Posted on 07/13/2011 9:02:50 PM PDT by Steelers6
The new squiggly fluorescent bulbs 51% The old incandescent bulbs I've used for years 48% Total votes: 427
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Incandescent; fluorescent tubes (old type); LEDS. No CFLs.
The LEDs are a clear Christmas style string along the ceiling of an unheated cellar that doesn’t have switched fixtures. Less than 5W, so they are always on.
Flourescent ceiling fixtures in the kitchen & LR.
Incandescents in the bedrooms, bath, and LR reading lampss.
With temps that get down to -10 to -20 in the winter, all outdoor lights & lights inside less heated areas are incandescent.
Coleman lanterns & kerosene lamps as an emergency backup, which we’ve only had to light once in 12 years. A forest fire took out a main trnasmission line, and the outage lasted several hours. We have GREAT crews; other, more inhabited, places we’ve lived have gone down days at a time for less cause.
We have a few (given to us for free) CFLs still in their boxes, sitting in a drawer that have been there nearly 15 years.
I’m acquainted with a young lady (works where I get some supplies periodically) who has a similar condition aggravated by florescent lights. Those lights do flash at about 60 times per second.
He can’t handle LED’s either, we tried them. And we live in a cold climate.
I’m using incandescent bulbs that will last almost ten years if used on an average of 7 hours a day!
I buy incandescents and halogen, depending on the usage.
I have a whole spreadsheet to track the total costs per lumen over time, bulb by bulb. I have it down to where I can tell whether I’ll spend $60 for 6,000 hours of 1800 lumens, or $48 for the same time and lumens.
I want the capital cost of LED to come down, because that’s where I think I can really save money. They are bright, use very little energy, last a long long time, they are dimmable, don’t make noise, have good light spectrums, and can be used in creative configurations. Right now, they’re just too expensive.
How many people swore off fluorescent tubes for the same reason?
I couldn’t stand CFL at all until I stayed at the Marriot in San Diego, where they use 42-watt CFL bulbs (150-200 watt equivalent). These have amazing light. As someone says in a customer review at http://www.amazon.com/Feit-Electric-ESL40TN-Fluorescent-High-Wattage/dp/B001AZOV9K :
“The only light I could compare it to is the elven light in Lord of the Rings. You know the one Frodo holds up to fend off the spider? It’s exactly like that. Seriously. It’s elven bright.”
Personally we use a combination of things, including arrays of 32-watt 48-inch fluorescent bulbs on the tops of cupboards, cabinets, and Ikea cube shelves. From the outside our house has a bluish, alien glow, but on the inside we actually have enough light to work, read, and cook by.
I have full spectrum conventional tube fluorescents in kitchen but incandescent everywhere else. I despise the squiggly compact fluorescents
Bad news for all you LED users...
http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/2011/04/surprise-led-bulbs-no-better-than-cfls/
LED’s are no more safer or less toxic than CFL’s.... The more you know...
If you purchase daylight CFL’s, in the 5-6500K range, you arent left with that ugly yellow that alot of folks complain about. I use nothing but 6500k in the house and the lighting looks amazing.
a mix...
high use ... CFLs
infrequent .... old type
Hear, hear!!!
We’ve already converted our entire lighting system to the old-style oil lamps. The best fuel we’ve found so far is made from baby harp seat and Spotted Owl fat. About $9.00 a gallon, but worth every penny.
For outside lighting we have fire-pits located around the house and up the driveway. For special occasions we’ll throw an extra tire on the fire.
Hints:
1. The older ones (bias-ply ‘D’ load range) give out much more light than the new radials and cleaning out the fire pit is much easier without having to deal with all the steel-belted cord.
2. Stuffing the inside of the the tires with baby ducks and bunnies doused with a 50/50 mixture of kerosene/used motor oil makes lighting them up a breeze.
Not any more. Current poll is about “Harry Potter Movies”.
Total malarkey. An incandescent bulb gives off FAR more "infrared" than an LED. The only LED's that produce infrared emissions are those specifically tailored to do so, and they emit ONLY a specific spectral band in the infrared. And all "non-infrared" LED's produce virtually ZERO infrared, emitting only a narrow band around their specific designed-in output wavelength.
And the likelihood of LED's "leaking" their toxic content, even in a landfill, is virtually zero (see above comment about multiple layers of encapsulation).
My Freon 12 all was lost when I was installing my 1/2 pint flush toilet.
They will, and FAST, if christmas lights and flashlights are any indicators. Virtually overnight car tail/brakelights changed to led. and those blinders on top of cop cars? WOW!
How many homes use a significant percentage of fluorescent tubes?
LOL! We do seem to have bad luck, don’t we?
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