America’s ban on incandescent light bulbs, 16 years in the making, is finally a reality. Well, mostly.

Incandescent light bulbs are officially banned in the U.S.::America’s ban on incandescent light bulbs, 16 years in the making, is finally a reality. Well, mostly.

  • @AndrewZabar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    56•2 years ago

    I don’t know what kind of shit LEDs you’ve been buying but I’ve yet to ever have to replace one. Been using them for many years already.

    • FreemanEnglish
      18•2 years ago

      LED’s produce a lot of heat at higher “wattages”. IE: the 75w+ equivalents can throw out some heat. And if its recessed in a can or upside down on a chandelier but with a decorative covering, they will often go out due to heat. Hell I have seen some with giant heatsinks on them to try and compensate.

      I had a series of 150w LED’s i was burning through. Eventually I moved to just replace the bulb and fixture with a ceiling light like this

      LED’s are also sensitive to dirty power, probably more-so than Incandescents. I have run through some because of surges and brownouts as well.

      I generally use Phillips brand LED bulbs if it helps, but do have some others.

      Finally, the lower wattage bulbs (ie: 10-15w equivalent) will sometimes have a “pulse” to it. Dimmer LED’s also tend to do this, and you often have to tune the dimmer switch to a higher brightness for “low” to compensate.

      All that said, they are still leaps and bounds better.

      • @AndrewZabar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3•2 years ago

        Funny you mention Phillips because that’s the brand I like, too. Just recommended it to someone here in fact.

        I’m not sure what wattage my ceiling fixtures are; I’ll check.

        • FreemanEnglish
          1•2 years ago

          Yeah. they are generally my favorite as well.

          These were the ones I was running through like crazy in my kitchen. Storms often meant they would fail. I edited my original comment and posted a pic of the design i moved to since the can they sat in didnt evacuate heat well at all.

          https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08667M3BR/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1

          Frankly i tend to stick with one brand in general because it provides a consisten light color (ie: 5000k or 3500k warm yellow etc). Rando brands say 5000k daylight but are slightly off and it drives me nuts.

          I have some in warm yellow on certain fixtures and others in daylight for other fixtures. The warm yellow ones we will use at night. (i have a large number of light fixtures in my house for some reason to, which makes this easier)

      • @DoomBot5@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2•2 years ago

        They generate lots less heat that an equivalent incandescent bulb. It’s most likely the dirty power problem you’ve described.

        • FreemanEnglish
          7•2 years ago

          They do. But incandescent bulbs don’t have circuitry prone to heating failures. It’s just a filament.

          So it’s not an equivalency thing.