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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Most people have already converted to LED lighting. There are a few cases where incandescent lights are still required, and people should not be hassled about it.


5 posted on 12/20/2019 11:39:13 AM PST by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: PapaBear3625
Most people have already converted to LED lighting.

There's not a single one in my house....

7 posted on 12/20/2019 11:41:08 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (Never take a centipede shopping for shoes)
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To: PapaBear3625

Exactly. I’ve mostly converted, but have a few places where every LED I’ve tried flickers. So those stay incandescent.


11 posted on 12/20/2019 11:42:21 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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I'm fine with LED lighting most of the time, but I still think incandescent bulbs are better for reading light.

I do love the story of some city replacing all of their incandescent street lights with LEDs. The energy cost savings became negated when it was determined the street lights iced over during the winter months, making them effectively useless. Seems the warmth of the incandescent bulbs kept the ice melted away from the fixtures.

I imagine the solution they comes up with to melt ice off the fixtures for the LED bulbs is going to cost the city much more in terms of engineering costs and energy costs for the solution than if they had just stayed with the incandescent bulbs.

18 posted on 12/20/2019 11:46:24 AM PST by CatOwner
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No LED’s in my house. Love the warm glow of the incandescent bulb. Plus, we were able to buy a 4-pack for a little over a dollar.
23 posted on 12/20/2019 11:54:11 AM PST by libertymaker
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I have a steel encased twin floodlight over my garage entrance c. 1963

Guess what? Almost all the new plastic LED lamps that “fit” the
socket threads don’t reach far down enough to make contact and
light - FAIL

Guess who found a box of GE replacement glass bulbs
from some other N. American nation?


54 posted on 12/20/2019 12:38:25 PM PST by Phil DiBasquette
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I have my stash to last another two or three years. Never used an LED and I hope I won’t have to!


68 posted on 12/20/2019 12:58:17 PM PST by sneakers (It's not the democraTIC party! It's the demoCRAT party!)
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So far LED has been much better than CFL. I don’t like the CFLs.


113 posted on 12/20/2019 6:54:24 PM PST by wgmalabama (Mittens is the new Juan. Go away mittens)
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