In California, at least, consumers are converting from incandescents and CFLs to LEDs so quickly that planned new power plants will be unnecessary. This is a Good Thing. Home Depot has massive displays of LED bulbs, which are now down to around $3 per (in the FunSize 3-pack). IKEA is even cheaper.
I think everything in our house is now LED except for some candelabra-size 25-W bulbs in the dining room. My wife doesn't like the look of the LED replacements in this category, but eventually they, too will go. Then our electricity consumption due to lighting will be down by 84% for the entire house. Edison would have been amazed to put his hand on a cool 10-W LED bulb that's putting our just as much light as a hot 60-W incandescent. Or maybe he would have been jealous. Wayne N6KR On Feb 2, 2016, at 3:55 PM, David Anderson <gm4...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > I was just thinking that I had removed all of the CFL bulbs from my house, > because I hate them, their horrid colour, their slow start up and that they > do not last and smoke. Then tonight my wife called me to say that the hall > light had stopped working, the last CFL in the house. No smoke, just dead. It > has hardly been used in the years we have had it. > > I have replaced all my CFLs with Halogen clear bulbs (40 watts) which we can > still get through some loophole, at least for now. I care not that they > produce some heat as well as light, as it warms the house up who we have the > lights on in the winter. I am stockpiling them. > > I have LEDs in the bathroom that don't appear to cause any noise, ironically > the 12 V halogen ones before did because of the SMPSU that they used. > > I also have a Phillips LED lamp bulb in a table lamp that is totally RF quiet. > > 73 from David GM4JJJ > >> On 2 Feb 2016, at 17:44, Ron D'Eau Claire <r...@cobi.biz> wrote: >> >> That sounds like the CFL failed as it was designed to fail. >> >> CFLs draw more current as they age. Eventually the power supply is >> overwhelmed by the current demand and fails. All the CFLs I've seen use a >> tiny (1/8 or 1/16 watt) resistor as a fuse. Before anything else gets >> overloaded enough to fail, the little resistor acts as a fuse and opens. >> But, being a resistor, it fails like a resistor often with some smell and >> brief puff of smoke. I suppose it might be possible for a flame as the >> covering burns, but that should be inside the base enclosure. I've never >> seen anything but a small puff of smoke if I am looking in that direction >> when it goes. >> >> 73, Ron AC7AC ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
