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shadesofmauve ([personal profile] shadesofmauve) wrote 2013-08-03 04:11 pm (UTC)

Indeed. "Owning Your Own Home" syndrome appears to be a metastatic sort of illness...

I like the LEDs better than CLS -- as well as the benefits you mention, they come on immediately at full power instead of having a bit of a dim warm-up period -- but maaaan, they're expensive! I have ONE -- in a lamp by the door that I want to be at full brightness as soon as I walk into my dark house. The price is coming down fairly fast, though. A few years ago a single LED bulb was $40; I bought the one I have for $15.I recently saw a display for under $10 -- but only for one standard size and one wattage, subsidized by the utility company. Even at $15, though, I should be able to start changing them out slowly -- it's just that the guy yesterday switched my remaining incandescents (it's like the stone age!) over to CFLs for free. :P

I really want to use LED can lights in the studio, but it's proving more complex to figure out than I thought. See, there's this number you're supposed to look for to show that the bulb has high color accuracy -- I don't remember the details -- but since most people don't care that number isn't actually on the packaging. Thank goodness for the internet. One more thing to do exhaustive confusing research on.

Uh oh. Maligning your wife... :P

The power supply is interesting! That surely bodes well for prices continuing to come down, but perhaps it also explains why they started high. That's a lot more tech than a standard bulb!

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