You time travel or is this some new piece of jewry masquerading as White history
@tyler are those the LED ones or actual incandescent ones? i bought some cheap incandescent ones from amazon like 2 years ago and they're still going
@tyler these were the ones i got that were surprisingly good
amazon.ca/Berelli-Vintage-Standard-Dimmable-Incandescent/dp/B09P2YDB2V
amazon.ca/Berelli-Vintage-Standard-Dimmable-Incandescent/dp/B09P2YDB2V
They have banned the sale of incandescents in my state.
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If you search not very hard, sites that specialize in selling you lightbulbs have found some nifty workarounds to get you the lightbulbs you are looking for. I am all about halogens and incandescents but my state isn't.
@tyler Is that one of those "old timey" looking light bulbs? I've got three in my ceiling fan because I like the amber glow but they also practically heat the room.
@tyler @BasedLord I’ve had the same LEDs for 10 years lol but the cheap shit ones are worse than cheap shit incandescent
@sapphire @BasedLord @tyler I have CFLs running 12 years now and LEDs at about 10. The first few generations of LED were awesome until they started making them with garbage boards with insufficient heatsinks.
@sj_zero @BasedLord @tyler @sapphire Basically just need to underpower an existing LED. Could a dimmer do the trick?
@tyler I remember buying some of those Edison bulbs when I redid a bathroom 10 years ago. They are so dark they make the room look like orange garbage. At least the real ones have a red undertone.
I wonder what would happen if someone tried to wire up a European 220v light bulb to an American 120v light socket? The active current regulation chip would presumably try to keep the current the same, and the voltage across each LED would be half, so as long as you're hitting the minimum threshold voltage, you should be driving those LEDs way less. Pick up a 100W equivalent bulb, it's suddenly putting out 50W equivalent, I'd guess you'd have a bulb that lasts more or less forever.
Or maybe not?
Or maybe not?
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@sj_zero @BasedLord @tyler @sapphire You run your 4 watt bulb at 2 watt and it lasts 4x as long. That's in Dubai where it's so hot they air condition the outside on the commercial areas... I bet actual habitable areas with temperate climates could pull much higher lifespans, and simply upgrading the heat sink might be enough to triple it. I remember my old led gen 1 and 2 bulbs had radiator fins on the neck and some of them even had a small fan in there. Weird how those ones last forever and the new ones suck...
@tyler @BasedLord @sapphire @sj_zero Planned obsolescence would be one of the first things to target under any government system that actually gave a hoot about reducing waste. Curiously absent from every "green new deal" type thing.
@sj_zero @BasedLord @tyler @BowsacNoodle @sapphire led aren't driven directly by the AC current. there's a driver that converts AC to DC for the LED. most can run on 100 to 240v the heat is mostly from the loss in power convention to DC.
@BowsacNoodle @tyler @BasedLord @sapphire @sj_zero when i'm hitler (we're gonna turn his name into a rank like rome did with caesar) i'm gonna ban planned obsolescence, if they don't design things with planned contemporaneousness IN MIND, they'll be fined all their money and executed.
The AC/DC conversion is just a bridge rectifier and some smoothing caps. They tend to be pretty minimal power draws.
Yep. Design your shit to last forever and design your shit to be repairable if it does break. 90% of things we replace would never be replaced in our lifetimes after that. "But the companies will go our of business!" maybe or maybe they can try to create stuff we actually want to buy instead of just selling us progressively worse versions of the same shit year after year.
@sj_zero @BasedLord @tyler @BowsacNoodle @sapphire I have never sold something to a client with the hope that it will break and they need to buy a new one. But the things that do break are 1/5 if the price of one's that don't. Cheap shit, buy 2. That's how it works these days.
@ned @sj_zero @BasedLord @tyler @sapphire I guess that's probably true in a lot of industries, but the cheap shit has gotten too expensive for a lot of people to be able to buy two. Kind of sucks big time.
@BowsacNoodle @sj_zero @BasedLord @tyler @sapphire I seem to recall them being easier to disassemble, too - nowadays I wonder if it’s not worthwhile to ”roll your own”.