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Offline compaqxp

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LED Bulbs
« on: December 03, 2011, 08:41:41 AM »
I was in Canadian Tire (ick) tonight because I needed light bulbs and they're the only store that sells the Halogen bulbs I use. The light bulb selection is huge but they just started carrying LED light bulbs.

Now the province (NS) is really big on LEDs, going as far as having all street lights converted to the things. They also helped make the purchase a bit more appealing as you get a 5$ rebate for every bulb you buy. (and at 50$ a bulb it's nice)

50$ could have bought me almost 10 of the regular Halogens I get but I felt like giving this a try. That was 50$ well spent in my opinion.

It gives a nice warm even light and it's easily comparable to a 60 watt incandescent (even though they only claim 40) while only consuming 9 watts. They claim it'll give 20+ years of service which I don't doubt for a second. Something else nice? I don't have to worry so much if one breaks thanks to a lack of mercury.

Forget CFLs, these are the future for lighting. All they need to do now is come down in price some.

I'll be getting more of these.


^The packing is a bit much...


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^lighting my side table and alarm clock. Can't get a good image of how much light it puts out.
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Re: LED Bulbs
« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2011, 08:54:47 AM »
Thank you for the report!
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Re: LED Bulbs
« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2011, 12:14:46 PM »
Holy cow, how old is that clock?! :tongue:
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Re: LED Bulbs
« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2011, 12:52:16 PM »
Ain't no way in hell I'm gonna spend 50 bucks on a damn light bulb unless the rebate is about 49 bucks.
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Re: LED Bulbs
« Reply #4 on: December 03, 2011, 01:23:23 PM »
Don't care for the bulb (too pricey).  The light is kind of hard to see what temperature it is without a side-by-side comparison.  I do know what little experience I've had with LED bulbs, they were sort of a blue colored light.  Yours doesn't seem to have that problem.


On the other hand, I like that clock radio!  Verrry nice!

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Re: LED Bulbs
« Reply #5 on: December 03, 2011, 02:24:24 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on December 03, 2011, 12:14:46 PM
Holy cow, how old is that clock?! :tongue:

Made it 1964 if I recall so almost 50 years old. It's a Realistic Chronomatic 10. I got it for free a few years ago.  :wink:

Best alarm clock I've ever owned.

Quote from: rich_t on December 03, 2011, 12:52:16 PM
Ain't no way in hell I'm gonna spend 50 bucks on a damn light bulb unless the rebate is about 49 bucks.

Early adapters always pay more. In 5-10 years they should be about the same cost as CFLs are now. I don't consider 50$ much for this at this point in time.

Also consider it'd be cheaper in the states like most everything.

Quote from: BattleHymn on December 03, 2011, 01:23:23 PM
Don't care for the bulb (too pricey).  The light is kind of hard to see what temperature it is without a side-by-side comparison.  I do know what little experience I've had with LED bulbs, they were sort of a blue colored light.  Yours doesn't seem to have that problem.


On the other hand, I like that clock radio!  Verrry nice!



The light is rated at 3000K and it does not have the blue colour like many do. It's a nice warm yollowish like normal incandescents.
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Re: LED Bulbs
« Reply #6 on: December 03, 2011, 02:27:15 PM »
What are those fins made from? 
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Re: LED Bulbs
« Reply #7 on: December 03, 2011, 02:29:20 PM »
Quote from: BattleHymn on December 03, 2011, 02:27:15 PM
What are those fins made from?  

Some sort of metal. The whole outside is metal and glass. It feels very well built.
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Re: LED Bulbs
« Reply #8 on: December 03, 2011, 04:02:44 PM »
Quote from: compaqxp on December 03, 2011, 02:24:24 PM
Made it 1964 if I recall so almost 50 years old. It's a Realistic Chronomatic 10. I got it for free a few years ago.  :wink:

Best alarm clock I've ever owned.

Early adapters always pay more. In 5-10 years they should be about the same cost as CFLs are now. I don't consider 50$ much for this at this point in time.

Also consider it'd be cheaper in the states like most everything.

The light is rated at 3000K and it does not have the blue colour like many do. It's a nice warm yollowish like normal incandescents.

It would cost me over 1500 dollars to replace the bulbs in my house at 50 bucks per bulb. 

No thanks.

I despise the fact that in a couple of years I will be required by law to spend about 4 bucks per bulb on those idiotic CFL bulbs.

**** all those save the planet "green" supporters.

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Re: LED Bulbs
« Reply #9 on: December 04, 2011, 05:16:33 AM »
Quote from: rich_t on December 03, 2011, 04:02:44 PM
It would cost me over 1500 dollars to replace the bulbs in my house at 50 bucks per bulb. 

No thanks.

I despise the fact that in a couple of years I will be required by law to spend about 4 bucks per bulb on those idiotic CFL bulbs.

**** all those save the planet "green" supporters.



One light bulb costs $50.00?????    GASP and choke.

Are these the same suckers that if they break one must open all doors and windows in the home for 24 hours and call in a hazmat team????   Fancy doing this in a blizzard.

For those that own them, PLEASE tell me what the advantages of them are over the normal $.50 cent bulbs we have gotten along with in the past 100+ YEARS.

 



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Re: LED Bulbs
« Reply #10 on: December 04, 2011, 07:41:24 AM »
When tornadoe or hurricanes blow through, these things will have to be reported on the damn insurance damage. That's way too costly. What gets me about the switch they are pushing here, how do think all those democrat voters ie the lower class they claim to love will be able to buy those damn things at even 4 bucks a pop? I think it's a very thinly veiled scheme to get people with less money to use less electricity. At some point people will ration themselves so as not to have to replace bulbs that often. What's next? A return to reading by candlelight?
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Re: LED Bulbs
« Reply #11 on: December 04, 2011, 12:40:41 PM »
Quote from: jtyangel on December 04, 2011, 07:41:24 AM
What's next? A return to reading by candlelight?

Can't do that! Candles produce hydrocarbons, carbon and other solids emissions.
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Re: LED Bulbs
« Reply #12 on: December 04, 2011, 01:03:28 PM »
Quote from: compaqxp on December 03, 2011, 02:29:20 PM
Some sort of metal. The whole outside is metal and glass. It feels very well built.

Well......compaq, you get a H5 for posting this (it IS interesting), and a BS for being naive enough to spend 50 bucks for a damn 40 watt light bulb.

Screw "green".......

We've purchased about a 50 years supply of standard incandescent "A" lamps in various wattages for less than you spent for one bulb......after we're gone, our children will still be using them....

Did I mention "screw green".......

Excuse me while I go out to the garage and start my 400 HP Hemi SUV, and just let it idle to burn up some additional gas........doing my part to promote "climate change"......I'll bet I can generate enough CO2 in an hour to offset 10,000 green weenies' CFL light bulbs.

P. T. Barnum was right.......

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Re: LED Bulbs
« Reply #13 on: December 04, 2011, 01:49:28 PM »
I'm with Doc on this one. Every time we go grocery shopping I toss a couple of 40 watt bulb 4-packs into the cart.
Wife always says the same thing, "more light bulbs? You've got the shelf in the hallway closet packed with those things"! I don't think she realizes I have a huge box in the loft over my blacksmith shop out back with at least three dozen more four packs in it too.

By the time I have grandkids they are going to wonder why grandpa's house has funny lights that nobody else has.

Screw the green meanies. BTW I burn coal in the forge out in the shop, filthy dirty sooty sulphur spewing smoke belching coal miner family supporting bituminous coal from the Pocahontas #2 mine in West Virginia, U.S.A.

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Re: LED Bulbs
« Reply #14 on: December 04, 2011, 02:15:05 PM »
Quote from: FreeBorn on December 04, 2011, 01:49:28 PM
I'm with Doc on this one. Every time we go grocery shopping I toss a couple of 40 watt bulb 4-packs into the cart.
Wife always says the same thing, "more light bulbs? You've got the shelf in the hallway closet packed with those things"! I don't think she realizes I have a huge box in the loft over my blacksmith shop out back with at least three dozen more four packs in it too.

By the time I have grandkids they are going to wonder why grandpa's house has funny lights that nobody else has.

Screw the green meanies. BTW I burn coal in the forge out in the shop, filthy dirty sooty sulphur spewing smoke belching coal miner family supporting bituminous coal from the Pocahontas #2 mine in West Virginia, U.S.A.


I'm waiting for Big Brother to completely change the mounting bases for these pieces of crap, so there would be no available exchanging of bulb types.
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Re: LED Bulbs
« Reply #15 on: December 04, 2011, 02:27:20 PM »
Quote from: CG6468 on December 04, 2011, 02:15:05 PM
I'm waiting for Big Brother to completely change the mounting bases for these pieces of crap, so there would be no available exchanging of bulb types.

Two points:

Lamps and lighting fixtures last nearly forever.....and...

Any base design change that congress comes up with will IMMEDIATELY be met by some creative engineer making an adaptor......the folks in DC really ain't that smart.......if they were, they wouldn't be in DC, they'd be making an honest living.....

EXAMPLE:  Back in the '90's the "green weenies" banned Mercury batteries.....overnight they rendered obsolete millions of very high-end professional cameras and light meters.  It took only six months for an adaptor to be designed and sold to correct that bit of short-sighted lunacy......

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Re: LED Bulbs
« Reply #16 on: December 04, 2011, 02:37:48 PM »
Quote from: TVDOC on December 04, 2011, 02:27:20 PM
Two points:

Lamps and lighting fixtures last nearly forever.....and...

Any base design change that congress comes up with will IMMEDIATELY be met by some creative engineer making an adaptor......the folks in DC really ain't that smart.......if they were, they wouldn't be in DC, they'd be making an honest living.....

EXAMPLE:  Back in the '90's the "green weenies" banned Mercury batteries.....overnight they rendered obsolete millions of very high-end professional cameras and light meters.  It took only six months for an adaptor to be designed and sold to correct that bit of short-sighted lunacy......

Action-----Reaction

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I know there'd be adapters within a month or two, but still............
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Re: LED Bulbs
« Reply #17 on: December 05, 2011, 10:07:15 AM »
While they're still too pricy for me, LED bulbs are available for a lot less than fifty bucks in the US.  My experience with the CFLs has not been good, lifetime for them has been extremely spotty and only a couple have lasted remarkably longer than an incandescent, mostly they have only held up two or three times as long, tops (Which at ten times the price, and the mercury content they add to the waste stream, I find totally unacceptable).  I am definitely considering LEDs for some of my less-accessible fixtures at least.   
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Re: LED Bulbs
« Reply #18 on: December 05, 2011, 10:34:11 AM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on December 05, 2011, 10:07:15 AM
While they're still too pricy for me, LED bulbs are available for a lot less than fifty bucks in the US.  My experience with the CFLs has not been good, lifetime for them has been extremely spotty and only a couple have lasted remarkably longer than an incandescent, mostly they have only held up two or three times as long, tops (Which at ten times the price, and the mercury content they add to the waste stream, I find totally unacceptable).  I am definitely considering LEDs for some of my less-accessible fixtures at least.   


We have changed out some CFL bulbs that were still working, but their light output had decreased. 

Why are LED light bulbs so expensive? Individual LEDs are not that much.  http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3060980
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Re: LED Bulbs
« Reply #19 on: December 05, 2011, 11:02:16 AM »
I saw the same bulb Compaq bought at Lowes for $15 this week.  DAT, I did buy some for the out of the way places, and the light is quite nice. 
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