front door and eventually stayed on steady but I moved it by my side door and it won’t stop flashing… Wish though nothing on politics or government had to be involved or it be mandated or enforced by! And yes I associate that hot-spot glow somehow with an old song, that might have been playing while looking at old lamps which had those kinds of standard bulbs… — Dave | ||
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Post# 1189144 , Reply# 55 9/2/2023 at 01:35 (259 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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Do you know what happened to this bulb?
The lamp it was in tipped onto the base of a swivel desk chair you’ll see… I came home from work and smelled something burning or burnt, and seemingly just lifting that lamp off of the chair base wasn’t enough… The residue from all that plastic which attached itself to the hot light bulb emits some mean, hazy smoke from there into the air… — Dave | ||
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Post# 1189147 , Reply# 56 9/2/2023 at 06:13 (259 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Time to throw out the incandescent lightbulbs
You’re lucky you didn’t have a fire. This is one of the many reasons I have got rid of every incandescent lightbulb possible in my house and they go right in the trashcan.
It’s amazing how foolish people can be thinking they’re saving money by keeping old lightbulbs that use 10 times as much electricity. Glad you and your home are OK John | ||
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Post# 1189199 , Reply# 59 9/3/2023 at 01:55 (258 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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Do you know what kind of light bulb this is?
This is a Rough-Service Incandescent Bulb: If only more bulbs could be made this way without delicate filaments.. Otherwise that’s why LED’s have taken over the field! — Dave | ||
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Post# 1189200 , Reply# 60 9/3/2023 at 02:04 (258 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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Did you know I attempted to buy a desk lamp with a regular incandescent bulb at Walmart and it wasn’t allowed to be sold?
The register would not be product to be sold, like when I worked there at the checkouts and a product was in a recall and this was a number of years ago so I had to settle for buying this LED-illuminated one instead: At first those diodes were acting erratic barely lighting or flickering before dependably remaining on realizably and steady! A shame incandescent bulb-equipped lamps right then were on their way to be outlawed or not allowed to be sold but that one was somehow on the sales floor and apparently there to confiscate in lieu of sell had I gotten there at the right time… — Dave | ||
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Post# 1189255 , Reply# 62 9/4/2023 at 08:26 (257 days old) by GELaundry4ever (Nacogdoches, TX, USA) |
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september Here we are in September and it has happened. | ||
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Post# 1189352 , Reply# 63 9/5/2023 at 02:52 (256 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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Hanging here twelve years, come home from work to see this lit full blast with no one sitting under it, and not yet one original INCANDESCENT bulb, not even the flood lamp underneath burnt out!
— Dave
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Post# 1189354 , Reply# 64 9/5/2023 at 06:22 (256 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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12 years of of electric heat Candelabra bulbs like those are so inefficient they probably will burn NOT out in your lifetime.
They are really only good at putting off heat.
They do happen to put off a little bit of light less than 10% efficient.
I hope you’re enjoying the heat this time of year and enjoying paying for the air conditioning to remove it from your home,
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Post# 1189459 , Reply# 65 9/6/2023 at 15:32 (255 days old) by JustJunque (Western MA) |
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That looks very much like the fixture above our kitchen table.
In twelve years of living here, we may have replaced one bulb. Maybe. And, I don't know how long the previous owners had the fixture/bulbs. "Candelabra bulbs like those are so inefficient they probably will burn NOT out in your lifetime." I'll take that kind of inefficiency! 😉 | ||
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Post# 1189505 , Reply# 67 9/6/2023 at 23:04 (254 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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Post# 1189515 , Reply# 68 9/7/2023 at 01:57 (254 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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Leds with Filament and I think they are absolutely hideous. Yup. Usually in light fixtures that look like upside down used mason jars. Eeww.. | ||
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Post# 1189822 , Reply# 72 9/11/2023 at 19:30 (249 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Beautiful warm light from LEDs
Reply number 71, right you are Matt I replaced the incandescent 60 W bulbs in my dining room lamp fixture, I always figured this would be the last place I would ever put LED bulbs however, the new bulbs are far better than the incandescent bulbs, and use a 10th of the electricity.
I feel very sorry for people who want to stick their head in the sand. It won’t adjust to technology when it’s clearly superior, especially when these people are far younger than I am. | ||
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Post# 1190374 , Reply# 74 9/21/2023 at 01:48 (240 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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Did someone say THREE-WAY bulb? An old standby or THE old standby, what the radio is to television when TV had been invented but there were still radio shows…
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Post# 1190375 , Reply# 75 9/21/2023 at 01:50 (240 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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LED’s the strobe effect, the stark white light, the buzzing, the baffles, just to get a pair for my laundry room rated at what gives off 100 watts of incandescence at almost the bargain store incandescent lamp price!
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Post# 1190376 , Reply# 76 9/21/2023 at 01:56 (240 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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What kind of a light bulb is this inside my Paul McCartney album?
Could this be the inspiration for the LED design? — Dave | ||
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Post# 1190377 , Reply# 77 9/21/2023 at 01:58 (240 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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And finally, the oldest standard incandescent we must not turn on very often as the front hall light at my dad’s hadn’t had to be changed in years!
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Did someone say THREE-WAY bulb? Nice table lamp. Looks like a vintage Stiffle, the heavy brass type that can be used as weapons against intruders. I bought a couple of those at the estate sale where I loaded up on the three-way incandescents. | ||
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Post# 1190434 , Reply# 79 9/21/2023 at 22:12 (239 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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Post# 1190487 , Reply# 80 9/23/2023 at 04:57 (238 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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Stifle Lano: yes I’m sure a number of us grew up with those in that enormous size in our childhood homes which I believe held three way bulbs and our introduction to and again, I put my own dimmer switch in my bedroom lamp which got replaced with a regular toggle switch when that room among others got a light with a ceiling fan and don’t recall any other dimmers elsewhere just ne needing and fascinated with such…
Had no idea a stifling lamp could be used as a battering ram in self defense and notice how the harp is a little bent as I don’t know how it got that way, the lamp was from the late-in-jaws and nothrr-in-law once threatened to take it back when she saw it that floor of that basement not using because we had another table lamp in the living room which is still there… Incidentally that three way bulb has also been reduced to only one setting still working… — Dave | ||
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Reply #76 That looks like a so-called 'mushroom' incandescent lamp. There is a series of PAR reflector lamps which use the same (or very similar) envelope shape. All best Dave T | ||
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Post# 1195805 , Reply# 82 12/21/2023 at 21:42 by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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Yes those are LED’s up there, and I’m determined to get every bit of light out of the burned out one all I can while it still lights up every time I turn the fixture it’s in, OFF!!!!
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Post# 1198412 , Reply# 85 2/1/2024 at 19:36 by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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Uh, oh! It finally happened… Yes guess what?
That flood spotlight under my chandelier burned out… I swore it turned on with the rest of the light when I turned it on, then it looked dark under there so it looks like I didn’t see it actually burn out… Might just put a regular light bulb in its place! — Dave | ||
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Post# 1199355 , Reply# 87 2/15/2024 at 12:52 by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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Well I decided to replace that burned out flood light with an ordinary clear incandescent bulb:
It works fairly well… — Dave | ||
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Post# 1200468 , Reply# 88 2/29/2024 at 04:22 by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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Well that clear bulb I think made the switch on that light feel hot, so an LED in there is its replacement until I ever find another suitable flood for that light…
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Post# 1200483 , Reply# 89 2/29/2024 at 07:40 by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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New LED lightbulb | ||
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Post# 1200713 , Reply# 90 3/4/2024 at 08:37 by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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I found another box of incandescent lightbulbs
At the warehouse wall doing some cleaning and rearranging.
I’ve already thrown away hundreds of incandescent lightbulbs but these got tossed as well. I think the government should offer a bounty of $.50 apiece for people to turn in this junk.
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Post# 1200737 , Reply# 91 3/4/2024 at 13:14 by MattL (Flushing, MI) |
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Yup, I've tossed dozens, but no where near hundreds. Kind of hurt, a lot where specialty bulbs, but the cost of use outweighed the cost to replace as electric rates went up.. | ||
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Post# 1200740 , Reply# 92 3/4/2024 at 13:33 by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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LED gives off way more light than the old one. One the things I hate about LED's, obnoxiously brighter than necessary unless you're performing surgery on the kitchen counter. | ||
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Post# 1200813 , Reply# 95 3/5/2024 at 06:00 by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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There is someone like me who would love those incandescent bulbs you're choosing to garbage up into metal and broken glass--I would have taken those off your hands!
COMBO52: That looks exactly like my collection of some I have yet to use, seldom anything I have to light up with still ever burns out... -- Dave | ||
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