Gripping about LED lighting costs.....
I just need to complain. Reading all the topics about LED, I think LED lighting is worth looking into and possibly even worth tearing apart the few incandescent lights I have on my TH in order to hel...
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Use GOOP and the drooping show will be over.
There is NO SUCH THING as a DC fluorescent light. Part of the garbage that fails or turns fluorescent tube ends BLACK after a few months is an inverter so cheap the output waveform looks like Mars scape. The efficiency improvement borders on being embarrassing.
The big decision is "what color temperature"? From what I've seen the light color varies from damned near high pressure sodium orange, to blue with white in between.
I like 5000K (sunlight) for mechanical repair bench lighting, and 3,000K yellow to help camouflage just how crummy my furniture is* (this is called "warm" lighting). White light for reading, but "warm" light to reduce the chance of heart failure when I unwrap beef from the "carneceria (butcher shop".
*When it gets faded and stained enough I will switch to high pressure sodium. This will give my living room that homey "Wal-Mart parking lot" warmth that women love.
There is NO SUCH THING as a DC fluorescent light. Part of the garbage that fails or turns fluorescent tube ends BLACK after a few months is an inverter so cheap the output waveform looks like Mars scape. The efficiency improvement borders on being embarrassing.
The big decision is "what color temperature"? From what I've seen the light color varies from damned near high pressure sodium orange, to blue with white in between.
I like 5000K (sunlight) for mechanical repair bench lighting, and 3,000K yellow to help camouflage just how crummy my furniture is* (this is called "warm" lighting). White light for reading, but "warm" light to reduce the chance of heart failure when I unwrap beef from the "carneceria (butcher shop".
*When it gets faded and stained enough I will switch to high pressure sodium. This will give my living room that homey "Wal-Mart parking lot" warmth that women love.
