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To: cba123

That’s backing into government mandated Chinese style Communism as usual.
First suggestions backed by media propaganda, then cutdowns of the other way, and then prison terms for those who do not conform to mandatory forced behavior.

People on FR who have said “I refuse. I won’t be buying an EV.” Until gas lines are 50 minutes long and stations are 75 miles apart and gas cars cost twice as much with government fees added. And no dealers are allowed to sell a gas car including online.

I didn’t want the light bulbs to replace regular incandescent ones until the government forced them off the shelves. Too bad for me.

Most of us notice the rooms are dimmer now. Or get so used to it now it’s like the restricted flow fawcetts and wimpy flush toilets. And street lights only light straight down in a narrow circle, not a broad lighted area of streets or sidewalks. And brake lights on vehicles have to add up a dozen or more tiny lights to sort of look like the old lights did.


31 posted on 02/16/2024 9:09:52 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: frank ballenger

I still have a healthy supply of 40/60 watt incandescent bulbs.


34 posted on 02/16/2024 11:13:35 PM PST by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TThose look good)
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To: frank ballenger

You will be happy to know that household fixtures designed to handle incandescent bulbs up to a maximum of 60 Watts operate extremely happily when fitted with LED bulbs designed to deliver “100W Equivalent” illumination.

So, you can actually get MORE light out of your old fixtures without exceeding their electrical design limits. Also, if the internal dimensions of the fixtures permit, you can go to the larger-sized A21 and get 150W equivalent units, or even go up to A23 size and get 200W equivalent units.

JUST BE CERTAIN you get 2700K bulbs or you won’t get the pleasurable glow of “warm white” light those old incandescent bulbs gave off.

I’ve put 2700K “60W equivalent” LED bulbs side-by-side with old 60W “warm white” incandescent bulbs in a multi-socket fixture, and found the characteristics of the light from each to be indistinguishable to the human eye.

As a last comment, I might consider going as high as 3000K in a Kitchen or Garage/Workshop, but any higher than that and the light gets into an unpleasantly piercing blue-white hue.


46 posted on 04/04/2024 3:25:28 PM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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