Lightbulbs are technology What should I buy if I want to fall

>>56998397
Just get any lamp you like. There are LED light bulbs available for all common sockets.

these are pretty nice https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Mi-Light-Dimmable-GU10-E27-PAR30-Led-Bulb-Lamp-4W-6W-9W-MiLight-2-4G-Wireless/32585124145.html?spm=2114.01010208.3.28.KFE2Ub&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_5_10056_10065_10068_10055_10054_10069_10059_9911_10073_10017_10070_10060_10061_10052_10062_10053_10050_10051,searchweb201603_1&btsid=82865735-247d-478f-b9a3-8adbe96c6849

>>56998431
Please consider sanitizing your links in the future.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Mi-Light-Dimmable-GU10-E27-PAR30-Led-Bulb-Lamp-4W-6W-9W-MiLight-2-4G-Wireless/32585124145.html

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long live incandescent

>>56998599
very comfy dubs-san

>>56998599
This, fuck CCFL and fuck LEDs.
Damn things are giving me a headache, and i have yet to find a LED light without horrible whining noise.

>>56998518
>>56998431
Don't buy cheap chinkshit for light bulbs, they can overheat and cause a fire.

Buy LED bulbs from reputable brands like Philips, Osram/Sylvania, GE, Cree, Feit, etc...

LED bulbs are comfy as fuck, I like their light better than incandescents

Currently have 2 Sylvania LED bulbs, and 2 Philips LED bulbs

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>buy Hyperikon LED bulbs from Amazon
>Energy Star certified! UL certified!
>CRI >90 and R9 >50
>uses only 9W for 850 lumens
so I thought it was a great idea to buy this

but it overheated and gave off that burning plastic/electronic smell

Fucking returned that shit, stick with big brands for a reason. Energy Star certification is a meme, they test the prototypes not the actual ones on market.

>>56998679
>without horrible whining noise.
That's the only real problems with led bulbs desu, and it's thankfully a non-issue with closed enclosures. They otherwise cost a lot less v.s. lifespan, use fuckall electricity, and aren't a massive health hazard. Plus, you can use your phone to change the brightness, how cool is that?
The only good option for non-closed enclosures is incandescent still, though, too bad that shit's literally illegal.

>>56998729
Didn't plan on buying chinkshit

It probably doesn't even meet their 50000 hour advertised life and wireless control is a gimmick

>>56998883
>The only good option for non-closed enclosures is incandescent still, though
no it's not. just fuck my electricity consumption up

Unless you're a real autist with 20k hearing, you're probably not gonna notice any buzzing even if there is. It is less noticeable than most phone or laptop chargers buzzing

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>>56998658
>>56998679
What's pissing me the fuck off is the government is trying to ban them yet they have no mercury and don't have UV emission. And don't get me started with EMI that the new bulbs have which also have adverse health effects, as you mentioned.

>>56998934
(You)

>>56998934
fuck off shill, look up EMI and health

>>56998883
>Plus, you can use your phone to change the brightness
Great, more shit in my home some bored russian kid can fuck with.
Lets see if he can blink FUCK YOU in morse code.

>>56998978
>look up EMI and health
As if no other electronic devices emit EMI?

Stop trying to bring your propaganda here

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>>56998599
>>56998938

why not get LED filament?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfT9w8gVz9Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NffhdAz9pc4

>>56998729
Cree doesn't make anything but LEDs. LEDs are too directional unless you have a downward facing lamp.

>>56998802
>Energy Star certification is a meme
No, it isn't. It just doesn't matter when it's faked.

>>56999086
>It just doesn't matter when it's faked
Well, that's how it is for most small companies though. So it definitely is just a meme

>>56999028
see
>>56998679

They still flicker.

>>56999112
>Well, that's how it is for most Chinese companies though.

>>56999151
Lol there are more than enough LED bulbs that do not flicker or buzz

You sound like a /pol/ hillbilly who's sticking with incandescents for no reason

>>56999165
Not necessarily Chinese, Hyperikon is an American company

>>56999151
leds will flicker and buzz if you buy the cheap shitty ones

buy quality

>>56999179
>Hyperikon is an American company
Yea, but the Chinkshit copies aren't.

>>56999003
It's not internet-connected, retard.

>>56999197
Exactly, he's buying low quality and blaming it on the entire technology

>>56999179
Why should we be forced to use something we don't want at a cost we don't need?

>>56999302
i dont think thats teh arguement that he was trying to make

>>56998978
And yet you're not instantly killed when exposed to a 1.5T magnetic field in an MRI machine.

All electronics emit electromagnetic radiation. Not in any harmful wavelength that can interact with you in any way. About the only thing strong non ionising radio waves can do is produced localized heating effects.

>>56999302
Stick with incandescents if you like, sure, but dumb to just call off the entire LED bulb technology because of your opinions

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LED is superior technology and is getting cheaper and better every year.

Just bought two SMD2835 12W 6500K LED bulbs for $5/piece for my marihuana microgrowery experiments.

Both bulbs together consume 24W max while emitting minimum heat and are brighter than 150W traditional bulbs

Not to mention they are also rated 25 000H

I put a LED light in one of my kitchen lamps that always left on as it lights up both the kitchen and the hallway, it has been 4 years now of 24/7 running and the thing still works just fine.
That alone makes me love them, and now i don't use anything else.

But like most things the cheapest ones are better left alone, i had two cheap ones start making a horrible whining noise after a few months and then die shortly after.

>>56999521
now check if they pass the pencil test

cheap chinese bulbs have capacitive voltage droppers with no smoothing and flicker at 100 Hz

Bought myself a LIFX Color bulb last week, comfy af senpai. Expensive but it's okay cause I only got one for my bedroom - the "white" bulbs are much cheaper.

>>56999365
>>56999389
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3949479/
Yes, incandescent is harmful, but the other technologies are even more harmful.

>>56998397
100w Incandecent.

>>56999684
> Article retracted due to conflict of interest
Flippity floppity, tippity toppity kek

>>56999732
They're shilling a "perfect" bulb that doesn't have any cons, but the ideas are still the same.

I have LED bulbs that are quite, cool, warm toned, and flickerless. Where the fuck are you guys getting yours from?

>>56998938
>no mercury
The amount of mercury in a CFL is negligible, and more mercury is released into the environment from the extra electricity generated to power an incandescant
>don't have UV emission
Also negligible. You get more UV exposure going for a walk outside than 8 hours under a CFL
It is a good idea to get one with a warm colour tone though if you use it in a bedroom

>>56998978
>non ionising radiation is harmful
Pick up a physics textbook. You do realise light is EM waves right?

>>56999302
Environmental impact. 95% of incandescant installations waste energy for no purpose

>>57000014
s/quite/quiet

>>56999732
>>56999684
Told you he's literally /pol/ tier

>buy some LED bulbs
>put them in my bathroom
>they keep flashing when the lights are off

ok its not like i wanted to use them anyway

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What is the Redshift of lightbulbs?

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20W CFL bright white in my desk lamp with UV stuff, wasn't worth the extra 5€ desu, I don't feel any different

another 11W bright white CFL as my bedside lamp

two warm white LED lamps in the bathroom

no issues with either of them, I've bought them 2 years ago at the same time

however that one Chinese 8W LED started smoking at some point (like, after 6 months) and I chugged it into the bin

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In my bedroom, I use a flush mounted ceiling light with 3 flood lamps. I got it at Lowe's back in 2009ish, the brand is Globe Electric, model 5770001. It has a brushed nickel finish with these nice blueish yellow acrylic discs around the lamps. The rings look like glass and it has an overall nice modern appeal. I started using TCP par20 LED bulbs that generate 500 lumens at 9watts. The LED floods have a nice scatter lens that makes them look like traditional light and spreads it out evenly.

I've always been happy with this fixture and these LED bulbs since they're bright, run cool, take little power, and don't have to be replaced once a year.

>Tfw been stocking up on halogen light bulbs before they disappear because my eyes/brain can't handle LED lighting at all

My life is hell

how hard is it to make an incandescent? and is it illegal

>>57000577
halogen is pretty comfy desu, and it doesn't use as much electricity as incandescents

>>57000595
just get halogens

>>57000595
It's not illegal to make incandescent bulbs, it's illegal to sell them if they don't meet federal guidelines, except for a few exceptions. Things like heating lamps for animals can still use wasteful incandescent bulbs.

>Tfw government telling me what i can and can't light my house with even though i have serious issues with what lighting i can use

Also a lot of autists can't deal with LED etc.

Man, I wonder what will happen to all the people who can't deal with LED lights once they're all you can find. It's a very small percentage of the population but some of us just can't deal with LED lighting for some reason. It doesn't seem to be flicker related either (though that certainly makes it worse)

Hopefully there'll always be a small market for halogen bulbs etc.

>>57000595
Halogen bulbs have all of the same desirable qualities as regular incandescent but they're more efficient. They burn hotter though so they may not be suitable for every area.

>>57000812
You can't handle fluorescent lighting?

The world is running out of tungsten, its a finite resource and we don't recycle bulbs so far. Its also really inefficient, but worth it to me.

Same goes for helium. Thanks to Bill "I dun rayped her" Clinton, who released our (The US) strategic helium reserves for party balloons. Now we're almost out of that too.
>but anon helium isn't THAT useful.
Fuck you and yes it is. Leak detectors, research, coolant, rocket propellant backfill, etc, etc.
Helium is also finite because it will leak out of the atmosphere on its own. All the helium we have is He3 from reactors which is $30k per GRAM, or He2 from radioactive decay which accumulates in fossil fuel deposits. Once we're out of deposits, no more helium.

I guess someone should go out and find all those little strands of tungsten in the dumps.

>>57000948
>Once we're out of deposits, no more helium.
Shit I suddenly feel bad for all those funny voice sessions we had as kids.

>using ANYTHING but phillips

KYS

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>>57001001
Osram/Sylvania is good too. GE is shit
>pic related

>>57000903
Not him but atrocious color

>>56999151
>not running his led with batteries

>>57001091
how bout luminus?

>>56999179
>You sound like a /pol/ hillbilly

And you sound like a anti-/pol/ fucktard who ignores the fact that intelligence is genetic. What's your point?

>>57001488
I'm sure genetics would save your IQ if you were hit in the head with a metal pole
fucking retard

>>57001134
Luminus I'm not too sure, but Costco carries them so they must be okay

>>57001100
That entirely depends on the type though.

>>57001488
My point is you're calling all LED bulbs shit because of your limited anecdote

>>57001488
>being on /g/
>still using incandescent bulbs

>>57001624
>being on /g/
>still using mechanical watches

>>57001001
Cree is fucking great. All the Philips LEDs I've bought have had shit coverage.

>>57000577
You're just not accustomed to going outdoors. NEETs are more sensitive to lights.

>>57001678
Cree is shit at making light bulbs, they have a high failure rate

Philips LED bulbs are great

Hoping to buy the new 2016 Cree "SA19" LED bulbs soon

>>57001712


Philips led is fucking trash on me, always ded like less in 2 years, osram is more superior got mine still running for 12/7 for 5 years now.

>>57001765
Which ones did you use?

Yeah osram is good too. I have one of the 60w equivalent non-dimmable 2700k ones, it puts out the comfiest 2700k light I've ever seen in a light bulb. That's including various CFLs and even incandescent bulbs

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>>57001488
>intelligence is genetic
The entire human species has less genetic diversity than a single troop of chimpanzees.

>>56998679
>yet to find a LED light without horrible whining noise

LEDs don't make any noise it's the caps, lowest quality fastest to blow up caps.

>>57001712
>Cree is shit at making light bulbs
Because they don't

>>57001809
>The entire human species has less genetic diversity than a single troop of chimpanzees.
Source

>>57001895
>they don't
Uhh they make LED light bulbs, what are you implying?

I got some LED bulbs they sell at Ikea, they were also on sale for 50% off, I paid like 9 bucks for three 6W bulbs. They still work after a year of heavy use.

>>57000996
Nah at least you enjoyed it. Think about all the balloons that just got released into air and nobody even remembers them.

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>>56999521

>>56999239
>It's not internet-connected, retard.

The bulb may not be, but it is connected wirelessly to your phone or your local network, which are both connected to the net.

Putting wireless in every goddamn thing is the most retarded thing imaginable.

>>57002402
> Putting wireless in every goddamn thing is the most retarded thing imaginable.
So much this, holy shit. I've only bought into the LED bulb meme and it makes me uncomfortable, I don't know how people with "smart homes" do it. My bulb has the option of linking it to your account so you can control it remotely, through some web interface/API. I haven't enabled that feature but I still feel like the bulb is likely vulnerable. At least it's just a bulb I guess.

LED bulbs are okay. The thing I like the most about them, is that because of their lower power usage, you can put more powerful lamps in the same socket.

Like, if a led bulb uses 3W power with equal light to a 30W incandescent, then I can get a LED bulb that uses ~30W power but is 5x brighter. Allows me to light the fuck up bigger rooms that would normally have 4-bulb lightning. Or just make dimly lit places have way more light.

The only thing I hate is that I can't control their output the same way as with older bulbs, using the same variable power switch I have. So in my own room I still have to use older type bulbs (halogen, mostly).

Also, halogen kicks ass. It doubles as a bug catcher too, it's awesome - my main room lamp is a 300W halogen stick, with a protective glass sheet over it, any bug that comes even near gets instant crispy fried.

>>56998599
What is the correct name for these long filament lamps?

>>56999521
FUCK OFF JUNKIE DEGENERATE!

/g/ is a StraightEdge board you disgusting looser.

Please kill yourself before your degenerate addictions get the better of you and you wind up stealing or killing to support them.

>>57001686
Unfortunately this isn't the case I don't spend that much time inside and my work requires me to be outside around 8 hours a day ish

I just have some fucked overly sensitive eyes/brain

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>>57002619
edison style

I was really worried when the EU outlawed incandescents, since I only had known CFLs, and those make a horrible light for anything but offices, and was contemplating stocking up a lifetime supply of bulbs, but then I just got me some cheap LED lights from IKEA, and holy shit are those amazing!

almost the same comfy light as normal bulbs, but longer lifetime and lower energy use.

The only joke about the whole "energy saving" stuff is that I know simply have to produce those 300W of heat they used to emmit in my living room with my heater, in 9 out of 12 months of the year…

>>57000595
>how hard is it to make an incandescent?

Ridiculously easy. https://youtu.be/v0ES9TKAf_4?t=3m28s

Where do I buy E27 colored LED light bulbs controlled via bluetooth, in Europe?

>>56998599
>>56999389
are incandescent bulbs have longer life time?

>>57002881
if they are easy to make does it mean theyre cheap

I just have some $3 Walmart GE LEDs never had any issues with them.

>>57002625
Straight edge. Real cool.

>>57003059
Amazon

>>57002402
Lol you do realize you have to get a "connected" LED bulb for that, most LED bulbs don't have it.

You're just fear mongering, stay with your incandescents if you like. No one forced you to use LED bulbs

>>57003061
>are incandescent bulbs have longer life time?

Dramatically less. In ideal circumstances, they'll last about 1/5 as long as LED.

>if they are easy to make does it mean theyre cheap

Not if you don't have the right equipment. And the coiled coils of tungsten are significantly more efficient than anything you'd be able to make in your home. And again, LED's are significantly more efficient than the best tungsten-halogens on the market. It's something you would do as a curiosity.

It would be far cheaper to just go out and buy a crate of GE Reveal (or other high-quality) halogens to last your lifetime.

>>57002813
>since I only had known CFLs, and those make a horrible light for anything but offices
You do realize you can get them in different color temperatures. Holy shit.

>>56998397
>led bulb have shit lighting angles,and barely light up the room like a ccfl

fuck led

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>>57003246
>You do realize you can get them in different color temperatures.

But the highest CRI you'll get with fluorescent is around 80. Regardless of color temperature.

>>57003284
The standard CFL has a CRI of around 82 these days. Okay so we were talking about actual lighting quality here

Not sure if the IKEA LED bulbs are particularly better with CRI and R9? Are they?

>>57003151
find one that meets my criteria please

>>57003059
>Bluetooth-controllable lightbulbs
Literally why

>>57003353
how else would you control them, let them onto your wifi?

>>57003364
With a light switch. Flip up to turn on, flip down to turn off.

>>57003383
wow okay just disregard the color part.

>>57003303
>Not sure if the IKEA LED bulbs are particularly better with CRI and R9?

They're probably garbage. But if you use all the same bulbs in your home then you'll adjust and it won't seem that bad.

Note that some manufacturers bump up the R9 values and it ends up giving the light they produce a really pinkish look that appears unnatural next to a typical halogen. But it helps increase the measured CRI value, which they can throw in their marketing.

There's an industry group (IES) trying to replace CRI with a standard of measurement called TM-30. But it's an American standard, and the international standards body that ratifies these things never pays attention to anything submitted by the United States.

>>57003334
>find one that meets my criteria please

Choke to death on your own genitalia.

>>57003364
>how else would you control them, let them onto your wifi?

WiFi is the most common communications platform for smart bulbs.

>>57003389
>wow okay just disregard the color part

Just go to the fucking Apple Store and buy some fucking overpriced Hue bulbs. Jesus.

>>57003463
>Note that some manufacturers bump up the R9 values and it ends up giving the light they produce a really pinkish look that appears unnatural next to a typical halogen.
Yeah that's what I've noticed with my Hyperikon LED bulbs that I had (before returning them because they were overheating and smelling burnt). Pinks and reds looked way too saturated, when it doesn't look like that under natural light.

>>57003463
Calm down you asshat, And don't let random garbage devices such as light bulbs onto your home wifi unless you have a special setup for it, you're just asking for security breaches.

>implying anyone actually has the money to buy connected LED bulbs

Why are we still using the original screw socket designed by Edison more than a hundred years ago?
Can we really not come up with something better?

>>56998397
Probably a LED bulb, I dunno.

>>57003226
>Lol you do realize you have to get a "connected" LED bulb for that, most LED bulbs don't have it.

Good. None of them should have it.

>You're just fear mongering, stay with your incandescents if you like. No one forced you to use LED bulbs

... I AM using led bulbs; I really like them infact, other than that they are not dimmable.

I just don't like how they put wireless connectivity and internet in everything that should not have it. No, I do not want my fridge or my light bulbs controlled via wifi, thank you.

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>>57003529

GU-24 is supposed to be the new standard in California. In fact, you can't have a hard wired fixture with an E26 screw type socket. But good luck finding any GU-24 bulbs that aren't CFL. There are still only a few bi-pin LED A lamps on the market.

Basically, they wrote the energy code thinking that CFL would be the new standard. But then LED came along and now all the innovation, and profit, is in screw-type retrofits. Any new construction is inevitably using integral LED sources. So GU-24 is going to basically be leapfrogged and forgotten.

That whole smart bulb wifi bullshit grinds my gears tho.

Surely there's a better way.

>>57003529
Don't give Apple any ideas. They'll create bulbs using the Thunderbolt or Lightning interface.

Samsung, desperate to come up with fresh ideas, will do the same thing except with USB3 (until they get sued for starting several housefires).

>>57003228
>Dramatically less. In ideal circumstances, they'll last about 1/5 as long as LED.

That's only because of jews owning the market though. If the bulbs work for too long, then your market will peak and you won't be able to sell as many bulbs - everyone already bought one that will work for years, so why by more? One of the first light bulb companies even went bankrupt because of that.

So they artificially limited the bulbs quality so they die much faster. That way they can keep selling a high amount of bulbs every year.

You can see the same process with LED bulbs too. The first ones on the market had 50k hours or so, as I remember, but then they moved to 20k hours, and right now I'm seeing Phillips led bulbs with only as much as 10k.

Yeah, it's still more than incandescent, but it won't be like that for long.

>>57003640
... it'll be pretty fucking interesting if we start seeing USB light sockets.

You'll be able to buy Apple Bulb Holders for only $29.99 that is actually just 2 plastic pieces grabbing the socket and the bulb together, because the weight of the bulb makes it fall out of (or bend down) the usb connector on the top of the ceiling.

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>>57003640
>They'll create bulbs using the Thunderbolt or Lightning interface.

We already have Power over Ethernet lighting.

>>57003716
That's not proprietary enough, though.

>>57003303
>Not sure if the IKEA LED bulbs are particularly better with CRI and R9? Are they?
Dont know anything about specifics, but any CFL I had made a horrible "feeling" light, even those that were supposed to be "warm" and "just like the real thing".
The IKEA LEDs on the other hand, just emmit a nice, comfy warm light. Even their cold ones are pretty OK in a living room situation.

>>57002625
Does that mean no caffeinated drinks?

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>>57003529
In the UK almost all sockets (except IKEA lamps) use bayonet caps. I don't really see why the connection method is of any particular importance

>>57003938
>i don't understand why standards matter
really guy?

>>57003981
Of course having a standard connector matters, but what actual difference does bayonet vs screw make? Neither seem broke, no need to fix them

>>56998397
Pass on the cheap led bulbs, they come with no heatsink and are hollow pill. Get ones with big ass protruding heatsinks with like a 10 year warranty.

>>57003938
in the uk it might be normal to have more than one standard, but here in north america its pure heresy

>>57004031
We do only have one standard. IKEA are just weird (my guess is that Sweden uses screw and they couldn't be bothered to change them). They sell quality LED bulbs and adaptors though

What's the best LED bulb for a small night stand lamp that uses 3 candelabra style bulbs? This thing is currently sucking down 75 watts whenever it's on, and I'd like to be able to use it more without worrying about wasting power. I looked through Amazon and right now I'm leaning towards a 3-pack of Feit bulbs for $13.99

>>57000239
I use a set of Philips hues I set to 3500K at sundown through a python script.

>>57003645
You can make incandescents last a long time by using a thicker filament or less current. The problem is that's also less efficient. It might not make sense to have a longer lasting bulb if it costs you more in electricity than replacing it does.

>>57004074
i thought it was putting some crystal on it or soemthing like that

>>57004125
http://news.mit.edu/2016/nanophotonic-incandescent-light-bulbs-0111

>>56998397
LIghtbulbs arnt anime or videogames, inb4 the autistic inbred mod bans you and deletes this thread

>>57004125
>>57004146
>proof-of-concept

Home lighting

Halogen>LED>Incadescent>TL/PL>CFL>Metal halide>carbon filament>SOX>SON

>>56998397
Don't fall for the bulb meme. Get light strips and run them all from a raspberry pi with a relay and use your phone to turn them off and on

>>57004294
sounds about right

what's so great about halogen though?

>>57004329
>Don't fall for the bulb meme. Get light strips
now you clearly don't know what you're talking about

Got one of those Hue bulbs for $25 in the Walmart clearance isle and put it in my desk lamp. It's honestly really useful.

>>57004602
huehuehuehue

>>56998938
What pisses me off is the new bulbs say shit like "60 watt replacement" but they are only as bright as a 35 or 40 watt incandescent bulb.
You have to look at the lumens rating and guess how many lumens your old bulb use to be.

Also they are fucking over incandescent, they box says .9 year or about 11 month life span, but they last only a couple months top.

I got some cheap chink 25W LED lights, should I be worried?

>>57004602
Yea, but for $25 per bulb its just not realistic.
They advertise it as color your world type of shit. Id need 7 of them in just my room in order to pull off what they advertise it as doing. I'm not spending $200 on just light bulbs for a single room.

Also wernt those things like 50 per bulb when it first came out?

>>56998938
>no mercury and don't have UV emission.
The base of incandescents are sealed with lead solder, and if they don't have good contact with the socket some of the solder can melt/vaporize from the arcing, which means you are breathing lead vapor : -)

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I really want this lamp, but it is ridiculously priced.

>>57005158
>intentional flicker
>controls on the bottom
Totally worth $800

>>57005075
its harmless a couple times right?
Ive had incandescent with holes in the solder that go all the way through.
Ive also had the curly lights break in my hand while unscrewing it.
>inb4 it gave me aids

>>57005384
>Ive also had the curly lights break in my hand

Wash your hands and don't breath the dust particles. It's not about one small exposure, but many over an extended period. The risk of cancer from one exposure is very small.

>>57005158
damn this is sexy af

>>56998397
>tfw still sticking with incandescent lamps because I don't feel like buying LEDs and having to worry about and test for flicker, whining, tints, color rendering, and light distribution patterns
>tfw incandescent just works

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>>57005303

I know right? The worst is even NFC pairing is at the bottom, so even if you do intend to control it with your phone you have to pick it up.

It's retarded, but god damn is it sexy.

They also have this one which is much cheaper, but still stupid expensive.

I really want something like one of these as a reading light.

>>57005411
Ive had americanium sitting in an open coffee pot of odd parts for a decade now

How much would I expect to pay for a good quality LED bulb? I guess it depends on how much lighting it gives off, but for the same light level, certainly there is a point where the price indicates shit quality.

>>57005630
If their light is anything like their sound.. FUCK OFF

>>57006062
Not much these days. Just get it from the big brands, like Philips, Sylvania, or Cree. It only costs like $5 per bulb these days.

>>57003529
If it works why change it?

>>57000014
The "waste" induced by incandecent is heat, which is useful to reduce your heating's bills.

I hate that most new incandescent bulbs are made so shitty that they burn out fast. Good way to push their overpriced led bullshit. Thankfully I have some soviet era bulbs left.

>>57006257
>which is useful to reduce your heating's bills
see, that one is tricky.

in most cases, it's probably more efficient you run your heater. wasted energy is wasted energy, not like incandescent bulbs were necessarily meant to be heaters. not to mention they're usually mounted on ceilings, and heat doesn't disspiate from top to bottom

however I do live in Canada. heating takes up most of my electricity bills in the winter, it's usually like twice what i pay in the summer. mostly because of the power needed to run the furnace fans

>>57003988
>Neither seem broke, no need to fix them

Fucking this

>>57006298
which brand of incandescents are you buying? fuck GE.

>>57000812
It's the blue light they emit.
I have a family member that can't used led lighting because it causes issues with their vision.

>>57006351
I was using GEs incandescent.. agree FUCK ge.
>0.9 year life span
>bulbs blow after 2 months TOPS
Got me some led bulbs, bright ones too.. never going back.

>>57006508
GE was only good back when Edison was around.

Their current products are absolute shit quality, jew cuck tier. They really don't deserve to be compared to Philips or Osram/Sylvania these days.

I've had 2 of their CFLs blow out on me for absolutely no reason.
>one: suddenly dies one day, while the house is mostly lit by Philips CFLs and never prematurely failed like that >>57001091
>two: while trying to replace that failed bulb, and looking for another GE CFL that works... another one goes out because I probably turned off the switch on and off too quick

there really is a reason why GE is sold at Walmart.

Which LED bulbs did you get BTW?

It was pretty expensive to put led in all of my light sockets but I can turn on every light in the house now and use less than a few bulbs worth of power.

The rates are about 1/10 of an incandescent and while florescent are about 1/5.

>>57006565
which led bulbs did you get?

>>56998518
Please consider sanitizing your links in the future.

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>>57006637
>https://www.aliexpress.com/item/newfagg%3E%3E%3Ecsg/32585124145.html

i meant >>>/csg/ but it sanitize


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>>57006487

They have LEDs without blue light now.

I have a fixture that can switch between blue and normal yellow-ish.

>>57006698
most LED bulbs are still made with blue LEDs that just give off the expected color with phosphor coatings

>>57006545
>(You
I had GE curly light tube things, a19 size iirc, small things.
Said it was 65 watt equvilent, they were dark as fuck.
I used them on and off for years, mostly they didnt get used because of how dark they were.
With the little use they had, the heat turned the plastic yellow, they were not in an entirely enclosed fixture, they were on the ceiling fan.

I had to use them a few weeks ago, the one facing my desk went out for no reason, if I tapped it it would work again for a minute.
I went to move the one on the right over to the socket facing my desk, did not use any force, and the glass tube shattered in my hand. Thank god I wasnt using any force.

>>57007819
Fucking GE, literally worse than chinkshit tier