[Milsurplus] LED Lighting and EMI

[Peter Gottlieb]

Those CFLs were terrible from the start.  Poor reliability, short life, slow 
turn-on, EMI, mercury, can't dim.  The LED ones, by comparison, are very 
promising.  I have had very good reliability and life(so far only one has died 
out of over a hundred I've installed), instant turn-on and dimmable (some, you 
have to check but those tend to be the better quality ones), no dangerous 
materials, and many have low EMI.

In areas of very high electric rates all of these are welcome as their payback 
is quite rapid.  At 30 cents a kWh when you have a lot of lamps it makes a big 
difference.  Also, where labor is very expensive (as in, NYC), there is a very 
compelling reason to replace large numbers of bulbs when a crew goes out at all.

You can argue about being told what to do but I've enjoyed watching the rapid 
advancement of LED lights.  They're amazing how much light comes out of such a 
small device.

Peter



On 3/7/2014 8:25 PM, n2lxm at juno.com wrote:
> Good Evening Kurt,
>
>          Yes. Under a law pushed through the House and Senate as part of
> an Energy Bill. We will be forced to by CFL's or LED's lights. Any old
> stock light bulbs can be sold, but no new stocks are being made. Seems
> the Government thinks it will help the environment. To bad they did not
> know that the CFL's contain small amounts of Mercury among other toxic
> stuff.  And how many will read the disposable rules printed on the CFL
> Base. Most don't and just throw them into the garbage.
>
>
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