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Post by flyboyut on Jun 30, 2018 16:53:15 GMT -5
No worries about bulbs..... When they started to play games with the good ol bulbs we went out and bought a bunch of the good ones (incandescent), We will probably never live long enough to use them all up.
I dont care what people say about the CFL's or the LED's - the old fashioned ones still put out the light I want.
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Post by mullingspices on Jul 1, 2018 21:24:56 GMT -5
To me they're good if they work, bad if they don't. I still like the old fashioned ones, though. The light from modern style bulbs is not the same.
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Post by flyboyut on Aug 2, 2018 16:25:19 GMT -5
I heard that the newest led bulbs have the "warm" light tones of the old bulbs. You just have to read the packages at the store. Warm bulbs are about 2000K and the superwhite light ones are the high K bulbs like 6000K.
But being an old crot like ah is ----- I'm still glad we have a large stock of the bulbs I really like.....
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Post by dotot on Aug 2, 2018 21:29:26 GMT -5
No worries about bulbs..... When they started to play games with the good ol bulbs we went out and bought a bunch of the good ones (incandescent), We will probably never live long enough to use them all up.
Yes, me too flyboyut. Back then I was listening to Glen Beck before he went loony toons and I still have 3 cases in the basement. 100, 75, and 60 watt. I did buy a new LED desk light. I hated it so I sold it on marketplace.
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Post by reb on Aug 22, 2018 9:41:40 GMT -5
I use the cfl bulbs. Still have them. I rarely use the incandescent bulbs anymore, except for some nightlights we have when grandchildren stay over. Will likely pick sume led's up when are supply go out.
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Post by CampKohler (Sacramento CA) on Aug 22, 2018 19:47:39 GMT -5
I get the warm LED bulbs at the 99¢ Only stores. I have had only one flake out on me. I like to be able to leave them on guilt free when I choose. I also like that the LEDs don't break like the CFLs do should a lamp fall over, etc. I reserve my large CFL collection for outdoors, where they stay on 24/7 (any photocells to shut them off at night consume as much or more than the bulbs, so why bother?). I expect I won't use them up before I get used up.
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Post by Interesting on Aug 22, 2018 21:53:33 GMT -5
The photocell circuits use less than 1W when the photocell is lit.
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Post by Interesting on Nov 11, 2018 1:34:11 GMT -5
I don't know why I bothered. I had a Lights of America CFL burn out. Yep, dead as a doornail. This was well after 10 years after I bought it, but I think the number of hours it had actually been lit was not very high - thousands of hours but not the 10K hours it quoted. Anyway I tore it apart. Lo and behold, one of the tube filaments bit it. The tube was somewhat grayed/blackened.
The ballast? Well, that's the question. It did not short out it seems. So I hooked it up to a F15T8 bulb...
IT LIT!
So I had this old magnetically ballasted portable light fixture. It's one of these typical "blink, blink, light!" fixtures. I ripped out the starter and the magnetic ballast and jury rigged the CFL ballast in...
It works! And it lights up almost instantly!
Plugged it into my Kill-a-Watt... Hmm... 14W (23VA, its PF rots). This is a bit low, which isn't a great sign. The original lamp was a 20W, and the F15T8 is, well, a 15W. Nevertheless it is fairly bright, can't tell if it's as bright as it was before, but no flickering at all now as well as it being virtually instant start.
It's still no LED, but one less magnetic ballast which I despise...
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Post by edindetroit on Mar 12, 2019 11:59:37 GMT -5
mostly using CFLs until they burn out, then swap with LED. Oddly enough I have two "energy saving" bulbs that generate RFI: one a LED, other a CFL. All my other CFLs and LEDs are fairly quiet and I don't hear them on my 11m (i.e. CB) radio. These two bulbs cause annoying noise. I swapped out all our CFL bulbs for LED a few years ago. I put the CFL bulbs in ceiling fixtures at my mom's house when we were selling it to get rid of them.
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