Posted on 01/28/2009 8:55:17 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Americanophile uhh....threw it away into the uhh...the recycling bin!
Yeah! Dat's it!
Robocop.
“Americanophile uhh....threw it away into the uhh...the recycling bin!
Yeah! Dat’s it!”
Works for now until we have to report them as ‘stolen’.
(some recycling bins are monitored due to town ‘resources’ being depleted by nefarious personages... so they’d getcha if you said you ‘recycled’ it and weren’t on tape to back it up... UK, here we come)
I’ve experienced the same thing. I just changed one that had not been in use for a year or so but I have some that I can’t remember when I last changed them. I read somewhere that they last longer when they are not being turned on and off constantly.
We have some LED lamps too. I like the 48 LED array sold at Fred Meyer as a battery powered work lamp for the garage and computer maintenance. The "light bar" styles didn't work out well for desk lighting for my wife's desk in the kitchen. I wouldn't recommend those at all.
thanks, bfl
Unless they can come up with a better color spectrum match, no thanks. All the “white” LED’s I’ve seen have much too high a color temperature to use for general purpose lighting. They make great lamps for building miniature spectrometers, though.
No, they will be confiscated by the Gubmint upon your death and redistributed to "needy" Obamalamadingdong voters.....
“Hope it works better than the LED booklight I threw away.”
If it was because it wasn’t bright enough, you could have kept it for an excellent emergency light.
Any and all led, battery powered lights and especially the older, less bright led flashlights that some of us bought years ago, are all very useful for blackouts.
Your experience with CFL is pretty much the same as mine.
Those guys are notorious for putting out poor quality products. They're also very bad about making dishonest efficiency claims. Packages for CFLs are always going to say something about how a low watt CFL bulb will replace a higher watt incandescent bulb. They'll say for instance that a 23 watt bulb is the equivalent of a 100 watt incandescent, which is generally pretty true. The lumen output will be about the same. Lights of America talks about “brightness lumens,” something they've made up themselves. These brightness lumens are not the same as “photometric” lumens everyone else goes by, and the number of “brightness lumens” one of their lamps puts off is always considerably higher than the actual lumens it puts off. They're conning people into believing their lights are much more efficient than they really are because they know the average person isn't going to know that Lights of America lumens are different than the lumens they'll read about on other lightbulb packaging when they are comparing products at the store to make a purchase. Never buy anything made by Lights of America. They're a shady organization that puts out low quality junk and makes deceptive claims about their products.
True, but I’m not a packrat.
Having a battery powered led light for black outs does not a pack rat make.
Well, I have a light for that, not that it ever happens, so it’s crap I didn’t need, didn’t want, and enjoyed discarding. Guess I’m a sinner!!
“This is going to replace CDs soon. Guess I’ll have to buy the White Album again.”
Thanks GW.
“Unless they can come up with a better color spectrum match, no thanks. All the “white” LED’s I’ve seen have much too high a color temperature to use for general purpose lighting. They make great lamps for building miniature spectrometers, though.”
I wished they made these lights for homes.
If they did maybe people would buy these to light their hallways.
http://www.glow-lux.com/
Just looking at your link, I don't see anything that says the regular consumer can't buy these gizmos. They appear to be direct replacements for standard fluorescent tubes. Why do you say you "wished they made these lights for homes"?
“Don’t tell me ... they’re made in China.”
Korea.
Well, what I meant to say was I wished they had a price list for single bulbs, and also sold smaller ones for use in regular light sockets.
I would love to have some of these in my bedroom for use as a cheap nightlight so I can find the door if I have to stumble to the restroom late at night, and they could be used in kids rooms as nightlights if the kids are afraid of the dark.
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