Congress puts hold on incandescent light bulb ban.
Congress overturns incandescent light bulb ban - Washington Times
Congress overturns incandescent light bulb ban - Washington Times
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Congress put's light bulb ban on hold
- Thread starter Captain Kilowatt
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Strange just today a fellow worker brought up the subject and my response was oh well I'll just start buying the new diode style.
Now I don't have to worry about the diodes.
Now I don't have to worry about the diodes.
Speaking of the LED lamps, I was looking at the LED equivalent of a 100 watt flood lamp bulb today for $44.95. Yes, $44.95!!!!!!! and this was at Walmart. The hell with being green. I turned green at the thought of spending $44.95 for a single flood lamp.The average price of a normal LED replacement bulb is running around $8-11 each.
Why is it to bad and don't you mean out with the new and in with the old?
I suppose. I do like the old bulbs but there robbing my wallet. Everytime I turn one on all I see is money signs burning away
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I suppose. I do like the old bulbs but there robbing my wallet. Everytime I turn one on all I see is money signs burning away
Sent from Outerspace, on the DarkSide of X.
I'm gonna buy up a lifetime supply of those buggers so I won't have to go through this type of stress ever again.
We prefer candles. That's why we never wired the house for electricity in the first place.
I didn't know Amish people used CB.
I suppose. I do like the old bulbs but there robbing my wallet. Everytime I turn one on all I see is money signs burning away
Sent from Outerspace, on the DarkSide of X.
Lights are the least of my worries when it comes to my power bill. When you figure out the actual cost of running lights, unless yopu leave them all on all the time, it's a small percentage of the total power bill. Compare that to the purchase cost of the new bulbs and the payback is a long time not to mention the hazardous waste problem with the CFL bulbs. I put CFL's in my unheated storage barn/workshop and hate them. When cold they look like candles when first turned on and take several minutes before they emit white light.
I bought two cases of regular light bulbs about 10 years ago. They were 130 vac instead of 120 vac, there's a lot of fluctuation here at times. I think I'm down to the last 4-pack now, time to get more. Wasted heat? Maybe, but at least I can see!
We use those curly bulbs at work, have to, no choice. They are the absolute pits. People tend to reach up and unscrew them most days, more common than you'd think. They do have a guarantee, but just how much is that guarantee worth if you have to take advantage of it very often? And then there's the 'clean up' if one should happen to break. Being a commercial business, you have to go by OSHA regs about that, and you DON'T wanna know what those are. As in evacuating the building until the area around that breakage is cleaned, then aired (mercury). Yeah, right, you bet!
I just happen to run across one of those LED bulbs that would replace those curly ones, works very nicely, no flicker, about the same amount of light produced. The 'catch' with those is the cost, $20 for one bulb? Counted the number of bulbs in the 'front' portion of the work place. How about 58 of them at $20 a shot. ... Yep, sure is economical! (I took my bulb home!) Three of those LED bulbs means a case of regular light bulbs. Guess which I'm gonna buy??
- 'Doc
We use those curly bulbs at work, have to, no choice. They are the absolute pits. People tend to reach up and unscrew them most days, more common than you'd think. They do have a guarantee, but just how much is that guarantee worth if you have to take advantage of it very often? And then there's the 'clean up' if one should happen to break. Being a commercial business, you have to go by OSHA regs about that, and you DON'T wanna know what those are. As in evacuating the building until the area around that breakage is cleaned, then aired (mercury). Yeah, right, you bet!
I just happen to run across one of those LED bulbs that would replace those curly ones, works very nicely, no flicker, about the same amount of light produced. The 'catch' with those is the cost, $20 for one bulb? Counted the number of bulbs in the 'front' portion of the work place. How about 58 of them at $20 a shot. ... Yep, sure is economical! (I took my bulb home!) Three of those LED bulbs means a case of regular light bulbs. Guess which I'm gonna buy??
- 'Doc
I didn't know Amish people used CB.
Well you learned something new today, didn't you.
What is hard on us though is sitting here turning this hand crank to generate enough "Home-made" electricity to keep the PC, monitors, switch, router and modem running! :laugh: