Anyone else hate the new light bulbs?

[chopped]

Well im so glad for the information from TBN members.I really get an education.
For weeks, after I converted to the antenna again.(Didn't feel cable was worth the money for us).
Anyways with digital signal it either locks on or doesnt. So for a few months now everyday about 4 or 5 PM the local channel we got would go blank.I thought it had to do with the sun setting.
So tonight we were watching and I went to the kitchen to get a drink , and noticed the tv went blank.So as I exited the kitchen I shut the light off and the tv channel came back on/HMMM
So all this time the three LED lights were sending interference to the TV..
I never would have suspected this if I were not schooled at University of TBN lol
interestingly in the tv room there is one identical bulb and puts out no interference.
So in summary,I can't watch tv and have the kitchen light on LOL sort of reminds me of my sisters house where you have to shut all the lights off to run the microwave, or have someone standing near the ciruit breakers to reset themlol

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Funny thing about his "internet" subject?.

Title is Anyone else hate the new light bulbs?. But most of the discussion is about disappointment with CFLs, which have been around even long before the word "internet". Think about that one for a moment, Pre-Internet. CFLs are almost dinosaur.

It's a little late to discuss CFLs, they're already 'on their way OUT' and thankfully so. And the CFLs have degenerated to NOT even last as long as an incandescent bulb, which probably required extensive engineering to burn out early yet still last about 1,000 hours as stated on the box. Down from the 2,000 hours they stated previously.

What does this say about tractorbynet members?? (in the Rural living forum) Are they a little "behind the curve"? Suckers for planned obsolescense? Short memory? :laughing: I know my memory isn't what it used to be.

I like old-school, but climbing a ladder 25 times as often, to stick with incandescents doesn't pencil out. Incandescent bulbs are a waste of time, energy, and for MOST people on ladders, dangerous. This 25 times assumption is based on an LED lasting 25,000 hours and an incandescent lasting 1,000 hours. Well, we do know incandescents don't last 1,000 hours. Unless you buy 130v, which cost a lot more for no reason other than they intend to sell less long-lasting bulbs thus drive most sales towards the ones that burn out.

PS: FYI. NEWSFLASH! The new lightbulbs are LED. And the "blue" LEDs are old school, the "color" of the new LEDs are indistinguishable from incandescents, except they use 1/5 the power.

The way I read the Op's first statement, he was referencing CFL's. Later on he makes a comment about newer technology and LED's.

Personnally I like LED's, except for the price.

 

[Sodo]

Maybe what's actually funny is that you missed the early days of the internet.
I was posting on "internet" bulletin boards through dial up modems way before cfl's were available for average consumers.

I do remember that (with some effort). No pictures, no colors, just text and a blinking cursor. When men were men and nerds were nerds! :rotfl: You think of that as the internet,,,, well it had less functionality than a txt msg on the phone, but you're right it was called the "internet". That was early 90s? and I think CFLS came out a few years later, in the mid-90s. But realistically there was very little internet when CFLs came out in force. Tractorbynet had 20 members in 1998; wonder if TBN was a unix screen message board in 1998?

It seems like mfrs are already dumping CFLs, hoping ** someone ** will buy them before they go straight to haz-mat yet here they are discussing the ins and outs.

Agreed about the LED price but at least LEDS will pay for themselves someday, and at an accelerating rate when the cost of energy rises. They don't actually pay for themselves except when you otherwise would have wasted money with an incandescent. (…..except when inside the insulated envelope of a heated a home). It gets complicated…..better to just turn the **** thing off.

 

[DarkBlack]

I was playing on the early bulletin boards in '88. I remember downloading some game files at 1200 baud. The 'games' were about 4k bytes and took forever to get.:laughing:

 

[California]

1200??? My first modem was a $90 (used) 300 baud unit. With no dialing ability, you used your phone on another extension for that.

But I had a HP110 laptop with 300 baud modem (from work) before that. MS-DOS based. Can you imagine 280k total available for programs and data storage?

 

[DarkBlack]

I was actually given a 300, but before I actually used it I bought a 'new' lighting fast 1200.

 

[DarkBlack]

There's more code to display the mouse pointer today, than those computers used for entire programs!

 

[Sodo]

….bought a 'new' lighting fast 1200.

……back on topic, discussing new lighting thats actually dinosaur….

 

[Travelover]

I was actually given a 300, but before I actually used it I bought a 'new' lighting fast 1200.

Now you are making me feel old - like when I took my grandson to the museum and they had stuff on display that I had used as a kid. :laughing: Lots of old light bulbs there, too - not that much different than a modern incandescent.

 

[California]

You know you are getting old: when you go into a thrift store and there's stuff there, other peoples used stuff, that is in better condition than the same items you paid a lot of money for new and you are still using it.