Posted on 12/19/2022 10:58:24 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
I read the instructions included in cfls once for grins... They instruct you to wait at least 15 minutes after you turn it on to switch it off. Quick flicks on and off shorten their life span.
Why is the Fed govt involved in light bulbs?
“When it was cold outside we would turn on an incandescent lamp to take the chill off a room. Now, we just have to turn up the thermostat.”
When using incandescent lamps (especially in rooms where there were multiples, like the living room or bathrooms) in the summer in AZ, I had to turn down the thermostat considerably. I’ve never used an incandescent since decent LED’s became available, although I did buy a lot of them when they were being phased out and the only thing available were crappy CFL’s. Now they just take up space in the storage room (but not much, so I hang on to them just in case).
Go for it I have enough to last a lifetime plus I rather prefer led now if I can get it in a warm color
Because SIDDOWN, SHADDAP, AND OBEY, SLAVE!!!!!!
I was gonna ask if this was named The Dim Bulb Act of 2022.
Went looking for an outdoor LED flood lamp to do the same job as the 150 watt incandescent ones. Can’t really find one. Mostly seem to say indoor on them. But in any case the coldest rated ones are only rated to -4 degrees F. That is simply not cold enough as they need to be rated at least -20. And preferably colder. Basically none of the bulbs are rated for real cold. I believe this is a limitation of the built in power supplies and not the LED’s themselves. Even went looking on line and could find nothing. Just a bunch of dribble about how LED’s love the cold and are good to -22 degrees. Even though the manufacturers all label the boxes to only 0 to -4. In the world of google you can’t even find people asking the same question as they won’t allow anything negative about LED’s.
Are people not supposed to have outdoor lights in the cold?
Exactly and they have mercury in them. You werenât supposed to throw them away but take them to be recycled.
Amen. CFLs should never have existed. ILs should have remained until LED technology matured.
I tried using CFLâs to replace incandescent when they first became popular. They got nowhere near the rated life in most applications. The only places I found them useful were in fixtures that would be turned on for extended periods of time, such as dusk to dawn, exterior, lighting, or lamp on the timer that I had turn on every evening.
Brandon’s brain could generate about 1/10th of a lumen.
I still have a few CFLâs in use as well. At this point, there in either sell them used fixtures or outdoor fixtures that are not used often and where instant full brightness isnât a big concern. When they eventually die, so obviously get replaced with a LED bulb or Iâll just replace the fixture depending on location.
Chicoms miss a payment?
Some LF toilets are actually pretty good. I have a tall sleek sided Jacuzzi LFT that will make the curtains billow in when you trip the lever.
Just like the paper bag/plastic bag thing. All solutions from the left are dumb. Paper bags are far superior to plastic in just about every way. Not only do you use fewer of them for groceries, they are completely biodegradable. It never, ever made any sense at all.
Was just thinking of that... Bag of burnt out bulbs and going down to Detroit Edison and getting free bulbs...
Our power company sent everyone a couple of those stupid light bulbs. They don’t work in winter time and the light is just awful coming out of them. I use to get horrible migraines that were triggered by them.
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm is 'picking at 'nits'' while the man-made world energy crisis looms over transportation, supply chain, and home heating.
Perfectly understandable given this administration !
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