The Biden Administration’s rules seek to make lighting cheaper and less polluting

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    For some reason LED bulbs in my condo start flickering and die after only a few months of use. No idea why, but I actually switched back to incandescent because throwing away so many LED bulbs is more inefficient than running higher power bulbs.

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      1 year ago

      Sounds like your condo may not have properly grounded power, some of mine flicker for that same reason. Have you tried CFLs? Not as nice light but it might solve your issue.

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        Yeah, those worked fine, but all the stores around me stopped selling them. I can only get LEDs, or I can get decorative style incandescents, so I’ve been buying the latter.

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      Check the enclosures. LED lights have controller boards that have to be cooled, lest they burn up. Some enclosures are just not compatible with LED bulbs or you may need a different style. You might consider halogen. They’re still incandescent but far more energy efficient and, unlike CFLs, they don’t require s hazmat suit to clean up when they break.

      That said, CFLs are pretty awesome little feats of engineering too.

      Check out the Technology Connections YouTube page. Dude has a few videos on lighting you might benefit from having watched.

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        They managed to go faulty in a free standing lamp without a shade, just completely open, so I don’t think heat is an issue; something in the wiring must be messing with them.

        I have used some halogens, but I haven’t found many I like the light of. Might try some others to see how they look.

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        Lol when I was reading the first bit of your comment, I wondered “hmm, does this person also watch Technology Connections”?

        He’s also where I get all my knowledge of light bulbs from. He makes it all so fascinating.