Re: CON Ed - CONNING US with HIGH VOLTAGE!

 


|  You mean to tell us that you are NOT using the fluorescent
| replacements for standard incandescent bulbs yet?

Not everyone wants that crap.

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On 29 Jun 2005 03:31:48 GMT, phil-news-nospam@ipal.net Gave us:


 Not anyone wants to hear your piss and moan crap either!

  Jump on the modern, conservative bandwagon, or quit crying.

 

| On 29 Jun 2005 03:31:48 GMT, phil-news-nospam@ipal.net Gave us:
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|>Not everyone wants that crap.
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| Not anyone wants to hear your piss and moan crap either!
|
|  Jump on the modern, conservative bandwagon, or quit crying.

As long as someone is willing to manufacture decent lighting products,
I will continue to use them.  Once LEDs become truly viable (including
solving some remaining spectrum issues), I will migrate to that.  But,
until then, it will be incandescent for me.  All mercury based products
will not be permitted in my house, anyway.

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Quote:"But,
until then, it will be incandescent for me."
I agree with you.For heavily used light fixtures there are 220 V halogen
bulbs in Europe which I think are excellent.Are there any for US 110 volts?

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| Quote:"But,
| until then, it will be incandescent for me."
| I agree with you.For heavily used light fixtures there are 220 V halogen
| bulbs in Europe which I think are excellent.Are there any for US 110 volts?

There are.  I've seen available for purchase online halogen bulbs in a wide
range of voltages including: 110, 115, 120, 127, 130, 208, 220, 230, 240,
and even 277.  But I favor low voltage halogen because that allows the use
of a thicker/shorter filament for a given wattage.  Based on some general
observations (no scientific study), choosing wattage/voltage combinations
to get between 1 and 5 amps of current flowing in the filament is about the
right conditions for high temperature, long life, and better focusing of
light, given current metallurgy.  I would probably want to make most lights
about 12 or 18 watts, and simply use more of them where more illumination
is needed.  I will probably use 12 volts for most things indoors, and a mix
of 12 volt for small ground level mood lighting outdoors, and 240 or 277
volts for safety/security/flood lighting outdoors (a mix of HPS and MH).
In addition to NOT using fluorescent lighting indoors, I will also avoid
the use of the common Edison screw base, or any other kind of base where
it is possible to touch metal connected to one of the current carrying
conductors.  I understand in Europe, these kinds of light sockets are on
the way out, anyway, especially in places like Germany where the plug-in
receptacles are non-polarized (and thus you cannot be sure which wire is
getting the grounded side).

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