When they come out with LED room lights I'll buy them. Last Spring I
converted all the incandescents in my apartment to compact fluorescents
for $30 and each one uses 26 watts for 100 watt equivalent output. Who
cares if it doesn't make short term economic sense, I have lower
electric bills and they won't have to be replaced for 5-7 years (if the
claims are acurate).
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Stan Zaske" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "The Hardware List" <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 4:17 AM
Subject: Re: [H] Gas prices
of the over 50% that we import. A better idea is to ban all
incandescent lights for compact fluorescents which only use 1/4 the
energy! There are
I thought LED's had beat out fluorescents on efficiency. Correct me if
I am wrong. Many people died at a major intersection close to my
house. People ran red lights at this intersection because they were
speeding and approached the intersection far too fast for conditions.
They did not realize the red light was there until it was too late.
Flashing caution lights to warn of a traffic light ahead were
installed several years ago. This slowed down the collisions (people
call them accidents, but rarely is a collision an accident, but the
results of negligence and easily preventable) at that dangerous
intersection. Recently they installed LED traffic lights there. Now
the flashing caution lights on approach are useless (except in fog)
because the traffic light can be seen brightly for miles against any
background.
The point here is the LED's are at least 10 times as bright as the
lights they replaced and my guess is they use 10% or less energy to
operate. LED traffic lights do not "turn" (you can see regular bulbs
dim as they go off and brighten as they come on). LED traffic lights
"snap" (quick change) and that, in itself gets your attention even if
you are 2 miles away!
I hope LED's are applicable to most all lighting applications,
especially street lights, where energy consumption is a major factor
in where street lights are installed.
Please do not laugh at me if all of your traffic lights are LED's. We
are still in the stone age here in Albany, GA and only about 15% of
our traffic lights are LED's. I recently had an LED brake light
installed on my motorcycle for safety purposes.
Chuck
