DH Spent the morning at the State Fair and he talked to beekeepers. He learned other interesting facts about bees but I thought this one was the most useful because it’s one I run into and I’ve wondered about it.Originally Posted by razz
DH Spent the morning at the State Fair and he talked to beekeepers. He learned other interesting facts about bees but I thought this one was the most useful because it’s one I run into and I’ve wondered about it.
I am still trying to educate myself about light bulbs. The LEDs flicker. I am returning some to the store tomorrow. I miss the good old days when there was one kind, you screwed it in, and it worked well.
Tell me what you learn because it’s finally dawning on me that I cannot get incandescent lights. Is that right, I can’t buy incandescent lightbulbs at all? Do I have to hoard the supply I have?
Why would you want incandescent bulbs? I love my LED sunlight bulbs - efficient and wonderful light.
As Cicero said, “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”
I haven't really looked for incandescents (because I thought the LEDs would save me money) but I do hear they are now very hard to come by. The LEDs are finicky and don't last as long as we are told they do. They flicker. They don't like being in enclosed light fixtures. They don't like dimmers. They are overrated and high maintenance. There might be some good ones - my son put a couple in one fixture and they work fine - but the print on them is so small I can't read it, and I won't find out from him now the results of what are probably dozens of hours researching them. I don't have that type of time/patience.
And LEDs burn out quickly if they are not in their perfect newly wired with up to date transformered house, so they cost you more, not less. The high cost of the bulbs with their short life negates any energy savings on your electric bill. Lights never were a big user of electricity in homes. Maybe in a marijuana facility.
Because the led lights are creepy.
I hear there are warm ones, but I don’t know how to find them.
I guess we just started using LED lights recently. I don’t know I don’t pay much attention to lightbulbs that is DHS department. But I needed some lights replaced and I bought LED light bulbs not paying attention to what they were and Jeppy is right, one of them is already flickering and flickering. What a pain in the ass.
When I finished 2400 sq ft of basement space 25 years ago I installed a little more than two dozen recessed light fixtures for general lighting in the space with switches controlling 5 different lighting zones. Over the next 20 years it seemed like every time I went down there one or more of the incandescent bulbs had burned out. I replaced them all with LED's about 5 years ago and haven't lost one yet.
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler." ~ Albert Einstein
LEDs in my experience last pretty much forever and ever and never die. New wiring? I suppose that's relative, this is a 50s or 60s era building. So "new" hmm ... by some definition of new? And they are warm color LEDs.
I do have a few incandescents, that I use for more accurate lighting to check myself in the mirror, to see if I look remotely presentable I suppose. But yea most of the bulbs are LED, I never bothered with florescents much, I used incadescents and then started using more and more LED lighting, until it was most of it.
Trees don't grow on money
When my uncle heard incandescent bulbs may not be around anymore, he stockpiled a LOT of them. In his experience, everything he likes gets discontinued and he didn't want bulbs to be one of those things.
I thought CFLs were ugly but they always worked fine for me and I still have some in some fixtures.
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