I found a 1.3 watt bulb for $15.38. That might be worth it in electrical savings alone. They didn't specify a life span but ccranes 60,000 hours translates to 6.8 years of continuous use. I like these things for places that are just too much of a pain to change frequently. Nobody seems to provide a lumens rating.
<http://www.saveateagle.com/18-led-clr-v04.html?ovchn=OTHER&ovcpn=Froogle&ovcrn=18-LED-CLR-V04&ovtac=CMP> Whoops here is a cheaper one. $12.95 for 0.5 watt bulb. This one is rated at 100,000hours or 11.4 years. <http://store.advancedmart.com/11acsc18whle.html> On 4/12/07, b_s-wilk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
New Jersey was one of the first states to encourage its residents to switch from incandescent to fluorescent lighting by giving away fluorescent bulbs, then offering additional ones below cost. Any indication that New Jersey or other states will have incentives to switch to LEDs? $35 at C. Crane is prohibitive for a light bulb--I see they have one on sale for $15. I've been working on LED lights for outdoors, using small solar panels with rechargeable batteries. They're fairly easy to make, especially since they're being used for viral graffiti and instructions are online. I haven't seen instructions for making wired LED lights for indoors yet, but expect to see that soon in Make Magazine. Betty > The state of NJ changed over every traffic light under their control > to LEDs. As you suggested, the cost savings in power and not having > to constantly change bulbs paid for the conversion in a year. It was > one of the very few intelligent things the state has ever done. > > As the cost of LED's comes down, we are going to see more and more > use of them, where it is appropriate. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
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