Posted on 02/10/2019 6:38:37 PM PST by ameribbean expat
The same type of people who bragged about digital watches in an earlier age.
Check the color temperature of the LED you're buying. The one at the link is 3000K, a warm white nearly identical to an incandescent light. That chart comes from Light Bulbs Direct, another source for LED bulbs.
Just use a sharpie and write your CC#s, bank security info, and wifi passwords on the exterior of you standard stupid incandescent light bulbs. That way when you throw them out the criminals will easily come up to speed.
You can scribble tons of info on thoses curly-cue lightbulbs with the mercury inside them.
and I was my dad's rabbit ear antenna adjust and hold specialist, an MOS shared by many in that era.
;>)
“we still have about 300 incandescent bulbs”
A couple years ago on “Last Man Standing”, Tim Allen and his neighbor tried to buy incandescent bulbs. It was a take-off on trying to score drugs. Pretty funny.
“I grew up having to actually get up off the couch to change the channel”
And it was a grueling experience, having to trudge through 7 feet of shag carpet to do it, right?
I am fighting my smartmeter all the time. It keeps trying to set up a LAN with my PC. Least they could do is give me free internet through it. lol
But there is no need for a physical connection, Smartmeters are cellphone/WiFi and already a wireless connection. They are connected WiFi in series/relay with your neighbors as a wireless network.
LED...
With a wall switch...
But... when I was growing up I don’t ever recall my dad replacing light switches or outlets for plugs. I’m changing these things out with regularly. I guess that’s the trade off in having cheap junk produced overseas to install in our houses now.
“I was my dad’s remote control.
Me too. And I was voice activated.”
I remember when remote controls were first available for television sets. Our neighbor had one and if you put it up to your ear and clicked it you would hear faint tuning fork noise from the inside. I think you had five channels or so on this remote control and each button activated a tuning rod sound to the television which clicked to the appropriate channel that the tuning Rod was supposed to activate. My neighbor also noticed that his dog’s squeak toy would change channels intermittently and when this German Shepherd of his would get that squeak toy he would be squeaking it like crazy and the television would be switching channels all over the place. It was pretty funny but also interesting.
I reckon the mindset of all this technology people are putting in their houses is to fool the thief that comes in the night to steal and destroy. Dimming lights and turning lights on, opening and closing window shades, turning on and off radios... all from their smartphone or maybe their laptop as long as the internet is running. Plus they have remote cameras all over the place. Me? I have an insurance policy.
To have a “smart” anything in your home is dumb.
Especially with no air conditioning; and talk about the burden of actually having to dial a telephone...
Thanks.
Put it inside an empty mylar potato chip bag (it's a faraday cage), roll it closed and tape it, and then step on it. Problem solved.
"Smart" bulbs are to incandescents as Common Core is to arithmetic.
I would buy 130 v incandescent bulbs they would last a lot longer than 120 v. 2x 3x and more longer. LED’s last a long time or in days or weeks of installation they would fail. When I first bought LED infant mortality would be as high as 50%. hated cfl’s they took a long time to give sufficient light and in cold weather.
2700k
The temp rating roughly corresponds to the frequency band of the light. Lower is more yellow.
Thanks.
“constantly adjusting the vertical or horizontal :-)”
Oh yeah. I remember those days when the screen would randomly start flipping out. Used to drive me crazy.
And the old remote, I still remember the loud “clang” noise it made when you pushed a button. It only had 4 buttons, channel up-down and volume up-down. Spent many days playing sick from school and watching cartoons and game shows on it from my dads bed. :)
Still wish we had kept it. It was a cabinet-style tv in a beautiful cherry wood casing. Actually looking back at old pictures I think it was a Philco model.
I kind of like the fact that you can hide the new flat, light-weight TVs in a cabinet/armoire, so it’s only visible when you are actually using it; no interference if it seems anachronistic to your preferred decor ;-)
But a lot of the old ones were made into very nice contemporary furniture. I always wanted one that was a tv/stereo set combined.
There was even a fad for lamps that went on top of the TV; to be truly ‘with-it’, you HAD TO HAVE one, just like you needed a centerpiece for your dining room table:
http://cdiannezweig.blogspot.com/2010/11/collecting-1950s-tv-lamps.html
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