Posted on 02/21/2016 2:35:22 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Led less heat more light. Uses 1/2 electricity of a CFL
New market = Pot in Colorado, Washington, and Oregon
And without that $1000 a month electric bill that tips off the DEA.
New suspects = DEA
Big problem at that time was the power supply. Power electronics wasn't cheap enough (or efficient enough) to make the miniature switching power supply that was required.
If the person who told me this was right (and I'm sure he knew what he was talking about), GE has been working on CFL since 1955 if not earlier.
Never liked CFLs and I’m stuck with a lot of them. Replaced many w/ LEDs and now have the ones I replaced.
Now that they’ve got the color corrected thay are superior in every way.
Designer styles are very expensive though.
One caveat.. Costco sells Feit LED bulbs. They can cause RF if mounted near a radio, ie. night stand w/ radio.
States so on the back of the pkg.
Have had good luck w/ Cree LEDs.
In space-constrained Japan, GE helped launched an indoor farm that grows lettuce 2.5 times faster than conventional outdoor agriculture, while cutting waste to just 10 percent (compared to upward of 50 percent outdoors) and water consumption to only 1 percent of conventional outdoor farming. The trick? LED lighting.
Sorry, I don't believe it. Senator McCain told me that only Mexicans can harvest lettuce. < /sarc>
I hated CFLs from the beginning, but in general love my LEDs. I have 3 CFLs left. One I barely use, one is the 150-watt one I want to replace, and one is an outside light that I will soon replace. Other than that all my new bulbs are either LEDs or a few halogens.
I can literally HEAR all the LED lights getting installed in our neighborhood in my amateur radio equipment. I had to rip every single one of 'em out of my house after my receive noise level jumped exponentially the very night she installed LED lights in our youngest son's bedroom, which is right underneath two of my wire antenna's.
Naturally the FCC is too busy trying to regulate the Internet than to actually DO something about RF Interference caused by LED Lights!
Just don’t pour your cereal into your bowl undear LED light. The strobe effect will make your head spin.
I have enough incandescent bulbs squirreled away to last my lifetime...and a good chunk of my kid’ lifetimes, too.
I know a retiree that triggered a year long investigation for simply buying a mail order grow light.
Digging through his trash, heat sensing fly-overs, etc.
Probably a hundred grand or more to charge a 62 year old man with a bad back for having 2 plants in his basement.
All the indoor growers have already shifted to LED. Little heat, better spectrum and more lumens.
New?
Me, too. When they intimated that incandescent lights were on the way out, I bought several cases of them. I’m good to go for a long time.
Could you re-size your post to make it bigger? Having a hard time seeing it.
Another problem with CFLs, they don’t last longer than incandescents. The ones I’ve used had considerably shorter lives than incandescents.
Second-hand Rose?
I agree. I skipped the CFL direction completely, but now have lots of LED natural spectrum bulbs. Really give a daylight feel indoors, sturdy—I dropped one to the floor from about 6 ft up and it was fine, and of course cheap to use.
I’ve got CREE and they seem to be excellent. (And no detectable RF at all.)
Is CREE a brand name or a type of LED bulb?
Glad to hear the light looks natural. That’s the
kind of info I was hoping to find on this thread.
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