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Godfather Politics ^ | 7-27-12 | Giacomo

[miele man]

In this instance, voltage isn’t the problem. The transformers were recently checked. The lady I was talking with who had a similar issue as me lives 30 miles away and is with a different power company. Numerous people have had problems with bulbs made in the last two or three years.

Thanks for your reply though.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

“I played with mercury balls from broken thermometers as a child...”

I had several pounds of mercury when I was a kid (do not remember the source) and we played with it. Made penneys look like dimes...etc...

I am in my mid 70’s and in good health. I use the CFL bulbs in some outside applications, and they are fine...the ones I have have lasted many years, some even burning and never being turned off.

The incandesent bulb can last a long time. It is finicy, but I have had them last several years burning but never being turned off.

There is another really shitty edict from the govt, it has to do with toilets, and how much water can be used for a flush. Have you not all noticed that it often takes two flushes to do what one flush did with the old toilets?

It is high time we delegated our Congress Critters to working in Washington no more than 3 months out of the year, and for the other 9 months return home to their farms or factory jobs or to their lawyering (til we git rid of all the lawyers in Congress), and make sure that there be term limits to prevent Congressional Careers.

[Right Wing Assault]

When I have a bad headache I can see the flashing from the fluorescent bulbs and tubes and it hurts my eyes. Most people don’t know that fluorescent bulbs don’t provide a constant light but instead flash at a rate of sixty times per second (60Hz).

The old straight tube fluorescents that have been in offices and school since the 50s and 60s flickered at 120 Hz, twice per cycle.

Some earlier CFL flickered when they were turned on but the newest CFL bulbs use high frequency electronic ballasts that run at 10,000 to 40,000 Hz. The time between each cycle is so short that the fluorescent powder in the tube does not have time to dim. In other words, they do not flicker. They provide constant light.

Even the old style bulbs have been replaced with high frequency ballast fixtures that do not flicker.

The thing about technology is that early products are not perfect. As time goes on, researchers learn how to decrease those various imperfections considerably. The same is happening with CFLs, but no doubt they will be replaced by LEDs as they are improved.

[faucetman]

“....Sales of “fluorescent lumiline lamps” commenced in 1938... By 1951 more light was produced in the United States by fluorescent lamps than by incandescent lamps....”

Did every school room you were in have fluorescent lights? Did every office you ever worked in have fluorescent lights?
Did every store you ever shopped in have fluorescent lights?
Did every factory you ever worked in have fluorescent lights?

GIVE ME A BREAK! You anti CFL people KILL ME. They DO last longer. They DO save a lot of energy. Mine haven't gone dim or given me headaches.

I don't think the government should mandate what type of bulbs you can or can't buy. If you want to be stupid, and waste energy, go ahead. If you want to replace your incandescent bulbs all the time, knock yourself out. (probably when you fall off that ladder). Your friends won't be happy either when you keep calling them over to turn the ladder around.

CFLs are GREAT! Do you anti CFL people still have dial telephones and wringer washing machines? Black & White TVs? 8 tracks? Edsels? Just wondering....

[originalbuckeye]

No. I put mercury on silver dimes, before the sandwich coins were prevalent. Really. Chemistry class, early 70’s college.

[Peet]

See if you can find the warehouse where your local electricians stock up. Not Lowes/Home Depot, the real one.

Find their commercial duty 130V (yes, 130, not a typo) bulbs (usually by the case). I have bulbs put in when the house was built in 2001 still in place. The only ones I have replaced were one in a bathroom fixture that was arcing, and a couple O/D floods in a bad motion detector (replace the dectector and haven’t blown a bulb since). With the 130v bulbs you’ll need a 75W where a 60W 120V would do, 100W for 75W and so on.

Nothing kills a bulb faster than arcing[1], so check your sockets to see if the center terminal is pressed flat. If I find them all the way down I TURN OFF THE LAMP (hit the breaker if you’re uncomfortable around electricity, but switch off is really enough). Take a small dental pick or a straightened paper clip with a little hook on the end. Get under the socket’s center terminal and pull it up JUST A TINY BIT — just enough so it has some “spring” against the center terminal of the bulb. Needless to say, if you HEAR crackling/arcing at any time fix or replace the socket.

P.

[1] Well, impact will, but my wife doesn’t know about the bulb I broke moving large furniture and I ain’t admitting to it. :-)

[miele man]

Thank you very much, Peet, for your suggestions. Much appreciated. I shall certainly do so.

[Axenolith]

I meant that to be in the general...

Anyways, why would you rub it on silver dimes? Was it a self dentistry week in that chem class? ;-)

They stay shiny even after 5+ decades in the ground!

http://home.earthlink.net/~axenolith/2-14-09b.jpg

Or 10... :-)

http://home.earthlink.net/~axenolith/DecBarbera.jpg

For the most part, if you’re near saline water/soil, they’ll get ratty, but that runs maybe 10% max on finds where I usually hunt.