The one pictured is my bedroom light.
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- 34 minutes
No, I only use LEDs these days. I’m actually switching from regular LEDs to smart LEDs.
- Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish8 hours
When I bought my house in '21 most of the fixtures had already been converted to LED, I quickly swapped out most of the remaining bulbs. The only remaining flourescents are in a handful of fixtures that are very infrequently used, specifically the basement and detached garage where I can’t immediately find the ballast to replace them with LED tubes, plus one fixture in a bathroom that takes a specialty base so it’s not cost effective to replace the CFL.
I did hang onto the flourescents I replaced and I’ve swapped a couple in the basement out as they failed. Down to about 2 used flourescents to swap out then the basement will start to migrate to LED. The garage will be a slightly bigger project to rewire the fixtures for LEDs
35 minutesYou can get fluorescent style LEDs that work in the existing ballast, if you have a store near you, they should have them in stock source I used to work there
I live in an old home and there are fluorescent lights in the kitchen. Heck, I haven’t switched some incandescent light bulbs because I almost don’t switch on those lights. Maybe I should.
I use these to find what boxes contain them.
-moves old box in basement, glass breaks- yea that one had curly bulbs.
- 12 hours
Our dining table has a light fixture built out of driftwood with 6 incasdescant bulbs hanging down.
- 1 day
I still use an incandescent bulb for my front door light, because I’ve gone through like 5 LEDs and they always start flickering when it’s cold out. I don’t usually have this light on long enough to warm up properly, so a CFL’s warm up time is also a no-go.
Everything else I have is color-temperature selectable LEDs (One of my biggest annoyances I’ve seen people have, is mismatched color temperatures in the same room). I have them controlled by Zigbee at the outlet rather than having the bulbs themselves have wireless antennas.
No, but literally every bulb in my home (except the one in the oven) is an LED smart bulb with ZigBee or Matter support controlled by Home Assistant. Wouldn’t have it any other way.
That said, years ago I installed four bulbs like the ones in the picture - two warm tone, two cool tone - in an outdoor light fixture with a Shelly controller at a friend’s house. The controller uses GPS-provided time to work out the position of the sun and turns on the cool bulbs when the sun’s low on the horizon (pretty much all day during the Winter) and switches over to the warm bulbs at night. That’s been in place for at least ten years and those bulbs are still going strong, though they take a long time to start up.
- 2 days
OMG. As an old (Gen x) lighting designer who lives in CA, may God help you if you asked me this question at a party. In order not to bore you to death I’ll try to spit it out before you fall asleep. Never ask me “What is Power factor?”, All would be lost. Or for god’s sake, “What is Dark Bastard Amber?”( Rosco 03)“Are ellipsoidal fixtures most accurately called Lekos or source four?”. You could die of regretful boredom within 9 seconds". At least you’d have someone to talk to for the duration of the party
Yes. I have a handful of very beloved, non-LED bulbs and fixtures. I have to trouble the out of state family to help me smuggle these into my home. For example, “Halogen” bulbs. I have a floor standing, up firing, dimmable lamp that will transport any room immediately to the surface of the sun. Cleaning? Look out dust. It would be easy to accidentally start a fire with this lamp using the bulbs I put in it. I use it every day in my office, which is so much brighter than any room in average people’s houses. A home tour of my house always results in an “OMG It’s so bright in here, I love it!”. Me too. I think it’s sad that normies can’t have good lights or good drugs.
- 9 hours
Of course. Me too. I don’t just like bright all the time. I like control. For example in my living room, there are 17 light sources. Let’s say “bulbs” to stay out of the weeds. Nearly everyone of those 17 “bulbs” is dimmable and can be adjusted for color, or at least color temperature. One of my favorite presets is titled “chiller”. And that is exactly what it does. It “chills” you out All of the light sources are dimmed way down. None of them are set to “white”. Over here is pink, over there is amber up here is a cool blue. What it adds up to is a very dim, relaxed vibe with a ton of depth and you see everything. You can read a paper book. You can see expressions. It’s as if you were sitting on a west facing beach watching a sunset.
- 1 day
My thumbs will fall off if I answer that. I sort of answered in another response you can read about Dark Bastard Amber (Rosco 03). Power Factor is why it’s stupid to ban Halogen’s and why LEDs are not as efficient as has been claimed. A Halogen bulb has a much higher CRI and power Factor of 1, a cheap LED has a Power factor of half of that (.5). That means the cheap LED uses twice as much current as the Halogen and can’t come close to the Halogen’s CRI. In commercial applications ( Like a stadium, for example) the power company charges on Kva demand and charges extra for Power Factor. That’s because in real energy terms and on a commercial building’s bill, a building full of cheap LEDs is way more expensive than the light it provides should be. So they often have to install capacitor banks on commercial buildings. And the LED needs just as much or more copper (Wire gauge/ breaker capacity) as the Halogen. All for a much shittier quality. Sure, encourage the USE of LEDs, go for it. But that old Twaine quote applies here: “don’t ban steaks for men just because babies can’t chew them”.
- Nollij@sopuli.xyzEnglish2 days
Certain types of lighting can interfere with the radio signal to open/close. It’s kind of like how microwave popcorn always says to not use the popcorn button.
Try it and see. I’ve had a CFL and an LED in mine for years, no issues.
- 2 days
Incandescent bulbs are not “normal” any more by any definition of the word. Anything that still uses them is simply outdated.
We’ve completely switched to LEDs right when they became available. Taken together with all the other electricity savings that we have been doing, our electricity bill is 75% below what I hear from friends.
- 2 days
Until recently we had some CFLs in the light fixture in our rarely-used guest bathroom. I just painted that bathroom so while I had the fixture off the wall I went ahead and replaced the bulbs with LEDs
I suppose my car headlights and such are still halogen and I think the dash lights are mostly incandescent. The interior dome light has gotten an LED upgrade though.
The maglite I keep in my car emergency kit is still the incandescent or halogen bulb it came with when I bought it for my first car 15+ years ago, and I probably have a few more incandescent flashlights floating around in various toolboxes and such.
I think I have one string of incandescent Christmas lights still in use during the holiday.
And the light in my oven is incandescent.
Yes, but only in locations the original hasn’t broken or is in a place can’t get the led replacement in (damn you super high ceilings)
- 2 days
No, except my lava lamps take a specific filament bulb. And those just get used for parties
- 2 days
I have a case of assorted Edison base incandescent bulbs. They’re good for lots of little things like the lamp over the record player to illuminate the strobe dots on the edge of the platter.
They’re also invaluable as parts for a dim bulb tester. You really can’t do that as quickly or effectively with any other technology.
My favorite reading lamp is a tiny little 7.5w incandescent that puts out a cozy light.
