Posted on 07/22/2019 5:27:15 AM PDT by napscoordinator
Light bulbs
I resisted the CFL (fluorescent)lighting craze. Couldn’t stand ‘em.
I did jump on the LED bandwagon. I like ‘em. We have them all over the house, indoors and outdoors, too.
I have a few cases of 100W incandescent bulbs in the basement. I thought they’d be worth more than I paid for them after our all-knowing, all-seeing government banned them.
Any takers?
Two things:
1. Don’t be surprised if long-term health risks start to get talked about, although I haven’t heard anything yet, but it’s typically what happens when Leftists for something on to society.
2. Keep a few of old bulbs around (or halogens), as, even if we do get the power grid back up after the Norks (or Iran) do a high altitude ‘nuke test’, LEDs will be worthless.
“Light bulbs”
AOC eats light bulbs. She said if you turn it off she’d eat it.
I don’t remember people being against LED’s. It was the mercury containing florescent bulbs that were on the market when incandescent bulbs were outlawed.
The only legitimate reason the government had for interfering in the market was to reduce energy usage. But they did so by making us buy a dangerous product.
Had they waited LED’s would have come on the market anyway and people would have adopted them over incandescent bulbs the same way they replaced the florescent bulbs.
They’ve gotten better and they’re much cheaper now. But RFI is still a problem with many of them. Also, some of them flicker for no good reason (even when not on a dimmer).
Interesting. I’m hoping being in Florida, we won’t get the effects. Ha!
The prices have really come down
I was an early adopter. My wife made fun of me because every time we went to the store I had to stop and look at the light bulbs.
What I hated was passing laws to kill the incandescent
My whole thread is incorrect. I thought it included not liking LEDs also. Wow. I was even talking to the neighbors too about how wrong conservative were about this. The whole neighborhood is big time trumpers. I’ll have to go back and correct what we discussed because our whole premise was wrong from the beginning of our discussion. Thank you for giving me the real deal.
I had LED lights installed above my dining room table, home to my laptop. They lights gave me headaches, which went away after I had the old-fashioned lights reinstalled. (Thankful they still had them).
Harsh fluorescent lights bother me too.
I recently replaced the fluorescent tubes in my attic with LEDs (they work in the same fixtures without modifications).
I love them. They are brighter and use less current, and they work in the winter when the traditional tubes won’t light up at all.
I was a fan from the beginning. We will look at incandescent light bulbs the way we now look at gas or kerosene lamps.
Further, when the population switches, it has a significantly noticeable effect on the electric grid. I know this because that’s where I work. It’s not just a dent. It is much more significant than that.
However, I didn’t jump on at first simply because they were too expensive, just like a radio shack calculator in 1971 was too expensive.
Here’s another dirty little secret about them: Some will last pretty much forever while others will burn out because they are cheaply made.
But I live on 32 acres in Kentucky and I can now have lighting all over my property without stringing wires. The reason? LED’s use so little power that solar powered lighting is a reality now. That is a true game changer.
Such a harsh white light. No warmth at all. Surgical.
Like most of us, when the price went from $39.99 to $3.99 and they solved the blue light problem, it’s a decision that makes itself.
I recently replaced all my low voltage outdoor lights with LED’s. I have to admit it looks spectacular and it got me Yard of the Month in my neighborhood.
The one thing I simply have to have incandescent bulbs for:
My LavaLamp collection. I have a dozen. They need the heat.
I wonder if I have that. I get headaches but thought it was just stress.
I just put a bunch of LED’s in my low voltage outdoor lights and there were a lot.
If I start finding my neighbor’s bodies piled up in front of my house we’ll have an answer to that question.
Yeah, the flicker is annoying. I don’t understand why they do it. Maybe it increases life or something. I suppose it would cut power consumption.
Who was wrong? What did they think?
I was an early adopter - LEDs are improving all the time and dropping dramatically in price.
I use LEDs in the hard to reach places, but incadescents everywhere else. I love the light of an incadescent.
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