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.
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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.
Replaced all of those about 10 years back. These days, the choice is between dumb LED bulbs and smart LED bulbs.
I want to use sodium-vapor lamps one day.
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...
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.
I took an old bulb to a store that only 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.
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.
Bright lights stress me.
Of course. Me too. I don't just like bright all the time. I like control. For example in my living room, there are 17 light sources. Let's say "bulbs" to stay out of the weeds. Nearly everyone of those 17 "bulbs" is dimmable and can be adjusted for color, or at least color temperature. One of my favorite presets is titled "chiller". And that is exactly what it does. It "chills" you out All of the light sources are dimmed way down. None of them are set to "white". Over here is pink, over there is amber up here is a cool blue. What it adds up to is a very dim, relaxed vibe with a ton of depth and you see everything. You can read a paper book. You can see expressions. It's as if you were sitting on a west facing beach watching a sunset.
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.
For years I did work for events that had an audience, stage video recording, Imag and a couple times even film. Rosco 03, with an absurd amount of light and power. You can beautifully white balance the cameras and display and it looks great and matched to an audience in a dark hall. I like to pair R60 and R51. If you've got the circuits, add some lee 202 .5 correction, but careful not to lose white balance in scene changes.. Does anyone actually use gels/poly anymore? I moved on years ago to commercial AV installation. I assume it's all LEDs now right? The last time I did stage lighting was 2005. My memory might be failing me here, so if the colors sound crazy, I've probably forgotten or mixed up. I have actually designed a bunch of installations using LEDs (S4, ETC, etc lol). The technology we are discussing is ancient history now right?
True, most professional spaces are using LED now. The colors are usually programmed for Rosco, though. Not everyone has the budget to update yet. They usually start by adding motion lights a little at a time. You don't really have follow spot operators anymore. When I was working for television it was all about filters for temperature instead of colors. I preferred theatre. I find special effects are more fun on older boards.
Ok, what are power factor and dark bastard amber?
My thumbs will fall off if I answer that. I sort of answered in another response you can read about Dark Bastard Amber (Rosco 03). Power Factor is why it's stupid to ban Halogen's and why LEDs are not as efficient as has been claimed. A Halogen bulb has a much higher CRI and power Factor of 1, a cheap LED has a Power factor of half of that (.5). That means the cheap LED uses twice as much current as the Halogen and can't come close to the Halogen's CRI. In commercial applications ( Like a stadium, for example) the power company charges on Kva demand and charges extra for Power Factor. That's because in real energy terms and on a commercial building's bill, a building full of cheap LEDs is way more expensive than the light it provides should be. So they often have to install capacitor banks on commercial buildings. And the LED needs just as much or more copper (Wire gauge/ breaker capacity) as the Halogen. All for a much shittier quality. Sure, encourage the USE of LEDs, go for it. But that old Twaine quote applies here: "don't ban steaks for men just because babies can't chew them".
There's an incandescent bulb in the fume hood in my kitchen, i think maybe my microwave too? I have some flurescent bulbs kicking around, but they're phasing them out where i live, i think from next year you wont be able to buy them new in australia (good riddance)
Yes, but only in locations the original hasn't broken or is in a place can't get the led replacement in (damn you super high ceilings)
No, I only use LEDs these days. I'm actually switching from regular LEDs to smart LEDs since I can control the brightness and colour.
I still use an incandescent bulb for my front door light, because I've gone through like 5 LEDs and they always start flickering when it's cold out. I don't usually have this light on long enough to warm up properly, so a CFL's warm up time is also a no-go.
Everything else I have is color-temperature selectable LEDs (One of my biggest annoyances I've seen people have, is mismatched color temperatures in the same room). I have them controlled by Zigbee at the outlet rather than having the bulbs themselves have wireless antennas.
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.
When I bought my house in '21 most of the fixtures had already been converted to LED, I quickly swapped out most of the remaining bulbs. The only remaining flourescents are in a handful of fixtures that are very infrequently used, specifically the basement and detached garage where I can't immediately find the ballast to replace them with LED tubes, plus one fixture in a bathroom that takes a specialty base so it's not cost effective to replace the CFL.
I did hang onto the flourescents I replaced and I've swapped a couple in the basement out as they failed. Down to about 2 used flourescents to swap out then the basement will start to migrate to LED. The garage will be a slightly bigger project to rewire the fixtures for LEDs
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 use exclusively Philips Hue color bulbs. Cant tolerate that kind of light nor lights that arent customizable by palette
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.
I have incandescent bulb for a filament drying box project. Think easy bake oven. I have it turn on when a temp drops to a certain level and off when it reaches a certain level. I guess im effectively using it as a heating element.
Hell, most if not all of the lighting in my apartment is LED.
Between 8 rooms (counting the hallway and both bathrooms), theres only 5 fixtures that accept 'bulbs'. 4 table lamps and the light in the vent hood over the stove. Everything else is 'non-servicable' lighting like LED boards built into full fixtures (celing lights), LED tape lights (under counter/shelf lights), and some string lights that nobody can be bothered to take down after xmas.
I haven't had to replace a dead light in at least 8 years though.
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.
Weβve 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.
I have a case of assorted Edison base incandescent bulbs. Theyβre good for lots of little things like the lamp over the record player to illuminate the strobe dots on the edge of the platter.
Theyβre also invaluable as parts for a dim bulb tester. You really canβt do that as quickly or effectively with any other technology.
My favorite reading lamp is a tiny little 7.5w incandescent that puts out a cozy light.
Our dining table has a light fixture built out of driftwood with 6 incasdescant bulbs hanging down.
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.
Until recently we had some CFLs in the light fixture in our rarely-used guest bathroom. I just painted that bathroom so while I had the fixture off the wall I went ahead and replaced the bulbs with LEDs
I suppose my car headlights and such are still halogen and I think the dash lights are mostly incandescent. The interior dome light has gotten an LED upgrade though.
The maglite I keep in my car emergency kit is still the incandescent or halogen bulb it came with when I bought it for my first car 15+ years ago, and I probably have a few more incandescent flashlights floating around in various toolboxes and such.
I think I have one string of incandescent Christmas lights still in use during the holiday.
And the light in my oven is incandescent.
I live in an old home and there are fluorescent lights in the kitchen. Heck, I haven't switched some incandescent light bulbs because I almost don't switch on those lights. Maybe I should.
I use these to find what boxes contain them.
-moves old box in basement, glass breaks- yea that one had curly bulbs.
Got a few, flourescents like that, and t4s. The t4s are slated for conversion. The only incandescents left would be a couple of appliance lights, and one old nightlight. I have quite a few incandescents floating around that aren't in use, as well as a box of t4s.
I would be surprised if there was a single LED in the ancient house I live in.
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.
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.
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