Re: misc general comments about LED replacements for other lighting

[Hactar]

In article <ff6c416e-cc22-41af...@s18g2000yqg.googlegroups.com>,
rroger <raus...@aol.com> wrote:
> On May 16, 1:17 pm, danny burstein <dan...@panix.com> wrote:
> > LEDs are more efficient, in a watts-to-lumen ration, than
> > any other standard bit of lighting [a]. (Let's leave
> > aside the "color rendering index ["CRI"]" for now).
> >
> > the problems are two fold:
> >
> > a: much more expensive than older, traditional, lighting.
> >
> > a1: that's a big issue wit replacing your closet lightbulb,
> > but in a commercial environment where you have to pay
> > "real money" to do wwapouts,
> >
> Wwapouts?

What single letter could you change to make it a recognizable word, one
that would fit logically in that sentence? Especially try ones close by
on a QWERTY keyboard.

--
-eben QebWe...@vTerYizUonI.nOetP royalty.mine.nu:81
LIBRA: A big promotion is just around the corner for someone
much more talented than you. Laughter is the very best medicine,
remember that when your appendix bursts next week. -- Weird Al

[Snidely]

Hactar was thinking very hard :

> In article
> <ff6c416e-cc22-41af...@s18g2000yqg.googlegroups.com>, rroger
> <raus...@aol.com> wrote:
>> On May 16, 1:17 pm, danny burstein <dan...@panix.com> wrote:
>>> LEDs are more efficient, in a watts-to-lumen ration, than
>>> any other standard bit of lighting [a]. (Let's leave
>>> aside the "color rendering index ["CRI"]" for now).
>>>
>>> the problems are two fold:
>>>
>>> a: much more expensive than older, traditional, lighting.
>>>
>>> a1: that's a big issue wit replacing your closet lightbulb,
>>> but in a commercial environment where you have to pay
>>> "real money" to do wwapouts,
>>>
>> Wwapouts?
>
> What single letter could you change to make it a recognizable word, one
> that would fit logically in that sentence? Especially try ones close by
> on a QWERTY keyboard.

Zee! I told you!

/dps

--
But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason
to 'be happy.'"
Viktor Frankl

[Sano]

Snidely <snide...@gmail.com> wrote in
news:mn.854d7dd5ae4adfb5.127094@snitoo:

> Hactar was thinking very hard :
>> In article
>> <ff6c416e-cc22-41af...@s18g2000yqg.googlegroups.com>,
>> rroger <raus...@aol.com> wrote:
>>> On May 16, 1:17 pm, danny burstein <dan...@panix.com> wrote:
>>>> LEDs are more efficient, in a watts-to-lumen ration, than
>>>> any other standard bit of lighting [a]. (Let's leave
>>>> aside the "color rendering index ["CRI"]" for now).
>>>>
>>>> the problems are two fold:
>>>>
>>>> a: much more expensive than older, traditional, lighting.
>>>>
>>>> a1: that's a big issue wit replacing your closet lightbulb,
>>>> but in a commercial environment where you have to pay
>>>> "real money" to do wwapouts,
>>>>
>>> Wwapouts?
>>
>> What single letter could you change to make it a recognizable word,
>> one that would fit logically in that sentence? Especially try ones
>> close by on a QWERTY keyboard.
>
> Zee! I told you!
>
> /dps
>

The swiffer-picker-upper?

[bill van]

In article <XnsA1C31AE...@69.16.186.7>,

> The swiffer-picker-upper?

I think this job calls for the big shticky.

bill

[Hactar]

In article <XnsA1C2D980A2788ho...@94.75.214.39>,
Howard Hail <howar...@notmail.com> wrote:
> nos...@nospam.com (Paul Ciszek) wrote:
>
> > ANother advantage they have is that when you want a colored light, you
> > can get LED's that make just that color of light instead of making
> > white light and filtering out most of it. This is nice for brake and
> > tail lights, those flashing red warning lights on top of radio towers,
> > traffic lights, etc.
>
> They must not have filtered down to the cheapo Christmas light market,
> because the ones I bought a year or two ago are just regular lights inside
> colored plastic.

You can get multicolored LED Christmas lights for not too much money.
They're convenient because you can daisy-chain oodles of them without
blowing one of those tiny fuses.

> They're definitely not as nice looking as the old cheapo incandescent
> lights, with an off greyish tinge, but it's nice to know that in a few
> years maybe the real deal will be on the shelves in LED versions. The
> cheapo incandescents always seemed hot enough to make me wonder if I'd get
> caught in a Christmas Tree conflagration some December.

LED bubble lights will probably never happen, or if they do they'll
incorporate a heating element and be crazy expensive, sorta like this:

http://www.mathmos.com/mathmos-smart-astro-colour-changing-lava-lamp-20343-0.html

http://tinyurl.com/324w3fz

I gave some mental time to making a CFL lava lamp once, because my friend
said he liked the look of LLs but couldn't justify a "lamp" that didn't
provide significant illumination. I figure, there are 40W CFLs, so there
ought to be a way, with a custom base, to stick a lava globe on top of
one. Got the base partway done, but got stuck on some mechanics and
never finished it.

[Howard Hail]

ebenZ...@verizon.net (Hactar) wrote in news:974i6a-...@pc.home:

> Howard Hail <howar...@notmail.com> wrote:

>> nos...@nospam.com (Paul Ciszek) wrote:
>>
>> > ANother advantage they have is that when you want a colored light,
>> > you can get LED's that make just that color of light instead of
>> > making white light and filtering out most of it. This is nice for
>> > brake and tail lights, those flashing red warning lights on top of
>> > radio towers, traffic lights, etc.
>>
>> They must not have filtered down to the cheapo Christmas light
>> market, because the ones I bought a year or two ago are just regular
>> lights inside colored plastic.
>
> You can get multicolored LED Christmas lights for not too much money.
> They're convenient because you can daisy-chain oodles of them without
> blowing one of those tiny fuses.

I have a couple of sets of cheapie LED Xmas lights, but they aren't the
pure light ones that Senor Ciszek was referring to, they come with
plastic colored covers that are multifaceted, I assume to scatter the
light better or something. Unfortunately the light isn't as nice as the
old regular bulbs, but they've lasted two years without a burnout, which
vastly outperforms any old lights I ever bought, although I pretty much
always got the sale bin ones so I can't say I deserve better.

[Hactar]

In article <XnsA1C39C91BD...@94.75.214.39>,

I need battery-powered lights, so incandescent's out. Incandescents
and battery power don't play nicely together.