the 100W bulb lives on....

Jul 13, 2011 263 Replies

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Yes- but by cutting off the heat to the remaining rooms to save a significant amount of money you imply the remaining space is either vast and/or very poorly insulated. If extreme zoning is your thing then radiant floor heat with electric powered boiler is not all that expensive. Nice thing there is you can tap into solar or any other energy source later.

They vibrate more in a range hood.

It's easy to think outside the box, when you have a cutting torch.

He went to the dork side, long ago.

It's easy to think outside the box, when you have a cutting torch.

You didn't answer the question.

I'll believe it when I see it. So far, I'm not thrilled with the color of "white" LEDs. I haven't even seen a flashlight that I like; certainly not one that holds a "candle" to a krypton bulb.

Branding is no guarantee.

I'm sure some "good" one catch fire and fail early, too. Completely irrelevant, though.

Better, for sure. I certainly hold more promise for LEDs that I do CFLs, though. Meanwhile I added a couple hundred more clear bulbs to my stash yesterday.

Bullshit! Show me where this is in the Constitution. Oh, you meant *your* sorry government. We were *supposed* to have taken care of that bullshit 232 years ago.

I just love such absolutes. It makes you look as stupid as DimBulb.

#1- Because I want it and can afford it. #2- It's none of *your* damned business.

I sleep in at least three of five. I've not slept in the bathroom but I've had bed rooms smaller. ;-)

Weren't you against all resistive heat?

I was planing on using an existing table lamp with the parts mounted inside the head of the lamp. Used table lamps are about $2 each at garage sales.The LEDs would mount on a circular piece of copper PC board as a heat sink. Not sure of the optics, might have to experiment with the placement of the leds for best result lighting a table. The power supply would be a switching wall-wart type, maybe 20 watt, also obtainable at swap meets or sales for $5 or less.

-Bill

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The electric boiler is cheap- a good temporary expedient.

Hmm, we have a couple of 150W lamps, we bought last year, in the great room. There goes that theory too.

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Sounds like some sort of compensation thing....the era of the McMansion is dead- the banks can't even unload that garish architecturally monstrous and building science abomination fast enough...huge piles of trash.

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You're just flushing money down the toilet- that's one approach...

and the socked is mounted on a cheap snap made of spring steel. Haven't you ever installed one, or even looked at one? You can feel the vibration if you touch the hood, and you can hear it, if you aren't deaf.

Also, the hood light tends to be on longer.

It's easy to think outside the box, when you have a cutting torch.

This is not the time to insult Dimbulb!

It's easy to think outside the box, when you have a cutting torch.

I did not write the following: they are a few inches from a cheap indution motor driven fan, and the socked is mounted on a cheap snap made of spring steel. Haven't you ever installed one, or even looked at one? You can feel the vibration if you touch the hood, and you can hear it, if you aren't deaf.

Fine. Except my hood has not had a fan for the last 30 years.

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Doesn't everyone just love these pseudo-sophisticates, I wouldn't insult a 3rd grader by comparing their reading and writing ability. And this "great" room thing- a modern factition and rib splitting laughable farce to anyone with even a cursory knowledge of the evolution of modern interior design- elicits memories of the medieval household where the "great" room was the "only' room- for a large extended family ( of destitute illiterate peasants) who all ate, pooped, and procreated together in one large hovel called the great room...seriously laughable but suitable for most.

Radiant floor heat is cheap *or* temporary? You lefties sure are strange beasts.

Your net-shrink license is hereby revoked.

Define "McMansion".

God, you lefties are stupid!

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