BOB WITHORN MS, Better get to the store quick, you could be stranded for a few minutes.
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Better get to the store quick, you could be stranded for a few minutes.
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Our winter has been disgustingly mild of late. We're supposed to get about three cooler days with highs around 30 followed by a warming trend with highs in the mid-40's and some rain.
Monday, downtown Salt Lake City had about eleven inches of snow. I understand that there was about two feet up at our house. I should have warned MC that he was going to get another deposit.
For several years, I sent bad PC boards to a company in Colorado Springs which spanked them so they would work again; one of the men there with whom I dealt would ask me what weather to expect the next day.
Johnny
Thunder snow! Yee-haw! About 2 o'clock this morning Mother Nature decides to remind us who is in charge, Too bad there was no lightning. Lightning always adds to a good thunder smow. Right now, it's snowing. In places the drifts are at least 1/4" deep, maybe more! The TV weathermen are wetting their pants and everybody is bracing for..... 2-3 inches of snow. It's the end of the world as we know it.
blue streak 1Color rendition of both CFLs and LEDs is a matter personal tast. Taste will be highly influenced if your eyes have any type of colored cataract.
And your eyes are not the only thing that can be fooled by CFL's. A few years ago, I took some indoor photos with my DSLR in what I thought was incandescent light. Camera was set accordingly. All the photos had a very warm orangeish yellow cast to them that even Photoshop couldn't remove.
Norm
Bulbs burning out quickly ? Have often found that it may be caused by what is know as a floating ground. Basically ground connections are not sufficient to return all current to ground and some current bleeds over to other leg. This causes voltage fluctuations on each of the 110 volt leg depending on how much load is on the other leg. Use a voltmeter to check each 110 leg or better still rent a recording voltmeter. Imagine two 110 volt air conditioners on the same leg and very little load on other leg especially when starting. Of course any unbalance load situation in a home can cause problems if you have a floating ground. Found one ground so bad a leg measured 158 volts other ~ 90 volts.
Color rendition of both CFLs and LEDs is a matter personal tast. Taste will be highly influenced if your eyes have any type of colored cataract. My cataract removal has been very revealing. All color vision from replaced eye is completely different from the yellow cataract in the other eye.
Suggest deciding which of the three different color CFLs or LEDs. Most Home Depots now have a display with the three different color lights both CFL and LED that can help you decide which one is best. Suggest also taking any samples of items to see how their color behaves under the various colors.
I have begun using CFL's , and I, as others, have found that some fal early on, and others soldier on. Several years ago, I began using one that is equivalent to (I think) a 60 watt incandescent bulb in my bed lamp--where I had used a 40 watt bulb, and I no longer burn my hand when touching the shade. Two and a half years ago, when I replaced the existing ceiling fixture over my dining table, and was talking with the salesman in a hardware store, he told me that an electician had told him that a fluorescent bulb which gives, using less power than the incandescent bulb, gives off just as much heat as the incandescent bulb which produces the same amount of light--and would not take any objection to his statement. I wish I had remembered my heat experience and had ben able to tell him that his electrician friend needs to study the relation of power and heat again.
Many years ago, Ricki bought a nice floor lamp that uses a mogul-based 100--200-300 watt bulb. So far, I know of no fluorescent or LED lighting that gives the same amount of light in the same way. I still use the lamp.
Also, Ricki was using 75 watt bulbs in her desk lamp, and burning the socket up. We began using a CFL that gives the same light in the socket, and I no longer had to replace the socket. She did complain that she could no longer warm her hands on the shade. That electrician knows less about heat and power than I do, and I make no claim to be an electrician (though I have done a bit of electrical work).
By the way, I wonder if our post counter is counting posts this evening.
CShaveRRI'm a fan of the "Daylight" bulbs (which Pat calls "blue" and claims that they hurt her eyes); she likes the yellower ones (whch she calls "white"). So we'll probably have a strategic mixture.
Outside lights - "Daylight" (5000 Kelvin)
Inside lights - "Warm" (~3000 Kelvin)
I'm not really a fan of the cooler color for inside lighting, either.
Just ran my first local ham net (I often participate, but I've never been net control before). It was a slow night, fortunately.
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
I just bought a three-way LED bulb for the over-the-bed lamp in our room. I'm with you, Larry--anything that goes out now gets replaced with LED...some before they go out.I'm a fan of the "Daylight" bulbs (which Pat calls "blue" and claims that they hurt her eyes); she likes the yellower ones (whch she calls "white"). So we'll probably have a strategic mixture. The house is getting a lot brighter, as we replace small 40-watt or 60-watt bulbs with LEDs equivalent to 75 or 100 watts. It's worth it, and we're not staying young enough for dim lights under normal circumstances.We foresee one problem: the new fan/light in our new great room has bulbs with two pegs on them instead of a screw-in socket. We have CFLs in there now, and, last we checked, LEDs were unavailable. I'd like to get LEDs for this one ASAP, because this light is meant to be able to be dimmed; CFLs are not.Other news: In spite of Linda's anemia problems, she's whuppin' that cancer's tail. Her markers are down by 50 percent just since October! They're still about three times a cancer-free reading, but less than ten percent of what they were when she was diagnosed.UP obliged me by sending two manifests through while Pat and I were lunchng at our favorite dive in Geneva. The westbound was huge--with at least eight units on the point, and what looked like a piece of a ComEd empty coal train in the middle. Jeff, if you should happen to see something like this on a lineup, I wouldn't mind a car count and a total length--it had to be spectacular! Probably going through to North Platte, judging from some of the cars I recognized.Progress made on Christmas shopping today, plans being made for our trip to the north pole (or at least a degree closer).
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
Ns was clear when I left work.Chores to do.Still shipping it out.
stay safe
Joe
Deshler Ohio-crossroads of the B&O Matt eats your fries.YUM! Clinton st viaduct undefeated against too tall trucks!!!(voted to be called the "Clinton St. can opener").
Weatherliars in Denver now in CYA mode. Projected snowfall has now tripled.
We will now observe a moment of silence for the RTD Light-Rail (toy train) hydraulic track bumper that sacrificed itself to keep a motorman from running off the end of track at 25MPH with her two car train. (the train had already blown through the Mineral Ave platform without stopping.) Track bumper worked as intended, motorman did not.......Amen.
Them things (WCH Type WH) at $ 17500+ ain't cheap either. It was just standing there when it was so rudely assaulted by the RTD train....Like the tank cars at Portland, it worked as intended. RTD's toy train bus people dodged a bullet. The track bumper will now lie in state at Atlas Iron & Metal until it goes to Pueblo and the railroad afterlife.
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_29249668/rtd-operator-error-likely-blame-light-rail-crash
Aahh, nostalgia for me on seeing 327's and grain of wheat bulbs. In thirty years working on main-frame computers I must have changed out a thousand 327's. The grain of wheat bulbs were less common, but before LED's they were used in some indicators. They had little red plastic cases over them which made them look just like LED's.
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Murphy, for the last couple of years I've been waiting for the price of LED's to come down, and I recently found Utilitech bulbs at Lowes at less than $10 for a box of six. I can't report on the life of them yet, but I'm happy with the white light they put out. I've never been happy with CFL's.
I've gone almost all LED here - and what's not LED will be when I can get them replaced. So far I have yet to have any fail. I've had a few CFLs go, but those that are still in use generally seem to be doing fine.
The LEDs have come from several sources, but mostly from big-box home improvement stores.
If you're going through a lot of bulbs, you may have another issue with your wiring.
Well I guess I really can't go off topic here.... anybody know what is a good light bulb to buy now? I've tried twisty flourecents, halogen, LED, cheap, mid-range, expensive. No matter what, and no matter the fixture, they don't seem to last very long. I love how the boxes always say something like "lasts up to 9 years!!!!".. Key phrase is "up to". Anybody have a good experience with a certain bulb they can share?
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Norm48327 GE 327 aircraft instrument light bulb. They are about 3/16 in. diameter and 3/8 in. long. Don't drop one. They're hard to find.
GE 327 aircraft instrument light bulb. They are about 3/16 in. diameter and 3/8 in. long. Don't drop one. They're hard to find.
Mookie Are the grain of wheat bulbs what they put in a mag-light?
Are the grain of wheat bulbs what they put in a mag-light?
No, but they are about the same size as the bulbs for the Mini Mag Lite.
The mini versions - pretty close.
GoW bulbs were pretty much how model railroad layouts were lit for a good many years (ie, buildings, street lights, signals, headlights, etc) until the advent of the LED. They can still be had.
Rain here in Nw Ohio.Ns has some empties ready to go uptown.Looks like they also have a bad tank car that got set off.Ran errands in town.Csx sounded busy.Going to warm up.
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Grain of wheat bulbs ? Wife just bought a string of blue LED type that are powered by 2 "AA" batteries. Interesting control as bulbs go dim and bright in random patern.
Thanks, Norm. I am glad that someone other than we who are dinosaurs know what grain of wheat bulbs are.
We have had a good snow this morning--and it has irritated several people. Some of the workers here were late arriving, and, while I was eating breakfast, I saw two cars stuck across the street--they are gone now. There is not a great slope as you approach South Temple on Fifth East, but it was enough this morning to give some trouble. I can imagine what it is like going up to 18th Avenue (about 800 feet higher--in a little over two miles--than here).
CShaveRRDo they still make grain-of-wheat bulbs
Yes. Commonly used in small aircraft instrument panel lighting.
I was just given a little birthday party--Ginny and her daughters-Claire (9) and Hannah (7)--came down with a cake and milk and two boxes of cordial cherries (yum, yum!)
No, Carl, I do not know if grain of wheat bulbs are made any more; I doubt it since they were a WWII feature.
Thank you all for the birthday greetings.
A very happy birthday to you, Johnny! May the coming year be a great one for you!Do they still make grain-of-wheat bulbs, he asked with a rye expression.We've had well over an inch of rain today...the snow equivalent would have been nearly a foot. But snow isn't likely at these temps...still 59 out there at 9:00 p.m. Rain is supposed to continue until tomorrow afternoon. Temperatures will gradually become more seasonable, until this weekend when they'll actually be below normal.
Deggestywe used "lamp oil"
We have to watch that - mixing "lamp oil" (which is paraffin based) and kero tends to contaminate the wick and make it flicker...
I tried to etch my Adlake lantern globe with the acid you can use to etch your drinking glasses. No dice - too hard. I bought the Adlake new in the box - you can still get them.
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