Posted on 07/22/2019 5:27:15 AM PDT by napscoordinator
Light bulbs
I was an early adopter but slow and controlled
I started with the lights that were on the most like outdoor lights
I need the tubular incandescent bulbs as a heat source for my tiny lizards. LEDs simply don't generate enough heat (barely any!) to fulfill this function. Otherwise, I love my LEDs in the rest of the house, as they are instant-on (unlike CFLs) and don't contain mercury (unlike CFLs). If you think they have a harsh white light, I suggest you choose LEDs with a lower number on the temperature scale, like 2500K. That gives a more mellow color of light.
“...the bulbs that should last thousands of hours only last for about a year...”
A year is thousands of hours.
Pick a warmer color temp. Say, 2700K
It was definitely here. Lots of outrage. I am so glad they are working out for you. I love them myself.
That’s amazing. Mine is 130 last month in red Florida. Why blue states are more affordable is a mystery.
If you think they have a harsh white light,...
This once there were right too. Not often but a lot of crow eating with conservatives.
That does look good.
Doesn’t matter, the gubmint is not supposed to be in the business of telling citizen what to do. I’d rather depend upon the market to pick the winners.
I used to have to carefully plan my plug-in scheme for my Christmas lights, as I line my driveway which is pretty long, and my front walk. The incandescents needed a new plug/cord every 2 1/2 strings (about 60 lights), or they would throw a breaker. It got so complicated, I drew a diagram when I got a configuration that worked!
I went to LED’s, and I was a happy man. According to the wattage numbers on the box, I could string a half mile of the LED’s without the same problem. I plug one side of the driveway and my front walk into one outlet, and the other side of my driveway into another. DONE!!!
We conservatives are not Luddites or Reactionaries. I would be happy in the intellectual company of Burke, but I do not want to return to 1789.
The problem with what our Federal government did on light bulbs covered a number of areas.
First, it was a Planned Economy or Regulated program that the Federal Government did not belong regulating.
Second, planned and government mandated programs, economies and the like are bound to poor results. We have had two decades of flawed toilets and just one of hundreds of examples. Such with the poor light bulbs the first five years of this fiasco. Do some toilets now work as promised, along with some light bulbs — sure but think of the waste and disruption in a Land of Liberty.
There are chemicals and issues with the new light bulbs in SOME cases that we will not know for decades. Evolutionary progress (funny how the left fights it) with empirical results would have probably been safer.
I buy many as well, partly due to market forces and partly due to ten foot ceilings and seven decades of ladders.
I don’t live anywhere near New York City, but in central New York, in the Mohawk Valley. My rent is cheap. I’ve been in the same apartment for almost 20 years, and my rent is only $480 a month. I’ve got a two bedroom with central air, dishwasher, electric stove and fridge...plus I have multiple devices, and two battery back-ups for all of those devices. I have three walk-in closets, and a storage area in the basement. I go to the laundromat to do my washing, because I don’t feel like running up, and down the stairs here to check on the stuff. It’s just a lot easier to drag it to the car, sit and read a book while my stuff washes and dries, and then drag it back up the stairs. Of course we don’t have all the restaurants like Syracuse does. In fact, they just closed the Outback Steak House in New Hartford, NY., which is about a half hour away from me. Gas prices here are always higher, compared to other places in the State, except closer to New York City.
I sort of like those old mantle based gas lights, the ones like the gasoline camping lanterns.
Ah, and the sound of a vacuum tube amplifier....
I can make that same shot using incandescent lighting and a trip through Photoshop. I bet you that any LED photo has to be post-processed in order to look like that.
Yeah, but the lights are only on 1-2 hours/day, max.
A raw LED light is piercingly bright, and hurts the eyeballs.
Why?
It's the high kelvin score.
Now you can buy LEDs in the 2700 kelvin range, and they are actually pretty close to incandescent.
Go lower than 2700, and they are very warm appearing.
I still prefer incandescent, but for a hard to reach place that you don't want to replace for about 10 years, the low kelvin LEDs are a good choice.
There are LED lights now that mimic candlelight softness.
Technology rose up to the occasion.
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