The one pictured is my bedroom light.
OMG. As an old (Gen x) lighting designer who lives in CA, may God help you if you asked me this question at a party. In order not to bore you to death I’ll try to spit it out before you fall asleep. Never ask me “What is Power factor?”, All would be lost. Or for god’s sake, “What is Dark Bastard Amber?”( Rosco 03)“Are ellipsoidal fixtures most accurately called Lekos or source four?”. You could die of regretful boredom within 9 seconds". At least you’d have someone to talk to for the duration of the party
Yes. I have a handful of very beloved, non-LED bulbs and fixtures. I have to trouble the out of state family to help me smuggle these into my home. For example, “Halogen” bulbs. I have a floor standing, up firing, dimmable lamp that will transport any room immediately to the surface of the sun. Cleaning? Look out dust. It would be easy to accidentally start a fire with this lamp using the bulbs I put in it. I use it every day in my office, which is so much brighter than any room in average people’s houses. A home tour of my house always results in an “OMG It’s so bright in here, I love it!”. Me too. I think it’s sad that normies can’t have good lights or good drugs.
What colors are your go to pairing for a wash? I usually had ambers like 16 or 321 for my warm and 60 or 68 for cool. I have also been limited to what’s available for most of my work.
Ok, what are power factor and dark bastard amber?
No, but literally every bulb in my home (except the one in the oven) is an LED smart bulb with ZigBee or Matter support controlled by Home Assistant. Wouldn’t have it any other way.
That said, years ago I installed four bulbs like the ones in the picture - two warm tone, two cool tone - in an outdoor light fixture with a Shelly controller at a friend’s house. The controller uses GPS-provided time to work out the position of the sun and turns on the cool bulbs when the sun’s low on the horizon (pretty much all day during the Winter) and switches over to the warm bulbs at night. That’s been in place for at least ten years and those bulbs are still going strong, though they take a long time to start up.
We have an addition built in the 1990s and there are these, I don’t know what they are called but like high shelves with uplighting? They have those long flourescent tubes and I guess when they die we will have to remodel. The actual light from them is so nice, diffuse and soft.
And on the old side of the house the bathroom fixture only works with incandescent bulbs.
So yeah. We have a mix.
No
I despise fluorescent light. It is vile. If I found one today, I’d bring it to the toxic waste dump and get a warm LED. I think the only incandescent I have is a red one in a 3 bulb lamp.
I have some CFLs that are still hanging on. One in a closet, another in the bathroom. Oven light is incandescent bc it’s an oven light. Finally car headlamps are incandescent bc, in my car, they provide more photons where I need.
General purpose lighting is largely LED and then special purpose lighting may be something else.
The one in my oven and those in my car
I hate the light temp. Just the picture is enough already.
Until they burn out, yeah.
We’ve got some in the bathroom that are still chugging along, but we replace everything with led as they fail
Edit: in the house.
Car lights aren’t led because the ones available for my car suck.
I have flashlights that aren’t led, but only some old and cheap ones that never get used.
Our lighting setup (rented accommodation) is a hodge-podge of mixed fittings, including fluorescent tubes and halogen. All of the actual screw (and Edison) fittings have led bulbs in though.
Part of me wishes for the good old days of cheap incandescent bulbs though. The decent LED bulbs are still 10x the price we used to pay for incandescent, so we buy “cheap” ones (4x the price) which don’t last any longer than the old tech. Of course you can’t get incandescent bulbs anymore…
If your LEDs are only lasting 1000 hours, you either have electrical problems or should be getting different bulbs. Mine last 5-10 years apiece, with some at 15 years. These were not chosen for their longevity, although color temp and CRI were primary factors.
Garage door motors use normal bulbs for some reason. Explicitly says to.
Certain types of lighting can interfere with the radio signal to open/close. It’s kind of like how microwave popcorn always says to not use the popcorn button.
Try it and see. I’ve had a CFL and an LED in mine for years, no issues.
Incandescent bulbs are not “normal” any more by any definition of the word. Anything that still uses them is simply outdated.
They were only the norm for 110 years, after all.
I just replaced the one in my stove hood. It was a weird specialty.
I think there’s one in my basement that rarely gets used.
For my sauna I have an oven-style filament bulb. Newer stuff can’t take the heat.
I have sensory issues and photophobia, led lights really mess with my eyes. Flulorescent bulbs are similarly triggering. I moved into a new place last year and it still has the old incandescent bulbs in some of the lights, it’s much better. I know it sucks for energy conservation, but to me it’s worth it.
LED technology changes constantly. Look out for professional LED, because they also address issues occuring in office spaces. CRI/RA value might have an impact on you. Also the glare amount might be something worth to look at.
Fwiw, you should probably try out some of the newer, nicer LED bulbs - there’s a good chance the sensory issues were caused by (near-)imperceptible flickering, which is much less common in newer hardware.
ETA: make sure they aren’t hooked up to old-style dimmer switches, too. Even LEDs that say “dimmable” need an LED-compatible dimmer.
I’ll give it another shot
If you look around you can find some reviewers who will get into the details on the spectrum coverage, CRI and similar indices, and flicker at different brightness levels.
I think this might be the site I spent the most time on when I was last shopping for bulbs. I got a bunch of bulbs from IKEA of all places that work via zigbee and have really good light quality.
Sweet thank you!
This is why we have global warming - it’s because you won’t switch away from incandescent lights. Not the oil industry or the private jets or the data centers or the billionaires… it’s your fault. Why are you like this?
Your comment reminded me of this exchange from 30 Rock:
“Good for you, sir! Did you know that fluorescent light bulbs last ten times longer than regular ones?”
“Yup. And they only use one quarter of the power. But if we’re gonna solve the climate crisis, we’ve got to change more than the light bulbs and the windows. We’ve got to change the laws and the policies through collective political action on a large scale.”🤣
You should look up Edison Bulb LEDs. You can basically get the same lighting from an LED you’d get from incandescent. You want warm ones. Yellow lighting.
I’ll check those out, thanks!
I wish I could still find incandescent bulbs. They were so much better
They really were not.
They did have some features that were better than led. Like a continuous black body emission spectrum with no wird gaps and irregularities. And they all did, you didn’t need a review or a test device to know.
Mind you, I’m really not sung we should bring them. But they did have something going for them.
I have a big pile of bulbs still, both 60 and 100 watts, because I knew they were going out of stock. What do you need?
The last 10 years, I’ve only bought a couple of incandescent bulbs for my lava lamps - and those are, thankfully, still available.
I use home made lamp covers i make from brown paper to change the light colour of led bulbs, i dunno if that’s helpful for you
i dont think you using a couple old incandescent globes is going to be the straw that breaks it, considering how many jets the usa is flying around dropping bombs on kids :/ be kind to yourself
We’ve completely switched to LEDs right when they became available. Taken together with all the other electricity savings that we have been doing, our electricity bill is 75% below what I hear from friends.
No, except my lava lamps take a specific filament bulb, as the heat is needed to melt the wax. And those just get used for parties. Even my oven lights I replaced with LED.
Are the oven LEDs specialty?
I’ve definitely seen melted bulbs before…
Took old bulb to a store that just sells light bulbs, so they have an extensive inventory. They gave me these LED equivalents. Been a few years and still working. Oven has glass covers that seal over the bulbs.
Right? When mine went, I found an LED bulb for like a dollar and a half thinking, this can’t possibly hold. But so far, it’s held up for 2 years.
