Jealous. Transported forward in time, he would have been like a kid in a candy store in the midst of all our technology.
Guy K2AV On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 7:03 PM, Wayne Burdick <[email protected]> wrote: > In California, at least, consumers are converting from incandescents and > CFLs to LEDs so quickly that planned new power plants will be unnecessary. > This is a Good Thing. Home Depot has massive displays of LED bulbs, which > are now down to around $3 per (in the FunSize 3-pack). IKEA is even cheaper. > > I think everything in our house is now LED except for some candelabra-size > 25-W bulbs in the dining room. My wife doesn't like the look of the LED > replacements in this category, but eventually they, too will go. Then our > electricity consumption due to lighting will be down by 84% for the entire > house. > > Edison would have been amazed to put his hand on a cool 10-W LED bulb > that's putting our just as much light as a hot 60-W incandescent. Or maybe > he would have been jealous. > > Wayne > N6KR > > > On Feb 2, 2016, at 3:55 PM, David Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I was just thinking that I had removed all of the CFL bulbs from my > house, because I hate them, their horrid colour, their slow start up and > that they do not last and smoke. Then tonight my wife called me to say that > the hall light had stopped working, the last CFL in the house. No smoke, > just dead. It has hardly been used in the years we have had it. > > > > I have replaced all my CFLs with Halogen clear bulbs (40 watts) which we > can still get through some loophole, at least for now. I care not that they > produce some heat as well as light, as it warms the house up who we have > the lights on in the winter. I am stockpiling them. > > > > I have LEDs in the bathroom that don't appear to cause any noise, > ironically the 12 V halogen ones before did because of the SMPSU that they > used. > > > > I also have a Phillips LED lamp bulb in a table lamp that is totally RF > quiet. > > > > 73 from David GM4JJJ > > > >> On 2 Feb 2016, at 17:44, Ron D'Eau Claire <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> That sounds like the CFL failed as it was designed to fail. > >> > >> CFLs draw more current as they age. Eventually the power supply is > >> overwhelmed by the current demand and fails. All the CFLs I've seen use > a > >> tiny (1/8 or 1/16 watt) resistor as a fuse. Before anything else gets > >> overloaded enough to fail, the little resistor acts as a fuse and opens. > >> But, being a resistor, it fails like a resistor often with some smell > and > >> brief puff of smoke. I suppose it might be possible for a flame as the > >> covering burns, but that should be inside the base enclosure. I've never > >> seen anything but a small puff of smoke if I am looking in that > direction > >> when it goes. > >> > >> 73, Ron AC7AC > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
