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Posted on 12/20/2017 11:59:03 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
They date back to the time of Thomas Edison. They’ve provided decades and decades of warm bright light to our homes and workplaces. And they’re about go bye-bye.
Starting Jan. 1, 2018, the humble everyday incandescent light bulb will continue on its long and steady fade into our collective memory. Manufacturers will no longer make the traditional 100-watt bulb and stores will eventually sell out of current supplies. Consumers will have to choose from more efficient bulbs that use no more than 72 watts, including halogen incandescents, compact fluorescents and light-emitting diode, or LED, bulbs.
This is not the first time the state has focused its regulatory glare on what have been the brightest bulbs in our homes for more than a century. Check out this Associated Press story lede from January 2011: “Beginning Jan. 1, the state began phasing out certain energy-sucking bulbs, federal standards the rest of the country will enact next year.”
In other words, it’s deja vu all over again.
“We still have a few incandescent bulbs, but they’re being phased out,” said Dave Butts, a customer service rep at Richert Lumber, an Ace Hardware outlet in Pleasanton. “The LEDs are so much better these days and people have gotten used to them that the incandescents were going to go away anyway. They are also more expensive than the more energy-efficient LEDs, which use a fraction of the energy the traditional bulbs were using. So that means a lower PG&E bill, too.”
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
how many years does it take to recoup the cost of a $10 to $15 led bulb?
oddly enough DEMOCRAT politicians actually made law mandating the curly bulbs completely ignoring LED. ($$$ donations anyone?)
Consumers will have to choose from more efficient bulbs that use no more than 72 watts...Office Depot (the source at work) started stocking cuckoo wattages some years ago (I'm not positive that they stock them any longer, we no longer have to order bulbs) and it was explained that it was due to Calli requirements.
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I hate the CFL’s with a passion I reserve only for communists.
The LED’s are great in many ways, for lumens per watt consumed and bulb life. What I don’t like about them is that they don’t dim very well.
Same here. I hate the curly ones, but the LED are decent enough. I still have plenty of incandescent bulbs in my house though.
I bought 1000 each (100, 75, and 60 watt) of Krypton 10-year incandescent light bulbs when they first started talking about this. I’m going to bequeath what’s left when I die to my kids ... should be more than three-quarters of each.
I like the new LED bulbs in the same form factor as the traditional incandescent.
I don’t understand the resistance. they are far superior to the florescents.
“I think the “natural sunlight” emulating LEDs provide a better quality of light than any incandescent bulb I have ever used. “
Same here.
Resistance to LED is EMOTIONAL and has nothing to do with any other factor.
Get LEDs. I replaced my squiggly 5,000k bulbs which used 23 watts with 12 watt LEDs vs 100 watts for incandescent.
The light is more pleasing then the florescent bulbs and incandescent as you can get them in different shades of light from the oranger/yellowish color of incandescent to noontime light, I use 5,000k which is noontime.
Both easily out last the incandescent bulbs. The LEDs were installed May 2016 and I have yet to replace any.
The incandescent bulbs would last 2 to 3 months then the wire shatters inside with a loud pop.
The heat is gone as well so the a/c easily cools the place.
Bought mine online thru Amazon.
Color Temperature
https://cdn3.bigcommerce.com/s-dy5is/product_images/uploaded_images/color-temperature-scale.jpg?t=1440087387
https://www.energystar.gov/products/lighting_fans/light_bulbs/color_mood
I order them online
All you want on Amazon
The last time this ripple went around,
I bought three cases of light bulbs.
Still have a whole bunch.
LOL...me too; in fact, the wife and I were in the garage recently and were laughing at all the bulbs we have stored, and were wondering if our heirs would ever run out?
As LEDs got cheaper I switched every bulb in my house that I could. I recently had my kitchen ceiling redone, the o,d fluorescents pulled out, and LED can lights put in. Love the new ceiling!
I just put all new led lighting on our boat. 12 volt.
It depends how long the light is on each day, and how much you pay for electricity (a LOT in CA). A 100w bulb, replaced with a $15 LED equiv will pay for itself in 1 year, if you use it 3 hours a day, and pay $0.17/kwh.
“So that means a lower PG&E bill, too.”
Nah, they’ll jack up their rates.
“Of course, no one would smuggle them into the state...”
Probably be a felony.
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