Posted on 12/17/2007 5:23:48 AM PST by Libloather
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“It doesn’t make sense to me. Big ones okay, mid size and ‘small ones’ not okay??? And if so, why are only Big Ones okay???”
I somehow have a feeling that has to do with standard socket size. If you need larger than standard socket - that’s “rare”, so it’s OK to sell because there are only a few. But if they all have standard-size sockets, big could be used in small, etc, so many would be sold, which would be “bad” for the environment.
Hmmm . . .so someone is upset about light bulbs and becomes a Ron Paul follower.
Just more proof his followers are even more looney than he is.
Nope, no dimmers, maybe you should listen to Willie Nelson.
Seriously though, what’s all the fuss about fluorescent bulbs.
I replaced all of mine in the house and noticed a reduction in my utility bill. Of coarse I have 3 kids that just love to leave every light in the house on with both tv’s, Xbox, computers and the like.
The only thing I notice is that when it’s colder weather, the bulbs are dimmer until they warm up.
Ironically, many of them are designed to run base-up -- they NEED the heat in order to run efficiently. (Unless you're exciting them with a very high voltage "instant-on" ballast, the startup process is more than a bit convoluted. The heaters at each end need to warm up enough to kick off enough electrons to allow "the spark" to traverse from one electrode to the other -- and then, the heat of operation is supposed to provide enough energy (heat) to maintain the spark (the white coating on the glass "fluoresces" and converts the UV light from the spark discharge to visible light).
Likewise, outdoor/cold-weather operation is often problematic.
Talk about easy to break!
When you have to put whole floppy strings up and down within a month, and have to work over pavement (and even any ground if it hits wrong and it’s rock-hard cold), and you’re probably going to step on them - you KNOW you’re going to have little environmental disasters around Christmas time!
I think you called BINGO!
You should follow the example of Jolie-Pitt and purchase your power supply from a third world wholesaler.
Those Jolie-Pitt power cells may not put out much wattage at first, but they will start pushing the power once they grow into the harness...
I have some bulbs on a timer switch that says not to use with fluorescent bulbs (I think because the electronics in the timer need a trickle of current to run) — what about that?
LOL. Thanks, but I was hoping not to have to imagine that. :)
Guess I’ll have to keep my led flashlight handy for when my refrigerator light burns out!
We have some miniature CF bulbs that look just like thost little "flame" bulbs. They're only 3 watts, and not really usable. So, we don't use them.
There are SO many "oh, shit! I didn't think of THAT!" gotchas in this travesty... slide projectors -- exciter bulbs in movie projectors (the big theatrical projectors us a carbon arc for projecting the image, but a small incandescent bulb for the soundtrack exciter). The little bulbs in the oven and freezer. The bulbs in the garage that turn on when the door opens (CF tubes don't as a rule like cold weather, and the higher output variety don't turn on instantly -- even the "instant start" type will take a few minutes to come to full output -- they need to warm up before they put out more than fairly dim light, and that's at room temperature conditions!)
I could go on and on... the incandescant bulb is an integral part of our society. They might as well outlaw the doorknob. This insanity accomplishes one thing -- it gets "the sheep" real busy trying to cope -- whether out of a delusional sense of mission, or, out of basic need to deal with the madness -- and, when the sheep are busy with this kind of "make-work crisis" they will NOT be making trouble for Their Rulers.
I'll tell you something else to expect -- people will start using Coleman lanterns indoors -- because they put out "incandescent" light (it's not electric, but it IS incandescent). There will be a lot more housefires, lives lost, etc., because people will be using FLAME lighting more and more, as the ubiquitous, CHEAP, lightbulb is taken away from them.
People who are just scraping by... when "replacing a burned out lightbulb" means "going without a meal" -- they'll simply dig out the camp lantern, fill it up with whatever "fluid" is handy, pump it up, and go.
This is just plain madness.
...and the bulb in the chicken coop to keep the chickens from freezing, and the bulb in the pump house to keep the pipes from freezing...
That's right. Every standard X10-equipped outlet or lamp (i.e., integral dimmer) will become an instant fire hazard.
Millions and millions and millions of lamp dimmers -- wired, and X10-type -- rendered not merely obsolete, but DANGEROUS by, how's that go? Oh, right: "Stroke of the pen, law of the land; kinda cool!"
Looks like this will be a very profitable age to be an electrician -- and a fireman, too.
Nope. We have 4 VHO and 2 Halides, We have it timed so that not all of it is on at the same time which would come in at around 1000 watts including the pump and skimmer. Yikes!
That's great. It sounds like the market should take care of this, without the government having to get involved.
That was the point I made in post #25. We needed no law to take us from glass tubes to solid state in our TVs and radios, just good old innovation. And that is the way it should be. Come up with a better product that is cheaper for the consumer, and it will replace the old product on it’s own. You don’t need D.C. forcing your hand with news laws.
...and you can just forget about using an EZ Bake oven.
Incandescents are made in USA.
I try to avoid supporting the Peoples' Liberation Army.
Don't worry -- as soon as China determines they've got us sufficiently boxed in that they can send the balloon up, the first thing they'll do is cut off our supply of "stuff."
Can you imagine how WWII would have ended up if the USA was dependent on the Third Reich for exports of everything from food to tools to machinery to...
We are the perfect enemy (and that's the term China uses for us in their gov/mil literature -- "the enemy") -- we've made ourselves completely dependent on them -- and, in the process, enriched them, AND made ourselves into a debtor to them.
Who, even a few short years ago, would have in his wildest dreams imagined that we would have singlehandely taken the most backward, decrepit communist hellhole on earth, and turned it into a superpower -- economic and military -- while at the same time, making ourselves totally dependent on them?
It's beyond madness. If it was fiction, just a few years ago, it would have been rejected as too implausible even FOR fiction.
So, don't worry about supporting the PLA. Once they tell the COSCO ships to turn around, you won't be buying any Chinese lightbulbs. Or any Chinese anything. Or ANY anything.
After a month or so, they'll be able to issue terms of surrender without firing a shot. That's what a great enemy we are for them.
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