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Chat => General => Topic started by: loulou on March 04, 2009, 02:23:55 pm
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If someone had let on they were going to phase out 150 and 200 watt lightbulbs i may have bulk bought. I'm going to end up living in a very dark flat.
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Lou, if you can invest in lighting, then try... http://www.ge.com/products_services/lighting.html (http://www.ge.com/products_services/lighting.html) as a starting point to research home LED lighting... You will find the cheapest suppliers are in China, thats where I have been looking to research up on LED bulbs as they seem to be leading the field in LED production and technology at the moment.
A 1 watt LED light is equal to 35~40 Watt bulb.
This is a picture of one of a batch I bought from a UK source. in the shot with it on, thats a 3v button cell, nowhere near the real operating voltage or current. So I can't wait to have one running at operational voltage & current :D
& yes, that is a £1 coin.
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150 - 200W lightbulbs! What are you lighting up? A palace?!
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my staircase.
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my staircase.
All four flights?
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No . I come in my front door, go up some stairs (about 14) then there's a little landing then turn and another 6 stairs and then I have quite a big landing at the top with a high ceiling and because there is no natural light coming in it needs a 150-200 watt bulb.
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So it's you who's responsible for global warming then? ;)
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Well a high power LED one like a 20 Watt LED will be like an Aircraft landing light. Id 1 Watt is about 35 Watts min, then we are talking about 700 Watt equivalent output.
Is that bright enough for you?
So 4 bulbs = 2.8 Kilowatts of light in 80 Watts of power consumption... Thats some power saving.
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It's the "three quarters of a day to warm up" that I don't like in those energy saving ones.
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Where as LED are "Instant On" Like a regular bulb.
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I dunno why those LCD bulbs never caught on?
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So it's you who's responsible for global warming then? ;)
Might as well be. I buy my clothes and pies from the wrong places so may as well take the blame for global warming. Oh and I don't ever recycle.
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I don't buy clothes, I walk around naked.
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It's the "three quarters of a day to warm up" that I don't like in those energy saving ones.
By the time they get bright it's time to turn them off.
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The phasing out of traditional light bulbs could cause misery for thousands who have light-sensitive skin disorders, medical experts warned yesterday.
Dr Robert Sarkany said some low-energy bulbs gave vulnerable people painful rashes and swelling.
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Thats why I am investigating LED's because they are not like these Low Energy bulbs.
I have got a close aproximation to the colour level I am looking to obtain with these LED's, one batch gives off a very cold and what I call a "Hard" white light and the others give of a very yelloish light and the two combined produce a nice warm whit like a regular light bulb.
I only now need to build a full working version and I could be turning my £189 a year lekkie bill in to something like £89 a year.
You can buy commercial versions like General Electric are producing in the US but they are very expensive at present but worth the investment if you can get high output ones.
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Dr Robert Sarkany said some low-energy bulbs gave vulnerable people painful rashes and swelling.
Oh nurse! Can you get rid of the rash but leave me the swelling?