Last Chance To Buy Incandescent Bulbs

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If you have an older Easy-Bake oven, be aware
that incandescent bulbs are being phased out.
California has already phased out 100W bulbs,
though 95W bulbs are still available. By 2014,
all standard incandescent bulbs will be phased
out throughout the U.S. (bulbs for lighting,
not bulbs for things like flashlights and car
turn signals).

This also affects some chocolate tempering
machines. I have an ACMC tempering machine,
and I've stocked up on bulbs.
 
On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:10:48 -0600, zxcvbob
wrote:


I'm not about to leave any lights burning when I don't need lights
just for their heat... my central heating system is far more
efficient... why don't you leave a hair drier running, or a KA mixer?
lol And I don't see how CFLs can be used as outdoor floods/spots. I
have a few small CFLs in my basement but I really don't care for the
type of light they emit... but they're good for my basement just to
find my way as I don't normally do anything down there that requires
good lighting, and they don't use much energy if I forget to turn one
off, but I rather save by turning off lights I'm not using. And for
the times I do need decent light in my basement I have some large
fluorescent shop type fixtures and some incondescents strategically
placed, like over the boiler and other mechanicals... my basement is
unfinished, I don't need mood lighting there.
 
Mark Thorson wrote:



With credit to Heybub on alt.home.repair for pointing this out last
October- Heatballs is what you want these days-;

[BERLIN] Siegfried Rotthaeuser and his brother-in-law have come up
with a legal way of importing and distributing 75 and 100 watt light
bulbs -- by producing them in China, importing them as "small heating
devices" and selling them as "heatballs."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101015/od_nm/us_germany_heatballs

Jim
 
Brooklyn1 wrote:

The CFLs adapted to regular Edison base outdoor flood type packaging are
pretty mediocre. The dedicated CFL outdoor flood fixtures that use one
or more flat CFL lamps seem to work quite well.
 
Mark Thorson wrote:

Hmm. I have an overhead light fixture which takes 40w.
candlelight-type bulbs. I wonder what they're going to do about
those? Those squiggly energy savers are going to look odd inside the
shades. - hardly decorative.
 
Dora wrote:

There are a number of CFL and LED replacements for candelabra type lamps
available. No, they don't look the same, but they are encased so they
don't look like the open spiral CFLs either.
 
Sqwertz wrote:

You can also get dimmable ballasts for regular tube type fluorescents.
I've seen them in some conference room applications and they worked
about the same, dimming just fine in a 15%-100% or so range.
 
On 2/8/2011 1:54 PM, Dora wrote:


And don't forget all the bulbs in appliances--microwave, oven,
refrigerator, freezer. Those replacement bulbs will be a nuisance.

gloria p
 
"Mark Thorson" wrote in message
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Oh no!!!!! I use pink ones in my dining room. I also have some small lamps
that I think only take small ones of that type.

I haven't seen the coily ones in pink. Gah! White light is too harsh!
 
On 2/8/2011 5:54 PM, Julie Bove wrote:


I've never seen colored lights like that. What kind of hue do you see in
the room lit with colored lights? Sounds like something I'd really
like! Is it a chandelier that you use the pink ones in?
 
"gloria.p" wrote:

Specialty incandescent lamps are exempted from all regulations I've
seen, even in crazy CA.

* Specialty lamps, such as appliance, A/V, stage, medical device, etc.
 
On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 15:06:33 -0800 (PST), Roy
wrote:


I have no use for a finished basement... I also have a huge unfinished
attic, and two unfinished barns, and I don't mean sheds, one is big
enough to fit my entire house inside, twice. My house has 2,000 sq ft
of living space on one floor, I don't even use all that... my living
room is 28' X 16' and if I sit in there for more than an hour twice a
year it's a lot, it's blocked off with a French door to keep the cats
out so I don't need to clean so often. Even when I have guests we
don't use the living room becuse all my cats will be pawing at the
glass panes and looking sad. My basement is painted cement block
walls and a painted concrete floor, is that considered finished? Oh,
and I have my second fridge down there, filled with beer... that's as
finished as it gets. Many years ago I lived in a basement apartment
for two years, I said never again. Before I'd finish the basement I'd
finish my attic, at least I'd have a nice view from up there. But my
attic is as big as my house plus it extends over my two car garage,
would hold a six lane bowling alley, I can't imagine why I would need
all that space, I'd hate having to heat it.
 
Julie Bove wrote:

I haven't noticed pink versions of CFLs, but there are multiple color
temperatures and full spectrum types available. Worst case you can visit
a craft store and get some pink transparent paint to dip them in, even
the non enclosed CFL coils will do fine dipped in a transparent pink
lacquer (only up to the base of the coil of course). I also believe the
candelabra type lamps may fall under the specialty exemptions, so you
can probably still get incandescents.
 
On Feb 8, 4:56?pm, "Pete C." wrote:

Sure, because CFLs don't work in those applications. It will probably
be a very long time before there's a good replacement for
incandescents in ovens.

--Bryan
 
On 2/8/2011 10:36 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

I've been using CFLs for many years for most lamps. Started back when
they only came in those bright white ones that flickered when they came
on. However, I have a living room lamp that I leave on 24/7 except,
during the summer during the day, and one bulb lasts me at least 4
years. At least now they're looking more like daylight or a softer
yellow. The one place I don't like them is in my bathroom. They
replaced those decorative globe bulbs over the mirror. Yes, they're
spiral. Look funky, but I'm used to them now. The electric company was
doing free usage checkups, and if they came to visit your house and
assess your electricity use and setup, they'd replace all incandescent
bulbs with free CFLs. Too good to pass up. They even replaced several
water faucets with water-saving ones, but that turned out to be a
problem in my kitchen. Because those faucet additions tend to block or
impede normal flow, if you have any sort of problem, it will force a
leak. Yup, I got a leak and had to replace the whole sink fixture.

Even my outside flood lights are CFL, but those do take a little longer
than I like to come up to full light when the motion sensor is triggered.
 
"Brooklyn1" wrote in message
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My friend had a cat who wouldn't let you use the bathroom in peace. There
was enough space under the door that she could stick a paw under. She would
paw pitifully under the door and yowl while you were in there. I did try to
take her into the bathroom with me when I went in, but she wouldn't do that
either. Her litter box was in there so maybe she thought it was her room.

I just had a funny thing happen here. I am not cooking dinner tonight. We
have tons of this and that so we are all on our own. Husband wanted a
hamburger and a hot dog which of course he is incapable of fixing for
himself. I was heating the meat and my cat came into the kitchen, eyes all
big and looking quite excited. She was all over my legs and feet and I
couldn't figure out why. Then I spotted the pink pool on the floor. Hot
dog juice! I knew when opened the package that it looked like there was a
lot of juice at the edge. It's a big Coscto package that I cut on the
vertical edge and then put in a gallon sized ziplock bag. Poor kitty wasn't
fast enough. I mopped it up before she got to it. I did heat up a little
chicken and rice for her though. She loved that!
 
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