Incandescent bulbs illegal to sell in US after Tuesday

[Fajita Jim]

Get em before they're gone.

Seriously I'm all LED now except this one lamp with a small bulb. Gonna have to check on that.

Are you stocking or have you also moved on?

[Out Of Bubblegum]

I moved on.

[Violeta]

LEDs bulbs sure were great when they were new. One light bulb lasted years. Now they're hardly any longer lasting.

Progress

[ṼṏẌṏḭḊ]

I hate incandescent bulbs.

[kilésengati]

Does that include automotive and scientific applications as well? How about old stock?

Here in Europe, you can still get old stock incandescent bulbs.

Anyway, there's barely any difference between high-quality LEDs and incandescent bulbs. Unfortunately, most of the stuff sold to the mainstream is low-quality rubbish now.

[[N]ebsun]

Who actually invented the first light bulb ?

[Fajita Jim]

Diposting pertama kali oleh kilésengati:

Does that include automotive and scientific applications as well? How about old stock?

Here in Europe, you can still get old stock incandescent bulbs.

Anyway, there's barely any difference between high-quality LEDs and incandescent bulbs. Unfortunately, most of the stuff sold to the mainstream is low-quality rubbish now.

Not sure about the specialized bulbs, but the regular bulbs must be off the shelf and unavailable to purchase on Aug. 1.

[kilésengati]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Fajita Jim:

Diposting pertama kali oleh kilésengati:

Does that include automotive and scientific applications as well? How about old stock?

Here in Europe, you can still get old stock incandescent bulbs.

Anyway, there's barely any difference between high-quality LEDs and incandescent bulbs. Unfortunately, most of the stuff sold to the mainstream is low-quality rubbish now.

Not sure about the specialized bulbs, but the regular bulbs must be off the shelf and unavailable to purchase on Aug. 1.

That's effectively expropriation without compensation.

[Xautos]

Been using LED bulbs in my place for decades. saving on energy bills? hell yeah! Seen enough thievery from British energy companies enough to know i'm not gonna give them an excuse to line their pockets because they want to hike prices for any excuse.

[Pieshaman]

they arent sold in this country for over a decade already.

[Xautos]

still got boxes of new led lights i brought in bulk a long time ago. i replace the dead ones when they go, i've only ever replaced 4 in all that time. incadescent bulbs don't last long and when they go, you'll know about it quickly. the last one of those i used was about a decade ago when the wire in the center just popped.

[Tonepoet]

No point in it. Even if I were to stock up, they burn out quickly anyway so it would not buy much time, and while those old C.F.L. lightbulbs had a ghastly coolness to their color temperature, L.E.D. light bulbs provide good warm light. Also, candles still exist for traditionalists, and it would be rather hard to enforce a candle ban sincethey are so easy to make.

Also, speaking of easy to make, how difficult can it be to make a light bulb? We are talking about rather simple 19th century technology here. The hardest part of making a viable light bulb was figuring out which filament to use. You can kind of sort of jury rig your own with aligator clips attached to pieces of wire, a graphite pencil led, some batteries and a mason jar. It is probably not as good or convenient as a commercial bulb, but it is something if you are really desperate for some ol' fashioned incandescent lighting.

Maybe if I was more into photography then I would care more, but even then I think I would prefer to have VU1 brand E.S.L. lightbulbs[www.forbes.com]. Though then again, those do not seem to be made anymore for some reason.

[Ulfrinn]

What is the purpose of making them illegal?

[Tonepoet]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Ulfrinn:

What is the purpose of making them illegal?

Environmentalists hate that they consume so much energy for the amount of light (as measured in lumens) produced compared to other methods, and argue that any capital savings on the price of an incandescent light bulb is offset by the energy bill savings of other more efficient methods of lighting.

A ban was supposed to go into effect like a decade or so ago, when C.F.Ls. were introduced on the market just for those reasons alone, but it kept getting postponed. Oh, and also, Halogen bulbs were a little more efficient than standard incandescents, so those were able to keep up with the more lenient energy efficiency standards for a while.

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I still use the regular bulbs. The led's ones are way to bright for me.

[Dom]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Ulfrinn:

What is the purpose of making them illegal?

Well, many reasons. They use way more energy than the alternatives. Especially during the energy crisis this needs our focus.

Also,
"...incandescent bulbs typically have short lifetimes compared with other types of lighting; around 1,000 hours for home light bulbs versus typically 10,000 hours for compact fluorescents and 20,000–30,000 hours for lighting LEDs."

Yep, LEDs last 20-30x longer on average.

People have to throw these away more frequently in comparison to the alternatives, which, causes waste and is harmful to the environment.

This also doesn't prohibit using them, only from selling new ones.
A very good and welcomed decision.