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I’ll tell my completely unprofessional and subjective opinion, as someone with migraines and preferring moderately illuminated (like sum of moonlight and general city light pollution multiplied by two) spaces.
A room with old light bulbs on is a lot more bearable for me than a room with LEDs on.
I suspect this is about spectral characteristics (softer and more dispersed orange light, if that makes sense), which can be mimicked by modern technologies, it’s just that we again live in a time when nobody cares about subtle things affecting quality of life.
EDIT: didn’t erase unconnected thoughts further.
But - everybody cares about getting a new unusable touchscreen phone every year or so. BTW, why touchscreens? Because you have to choose things or scroll things or zoom in&out things, sometimes enter small amounts of text. It’s literally designed to be of limited use for anything important with other things equal, and that’s intentional, because when a device becomes more useful than that, users start having opinions and demands and one can’t have that “predictable progress” with new “flagship phones” and other such stupidity, this is also the reason for industry as a whole going bad`. A touchscreen does not make a device more usable in some other situations.
UI and UX are good when they are predictable and bad when they are not. Even a child or a completely non-tech person will do things more efficiently with a physical keyboard. They’ve just been gaslighted into thinking differently.
Buy led lightbulbs with lower light temperature, they are quite similar to old bulbs.
Also illumination has a lot to do with the luminaries more than the bulbs themselves.
Were common until the EU regulations “kill” them.
As someone who lived with them for the first thirty years or so of my life I am very glad they are gone. I haven’t had to replace a single light in my last ten years since I moved to a home that is all LED while it was a constant thing in my childhood.
I need to replace LED bulbs/reflectors 2-3 times a year.
Osram, the best for it’s price range, but they are running too hot.Really? I don’t remember the last time I replaced an LED bulb. I replaced one old CFL with an LED when it died last year, but before that… I genuinely can’t remember an LED bulb dying. And I buy the cheap ones. Are yours being overheated? Maybe you have really bad power quality?
Not the same guy, but I have some LED bulbs I’ve never replaced. I have some where I need to replace them every couple years or so. It’s… weird. I think it’s gotta be certain types of bulbs and/or the wiring in those parts of my house that just die faster.
I have one specific light fixture that kills led lamps with no mercy. They don’t fully die though, just decrease luminosity over time till they are useless. Tried with brand and non brand lamps. I think because it’s basically upside down glass cups with no vents at the top.
I’m betting on bad airflow on some fixtures, installed by a landlord.
And/or bad switches? Legrand branded.
Some bulbs have cracked plastic housing.They are rated 220-240 V AC, 50/60 Hz, I think have constant current regulator.
One tidbit the article neglects to mention: the rapid heating from a cold start often caused a critical failure in an old filament, which is why bulbs would most often burn out right when you turned them on. You’d get that quick flash, maybe a pop, and the light would be dead. First you’d flip the switch on and off a few times, then go fumble around for the bulbs (hopefully not in the dark), then fumble around replacing the bulb. And hopefully you left the switch off, or remembered to look away while screwing it in, else it’d blind you when the new one came on.
I think we have been able to manufacture sturdier incandescent bulbs for a long time. The “rough service” bulbs made for appliances do pretty well, for example.
I’m not sure why the technology didn’t become common. I would guess that cheap and frequently replaced bulbs making more profit probably has something to do with it.
This is largely a myth. Higher wattage bulbs burn out faster, but they also operate more efficiently. Bulbs are fairly cheap, but electricity is expensive.
During ordinary operation, the tungsten of the filament evaporates; hotter, more-efficient filaments evaporate faster.[115] Because of this, the lifetime of a filament lamp is a trade-off between efficiency and longevity.
I guess you’re implying that rough service bulbs use more power at any given light output? Because I know from experience that they are much more sturdy than typical household bulbs. That’s not a myth.
Rough service bulbs live longer in environments with high amounts of physical stress, temperature variation, and vibration. They don’t live longer in general.
The lifespan of an incandescent is dictated by the evaporation rate of tungsten and directly related to the wattage.
