Lighting Tip :)
09-12-2014, 04:30 PM
#21
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Location: Western Wisconsin
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Thank you.. Heaven knows the so called "new lighting bulbs" aren't worth a darn for light. Takes twice as many to get the same light. I just got more lamps.
I'm still trying to figure out how mercury in the lightbulbs is "GREEN". They got away from that because it was a health hazard and caused issues with ground water. AND not to mention the disposal problems. Let's face it most folks are not going to make a special effort to take them to the hazardous disposal site..
I'm still trying to figure out how mercury in the lightbulbs is "GREEN". They got away from that because it was a health hazard and caused issues with ground water. AND not to mention the disposal problems. Let's face it most folks are not going to make a special effort to take them to the hazardous disposal site..
Regarding needing twice as many lamps to get the same amount of light, that issue is resolved by the original tip that was posted. You might want to go back to the beginning of this thread and check out that first post. I found it very "illuminating" (pun intended,
).
09-13-2014, 03:19 AM
#23
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I decided to do a little Googling and came up with this website:
http://www.npr.org/2014/01/28/267185...s-faq-can-help
Some of the comments about the color spectrum of newer lights is very interesting, but I am finding all of this terribly complicated! At least now I understand the wattage thing. Seems like the pros are pushing getting the same lumination (citing savings in electricity because of lower wattage) more than anything, but for me it's invaluable to find out I can get more illumination from a 60-watt fixture than was previously possible. Dh and I were looking at lamps recently, and he was complaining that they were all 60-watt lamps!
http://www.npr.org/2014/01/28/267185...s-faq-can-help
Some of the comments about the color spectrum of newer lights is very interesting, but I am finding all of this terribly complicated! At least now I understand the wattage thing. Seems like the pros are pushing getting the same lumination (citing savings in electricity because of lower wattage) more than anything, but for me it's invaluable to find out I can get more illumination from a 60-watt fixture than was previously possible. Dh and I were looking at lamps recently, and he was complaining that they were all 60-watt lamps!
09-13-2014, 05:41 AM
#25
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[QUOTE=Prism99;6885547]I decided to do a little Googling and came up with this website:
http://www.npr.org/2014/01/28/267185...s-faq-can-help
This is a good site.
My husband found an article stating that incandescent lighting is better for putting you to sleep. Your natural sleep cycles turn on better with them. Since he spends a lot of the evening and night time in his recliner, he decided to put an incandescent bulb in his new Ottlight CFL fixture. I smelled something funny, and when we found out what it was, the white plastic had already turned quite brown. The small plastic shade had melted onto the bulb. After it got cool again, he spent hours snapping the burnt plastic off with a pliers so that we could get the bulb out.
He won't do that again!
http://www.npr.org/2014/01/28/267185...s-faq-can-help
This is a good site.
My husband found an article stating that incandescent lighting is better for putting you to sleep. Your natural sleep cycles turn on better with them. Since he spends a lot of the evening and night time in his recliner, he decided to put an incandescent bulb in his new Ottlight CFL fixture. I smelled something funny, and when we found out what it was, the white plastic had already turned quite brown. The small plastic shade had melted onto the bulb. After it got cool again, he spent hours snapping the burnt plastic off with a pliers so that we could get the bulb out.
He won't do that again!
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