100w Light Bulbs.

[clumsy bastard]

I tend to rely on New Scientist for that kind of stuff.

[Appin]

The message from "Bob Eager" contains these words:

Intersexes? Do you have many on your courses? :-)

[Dave Liquorice]

The valve is good but all the tools look hand made as well.

[Mike]

It could quite easily pass the CO test, as would just about any suitably (mis)adjusted pre cat car but in passing the CO test it would have miserably, spectacularly and comprehensively failed both the HC test and the NOx test.

[Mike]

Unless you are a babe in arms you'd be better off with the stockpile :)

[clumsy bastard]

illuminate me please! I find my LED headtorch way way better than anything before, its reliable, bright and small, brilliant! The old ones people usually had suffered from poor battery life, bulb failures, bad contacts, you name it, it usually took 10 minutes of fiddling to get a dim yellow glow.

[Tim S]

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They said their position was they will sell GLS upto 200W for as long as they are available in the supply chain.

He said he's had loads of orders for massive batches of filament lamps in various forms and the manufacturers have now sold their allocation of some types as far forward as September! So he's very happy with the boost in sales...

He also mentioned that there's going to be a clamp down on frosted bulbs in many forms coming along soon, with the argument being that a CFL can always replace a frosted... That applies to any format, eg candle bulbs.

Cheers

Tim

[Dave Plowman (News)]

IMHO, it's often the specialist lamps where the problem arises - imagine a large crystal chandelier which uses bare candle lamps being fitted with CFLs. Not so much of a problem in that way if the actual lamp is concealed. Apart from CFLs not liking the lack of cooling, of course.

[dennis]

A crystal chandelier is not going to be much use with cfl. They need a bright point source to be at their best. Maybe a bright led would be ok. Or a halogen capsule.

[Tim S]

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[Jules]

Good on ya :) I used to do a combination of cycling and train, but eventually got too sick of the unreliability of the trains and gave in to using a car :/ (and now I'm in the US there's no way of getting anywhere useful without a car anyway)

Weird... maybe it's just a fault with my particular Maglite then (I still wouldn't really like the light colour, but could live with that - the fact that it plain doesn't illuminate as much as the incadescent is a big issue, though). Or maybe LEDs do work better on a smaller-scale but just can't cope as well with big, wide-open spaces. Or maybe it's a directional thing (i.e. the cone of light is wider for an incadescent, with the LEDs giving a narrower beam, but for bike lights that might not be as noticable)

I suppose it *might* make a difference if a particular technology results in harsh, cut-off shadows right at the periphery of your vision - that'd probably be distracting in a moving vehicle (i.e. you'd see potential hazards out of the corner of your eye that weren't really there).

But that's just an idle thought - I don't know if LED lights suffer from that particular problem (ISTR old mercury vapour streetlights being horrible for it), or if a bike light gives enough overall output for it to really matter anyway...

cheers

Jules

[Tim S]

Dave Plowman (News) coughed up some electrons that declared:

I said the Greenwash movement has become the new religion.

And religion often leads to bigotry.

And be damned anyone who would dare to choose not to be part of the new religion.

[Frank Erskine]

The other day I saw hundreds of 100W bulbs in the window of a Poundland store. I don't know how many you get for a pound though...

[Stuart Noble]

About half a dozen IIRC

[chris French]

As well as the LED(s) used, which of course get more powerful every year A lot depends on the optics, one of the latest bicycle dynamo headlights for example, uses a 40 lux LED which directs the light backwards onto the reflector which then produces the beam (which for a light to use to see by does need a decent spread)

The light from this is way, way much better than a similar incandescent lamp.

Of course there a a lot of rubbish LED lamps about. like a lot of these cheap LED headlights, which are fine for close work, but are pants if you want to use them for seeing where you are going outside, for that I still prefer my old incandescent Petzl headlight. Though I suspect that if I invested in a decent new LED one it's be mcuh better.

But I can't imagine wanting to use them for room lighting yet.

[Andrew Gabriel]

Ryness reported problems obtaining 100W lamps as far back as September, due to the major producers having ceased production in anticipation of the end of stock in retail shops. I guess this opens up the remaining market (which is going to be tiny in comparision) to the smaller manufacturers.

This is some proposed EU legislation, which outlaws anything other than clear glass filament lamps from September IIRC. That will be law, rather than the current voluntary agreement on 150W and 100W lamps.

[Tim Lamb]

In message , Andrew Gabriel writes

Is there a CFL in small bayonet fitting? We have rather a lot of wall fittings which take two sbc candle lamps but I suppose it will be some time before they get down to the 25Watt version that we use.

regards

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[clumsy bastard]

what's sickly above bluish light? Its entirely a matter of what you are used to.

[chris French]

In message , Tim Lamb writes

not at all, there is a much bigger variety available than is normally stock in the high street/sheds

e.g. , from BLT, Ranging from 3w to 15W:

The mini-candles are pretty much the same length as an incandescent candle I'd say, but fatter. They are also a bit more obvious in the fitting because of the solid base I think.

[clumsy bastard]

as its based on science its rather different from religion, your grandchildren wont thank you for ignoring a perfectly clear set of problems.