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Post by aquaduct on Dec 20, 2019 21:08:47 GMT -5
Trump's DOE is busy walking back the banning of incandescent lights. He can because Conngress never passed a law to do it in the first place. So typical.
Now if he can just kill those damn gas can spouts.
(I'm sure he'll get there, too.)
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Post by Chesapeake on Dec 20, 2019 21:26:21 GMT -5
The Salvation of the Incandescent Light would make a good title for a novel.
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Post by aquaduct on Dec 20, 2019 21:31:57 GMT -5
The Salvation of the Incandescent Light would make a good title for a novel. Great name for my first record. |
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Post by RickW on Dec 20, 2019 21:58:49 GMT -5
Better name for a band. No one would know what the hell you were talking about.
I don’t mind LEDs. Light is not so glaring now. What drives me crazy is that they don’t seem to last any longer, despite claims they would.
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Post by Rob Hanesworth on Dec 20, 2019 22:19:53 GMT -5
We have gone all LED. Have no plans to buy another incandescent bulb even if Trump returns them to the stores.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Dec 20, 2019 22:23:01 GMT -5
I like leds.
Mike
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Post by John B on Dec 20, 2019 22:38:08 GMT -5
LEDs for me too.
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Post by aquaduct on Dec 20, 2019 22:40:25 GMT -5
We've tried to work with LEDs and other crap, but being rather handy with electrical work with a wife who loves to have me do that, I've spent a fair amount of time rewiring using dimmers designed for those kinds of bulbs.
To make the story short, those switches aren't worth shit. An incandescent switch is butt simple with a big old resistor rated for 600 W+ at least. Technology that's been around since Edison.
All the other switches are rated for like 200 W with the dimmer being some kind of pulsewidth modulater that has a dial under the plate. Lasts approximately 3 months and then explodes loudly internally and needs to be replaced when the piss in your pants dries.
Never again. And the odd thing is that you can't find the normal switches in Home Depot or Lowes. I've replaced mine by contacting the manufacturer for warranty replacements which are easy to get (they seem to be readily aware of the problem).
That's your handy tech tip for your home.
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Post by Russell Letson on Dec 20, 2019 22:47:20 GMT -5
Not all incandescents were banned in the US--what was regulated was lumens/watts ratios, which affected, say, conventional 100-watt bulbs. But three-way bulbs of the kind I use in my reading lamps were exempt, and I still find four-packs of 100- and 75-watt bulbs in dollar stores. BTW, programs regulating or promoting energy-efficient lighting is common across most of the world.
I still like incandescents, partly for my reading lamps and partly--because of the waste heat--as warming devices for the cats. (A 100-watter in a clamp-on work light turns a garage loft into a kitty motel in cold weather.)
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Post by majorminor on Dec 20, 2019 22:52:58 GMT -5
If he gets the gas can reversed that’s it. I’m voting for the f****r.
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Post by Marshall on Dec 20, 2019 22:53:55 GMT -5
I still like incandescents, partly for my reading lamps and partly-- because of the waste heat--as warming devices for the cats. (A 100-watter in a clamp-on work light turns a garage loft into a kitty motel in cold weather.) Don’t forget the Easy Bake Oven. |
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Post by jdd2 on Dec 20, 2019 22:55:18 GMT -5
I think Doug said he'd still use an incandescent in his well, to keep it from freezing up. Otherwise, even he'd left them behind.
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Post by RickW on Dec 21, 2019 1:22:56 GMT -5
We've tried to work with LEDs and other crap, but being rather handy with electrical work with a wife who loves to have me do that, I've spent a fair amount of time rewiring using dimmers designed for those kinds of bulbs. To make the story short, those switches aren't worth shit. An incandescent switch is butt simple with a big old resistor rated for 600 W+ at least. Technology that's been around since Edison. All the other switches are rated for like 200 W with the dimmer being some kind of pulsewidth modulater that has a dial under the plate. Lasts approximately 3 months and then explodes loudly internally and needs to be replaced when the piss in your pants dries. Never again. And the odd thing is that you can't find the normal switches in Home Depot or Lowes. I've replaced mine by contacting the manufacturer for warranty replacements which are easy to get (they seem to be readily aware of the problem). That's your handy tech tip for your home. Interesting. I just got a bulb specifically designed to work with a dimmer, popped it into my lamp with the dimmer switch, and it works. They’re getting there. |
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Post by aquaduct on Dec 21, 2019 3:21:54 GMT -5
We've tried to work with LEDs and other crap, but being rather handy with electrical work with a wife who loves to have me do that, I've spent a fair amount of time rewiring using dimmers designed for those kinds of bulbs. To make the story short, those switches aren't worth shit. An incandescent switch is butt simple with a big old resistor rated for 600 W+ at least. Technology that's been around since Edison. All the other switches are rated for like 200 W with the dimmer being some kind of pulsewidth modulater that has a dial under the plate. Lasts approximately 3 months and then explodes loudly internally and needs to be replaced when the piss in your pants dries. Never again. And the odd thing is that you can't find the normal switches in Home Depot or Lowes. I've replaced mine by contacting the manufacturer for warranty replacements which are easy to get (they seem to be readily aware of the problem). That's your handy tech tip for your home. Interesting. I just got a bulb specifically designed to work with a dimmer, popped it into my lamp with the dimmer switch, and it works. They’re getting there. The modern dimmers are supposed to be universal, including incandescents. Incandescents and the circuitry that solely supports them are the cheapest and prettiest (according to my wife) available. The fancy dimmers are something like $25 apiece. Incandescents only are half that. I'll never use anything but incandescents again. Unless it's in the shop portion of the basement which gets good, old fluorescent tubes. |
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Post by aquaduct on Dec 21, 2019 3:24:16 GMT -5
Not all incandescents were banned in the US--what was regulated was lumens/watts ratios, which affected, say, conventional 100-watt bulbs. But three-way bulbs of the kind I use in my reading lamps were exempt, and I still find four-packs of 100- and 75-watt bulbs in dollar stores. BTW, programs regulating or promoting energy-efficient lighting is common across most of the world. I still like incandescents, partly for my reading lamps and partly-- because of the waste heat--as warming devices for the cats. (A 100-watter in a clamp-on work light turns a garage loft into a kitty motel in cold weather.) Mom always used to ask, if everyone was running off a cliff, would you? |
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Post by millring on Dec 21, 2019 6:31:13 GMT -5
I went and jumped off a bridge last night
I don’t know why, someone just told me to
Didn’t even really put up much of a fight
Now there’s seaweed between my toes
Now that I think about it
It was a pretty good dive
Pretty good form - not much splash
Now that I think about it
It was a pretty short ride
Sunk like a cannonball
I think I gained some weight
I jumped off a bridge
Cause someone told me to
Just goes to show
Don’t let anyone tell you what
To think or say or do
Just goes to show
Don’t let anyone tell you what
To think or say or do
There were tires and wires
And bicycle frames
Not many trout - fish don’t live down there
I got to thinking I must be insane
I shouldn’t have listened
This isn’t as fun as it sounds
CHORUS
And so I think that
My lesson’s been learned
Gotta be your own man -
Be just like james dean
Chalk it up to an experience earned
What an adventure - I think I broke my neck
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Post by drlj on Dec 21, 2019 9:07:57 GMT -5
We have never given up our whale oil lamps. There are still enough whales left to keep our lamps burning for a few more years.
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Post by Marshall on Dec 21, 2019 9:24:44 GMT -5
I even buy LED Christmas lights.
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Post by drlj on Dec 21, 2019 9:56:35 GMT -5
I even buy LED Christmas lights. There was my mistake. I bought LEAD lights and they weighed a ton. |
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Post by dradtke on Dec 21, 2019 10:54:15 GMT -5
LEDs are a god-send in my work. Heat is death to museum artifacts, and before LEDs lighting an artifact case took a lot of time and expense. Now we put spotlights in and forget about it.
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