Posted on 07/28/2023 6:39:22 AM PDT by Blue Turtle
“”””What about bulbs for my old flashlights?””””
Blow your mind and replace them with led.
When I find an old flashlight that I find interesting I make it useful by using an led bulb.
Oh, the LED bulbs are great. I have two of them in my office here that are strobing away—blinking, blinking, endlessly blinking.
Eventually that could happen. I hope not to see it.
i have several that are adjustable. You pick the warmth setting you want.
I have a ton of 100 watts left..
60s are getting low
Both have been banned for quite a while now.
I’m not sure about the current “ban” as heavy duty bulbs were still legal, but more expensive.
LED’s are for the most part tolerable, other than in certain situations.. back when they first put these bans in place they were pushing CFL’s which were just absolute crap.
LED’s though, at least in my experience still haven’t gotten the “soft white” hue quite right..
sell the box they come in. bulb is free.
In case of breakage, you're instructed to evacuate the room for several hours because of mercury fumes. And you're not supposed to dispose of them in the trash for the same reasons.
There’s always a get around when it comes to the gubment edicts. There’s thinking out of the box!
They have their uses.
I, also, have a stash from years ago. When the chicken and sheep water bowls want to freeze in the winter, a 100 watt bulb in a cinder block with the water bowl set on top works well to keep water thawed in freezing temps.
The bulbs are not the issue. How I live in my own house is.
Replacing a headlight bulb with an LED usually results in blinding everyone else on the road. It’s also illegal in every state.
LED headlight bulbs are also illegal to sell and import by Federal law. They just don’t bother to enforce that law.
For general household lighting, absolutely. Maybe incandescent bulbs have their niche somewhere, but for the most part, they really are obsolete.
Maybe because it is an enclosed, glass fixture. The got very hot to the touch. We took them out because we feared they would catch on fire.
It takes two forty watt, incandescent bulbs.
I despise fluorescent bulbs even though they might work.
With regards to LEDs, I think the heat is more concentrated near the base of the bulb and therefore the socket. Most of the heat from incandescent bulbs radiates from the glass bulb. Many older sockets can only handle so much heat safely.
Incandescent light bulbs work just fine as a heating element.
Nobody here knows what a chick brooder is, but when newly hatched chicks are delivered, it was often during the late cold spell in early spring. The brooder house was unheated, and if the chicks were simply turned loose, most of them, if not all, would die of the exposure to cold. The chick brooder was a sort of galvanized iron shelter, with low skirts around the outside edge, in which one or more incandescent bulbs were mounted. There was sufficient warmth from the light (usually about a 40 watt) to keep a hundred new chicks toasty warm, and the low skirts on the brooder allowed the chicks to pass in and out to reach water and starter chick pellets or meal in feeders.
Usually had a pretty good survival rate. And eggs by August, as well as young fryers for Sunday dinner most every week.
“Nobody here knows what a chick brooder is,”
Especially in DC.
It’s in the 29th Amendment of the USC.
Never saw any blowtorch, but they just flat out stunk as lighting.
They took forever to get to full luminescence, basically if you went to pee at night, you MIGHT have a fully lit room by the time you were done peeing.
They failed far before their claims of lifespan.
They were just a lousy lousy product across the board.
All you really need to know about incandescent bans, is that the people making incandescent light bulbs were some of the biggest supports of them.
They got to turn their tired, established low margin business, where $1 got you 4 bulbs, to an industry where you are now paying at paying at a minimum $1 per bulb, and more likley 2-3 dollars (or more) per bulb to get the same actual output.
Now they claim these bulbs last 100 times as long as incandescents, but we all know this is a lie, 100,000 hours would mean the light would be on for 12 years straight without burning out, yet this is a complete fabrication.
If an LED bulb lasted 12 years without issue if left on 24/7 you wouldn’t have guys on Youtube showing you how to “fix” them by jumping over dead LED elements etc.
The incandescent bulb was legislated away.. the market did not speak and kill them... a corrupt government did what their donor class told them to do.
That doesn’t happen until after brandon is reelected.
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