More fun from the junta! What is interesting is all the exemptions, ie. miniature indicator lamps(which have been dying anyway for 20 years now), architectural design lighting, HV lighting.
I personally prefer LED lighting, ambient, overhead at the bench and inside an 1176LN. I lost a lot of billable hours retrofitting LED for all the equipment lamps in my sphere.
Congress originally banned incandescents on a timetable with the "Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007" (howz THAT working?) but they did not have a real alternative then.
It's like RoHS banning lead, except for all the brass used everywhere in electronics. Like EVERYWHERE!
Supposedly the manufacturers of lighting have to make products that give more energy per watt based on production costs.
If this "energy efficiency" metric were applied to green garbage like solar cells, batteries, and wind, the whole industry would cease operations immediately. Get rid of the two-sided subsidies, devastating, destructive, polluting mining and production in "other countries' back yards" and green is a complete bust. Green is truly the new Red.
1. Stock-up on those 100 watters for the test bench!
2. Test any LED lighting in your lives with a de-tuned from a station analog AM radio (got one?). You will be vewwy surprised at the EMF radiation to which you and your loved ones are exposed. Bed-side readers especially! Re-position and go back to in-can where you can. I still like the 12 VDC halogens for reading.
3. Definitely check any head lamps you are using, strapped right on your brain.
4. Toss any CFL products (responsibly). They were mercury poisoning garbage from the start.
Mike
I personally prefer LED lighting, ambient, overhead at the bench and inside an 1176LN. I lost a lot of billable hours retrofitting LED for all the equipment lamps in my sphere.
Congress originally banned incandescents on a timetable with the "Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007" (howz THAT working?) but they did not have a real alternative then.
It's like RoHS banning lead, except for all the brass used everywhere in electronics. Like EVERYWHERE!
Supposedly the manufacturers of lighting have to make products that give more energy per watt based on production costs.
If this "energy efficiency" metric were applied to green garbage like solar cells, batteries, and wind, the whole industry would cease operations immediately. Get rid of the two-sided subsidies, devastating, destructive, polluting mining and production in "other countries' back yards" and green is a complete bust. Green is truly the new Red.
1. Stock-up on those 100 watters for the test bench!
2. Test any LED lighting in your lives with a de-tuned from a station analog AM radio (got one?). You will be vewwy surprised at the EMF radiation to which you and your loved ones are exposed. Bed-side readers especially! Re-position and go back to in-can where you can. I still like the 12 VDC halogens for reading.
3. Definitely check any head lamps you are using, strapped right on your brain.
4. Toss any CFL products (responsibly). They were mercury poisoning garbage from the start.
Mike