[mythtv-users] [Slightly OT] solar power for all our gadgets

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Sat Mar 21 00:36:48 UTC 2009


On Friday 20 March 2009 18:29:54 Wookey wrote:
> +++ David Brodbeck [2009-03-20 16:56 -0700]:
> > On Fri, March 20, 2009 2:38 pm, John Finlay wrote:
> >
> > The ones our utility oh-so-helpfully installed in our bathroom take over
> > a minute to warm up.  Just what you want in a room you spend maybe three
> > minutes in at a time.  They also don't like being frequently switched on
> > and off, and have begun dying about six months after they were installed.
> > Color me unimpressed; I'll be replacing them with incandescent bulbs.
>
> Please don't do that. Either get some better CFLs (there are plenty),
> or consider LEDs. The best LEDs (100 lumens/W) are now more efficient
> than CFLs (40-80 lumnens/W). LEDs are instant and perfectly dimmable
> and available in a range of colour temperatures and physical formats.
> The catch is that they are much more expensive than CFLs, but energy
> consumption really does matter, and going back to incandescent really
> isn't acceptable any more (indeed it's being steadily made illegal
> here - UK).

Any CFL that behaves the way the OP described is either broken or VERY old. 
Con-ED in NYC was giving away better ones than that in 1991.

I agree that LEDs are the future. I've been looking at this site:

http://www.ledlight.com/

Costly, yes, but it's always that way with us early adopters.

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beww
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