The one pictured is my bedroom light.
I live in an old home and there are fluorescent lights in the kitchen. Heck, I haven’t switched some incandescent light bulbs because I almost don’t switch on those lights. Maybe I should.
I use these to find what boxes contain them.
-moves old box in basement, glass breaks- yea that one had curly bulbs.
Our dining table has a light fixture built out of driftwood with 6 incasdescant bulbs hanging down.
i have a couple holdouts holding on still.
I have incandescent bulb for a filament drying box project. Think easy bake oven. I have it turn on when a temp drops to a certain level and off when it reaches a certain level. I guess im effectively using it as a heating element.
I want to use sodium-vapor lamps one day.
Surely not as a primary source of light in your home?
No.
I still use an incandescent bulb for my front door light, because I’ve gone through like 5 LEDs and they always start flickering when it’s cold out. I don’t usually have this light on long enough to warm up properly, so a CFL’s warm up time is also a no-go.
Everything else I have is color-temperature selectable LEDs (One of my biggest annoyances I’ve seen people have, is mismatched color temperatures in the same room). I have them controlled by Zigbee at the outlet rather than having the bulbs themselves have wireless antennas.
OMG. As an old (Gen x) lighting designer who lives in CA, may God help you if you asked me this question at a party. In order not to bore you to death I’ll try to spit it out before you fall asleep. Never ask me “What is Power factor?”, All would be lost. Or for god’s sake, “What is Dark Bastard Amber?”( Rosco 03)“Are ellipsoidal fixtures most accurately called Lekos or source four?”. You could die of regretful boredom within 9 seconds". At least you’d have someone to talk to for the duration of the party
Yes. I have a handful of very beloved, non-LED bulbs and fixtures. I have to trouble the out of state family to help me smuggle these into my home. For example, “Halogen” bulbs. I have a floor standing, up firing, dimmable lamp that will transport any room immediately to the surface of the sun. Cleaning? Look out dust. It would be easy to accidentally start a fire with this lamp using the bulbs I put in it. I use it every day in my office, which is so much brighter than any room in average people’s houses. A home tour of my house always results in an “OMG It’s so bright in here, I love it!”. Me too. I think it’s sad that normies can’t have good lights or good drugs.
Bright lights stress me.
What colors are your go to pairing for a wash? I usually had ambers like 16 or 321 for my warm and 60 or 68 for cool. I have also been limited to what’s available for most of my work.
For years I did work for events that had an audience, stage video recording, Imag and a couple times even film. Rosco 03, with an absurd amount of light and power. You can beautifully white balance the cameras and display and it looks great and matched to an audience in a dark hall. I like to pair R60 and R51. If you’ve got the circuits, add some lee 202 .5 correction, but careful not to lose white balance in scene changes… Does anyone actually use gels/poly anymore? I moved on years ago to commercial AV installation. I assume it’s all LEDs now right? The last time I did stage lighting was 2005. My memory might be failing me here, so if the colors sound crazy, I’ve probably forgotten or mixed up. I have actually designed a bunch of installations using LEDs (S4, ETC, etc lol). The technology we are discussing is ancient history now right?
True, most professional spaces are using LED now. The colors are usually programmed for Rosco, though. Not everyone has the budget to update yet. They usually start by adding motion lights a little at a time. You don’t really have follow spot operators anymore. When I was working for television it was all about filters for temperature instead of colors. I preferred theatre. I find special effects are more fun on older boards.
Ok, what are power factor and dark bastard amber?
My thumbs will fall off if I answer that. I sort of answered in another response you can read about Dark Bastard Amber (Rosco 03). Power Factor is why it’s stupid to ban Halogen’s and why LEDs are not as efficient as has been claimed. A Halogen bulb has a much higher CRI and power Factor of 1, a cheap LED has a Power factor of half of that (.5). That means the cheap LED uses twice as much current as the Halogen and can’t come close to the Halogen’s CRI. In commercial applications ( Like a stadium, for example) the power company charges on Kva demand and charges extra for Power Factor. That’s because in real energy terms and on a commercial building’s bill, a building full of cheap LEDs is way more expensive than the light it provides should be. So they often have to install capacitor banks on commercial buildings. And the LED needs just as much or more copper (Wire gauge/ breaker capacity) as the Halogen. All for a much shittier quality. Sure, encourage the USE of LEDs, go for it. But that old Twaine quote applies here: “don’t ban steaks for men just because babies can’t chew them”.
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No, but literally every bulb in my home (except the one in the oven) is an LED smart bulb with ZigBee or Matter support controlled by Home Assistant. Wouldn’t have it any other way.
That said, years ago I installed four bulbs like the ones in the picture - two warm tone, two cool tone - in an outdoor light fixture with a Shelly controller at a friend’s house. The controller uses GPS-provided time to work out the position of the sun and turns on the cool bulbs when the sun’s low on the horizon (pretty much all day during the Winter) and switches over to the warm bulbs at night. That’s been in place for at least ten years and those bulbs are still going strong, though they take a long time to start up.
I have sensory issues and photophobia, led lights really mess with my eyes. Flulorescent bulbs are similarly triggering. I moved into a new place last year and it still has the old incandescent bulbs in some of the lights, it’s much better. I know it sucks for energy conservation, but to me it’s worth it.
Fwiw, you should probably try out some of the newer, nicer LED bulbs - there’s a good chance the sensory issues were caused by (near-)imperceptible flickering, which is much less common in newer hardware.
ETA: make sure they aren’t hooked up to old-style dimmer switches, too. Even LEDs that say “dimmable” need an LED-compatible dimmer.
I’ll give it another shot
Another thing you may want to talk to an optometrist about, especially if your photophobia causes headaches or migraines, is the FL-41 coating for glasses which filters out blue wavelengths that tend to be more triggering of sensitivities.
It made a big difference for me just with the lightest tint. Feels like glare reduction. The darkest one looks like the apocalypse, though, can’t recommend it unless you actually need that much blue block.
If you look around you can find some reviewers who will get into the details on the spectrum coverage, CRI and similar indices, and flicker at different brightness levels.
I think this might be the site I spent the most time on when I was last shopping for bulbs. I got a bunch of bulbs from IKEA of all places that work via zigbee and have really good light quality.
Sweet thank you!
This is why we have global warming - it’s because you won’t switch away from incandescent lights. Not the oil industry or the private jets or the data centers or the billionaires… it’s your fault. Why are you like this?
Your comment reminded me of this exchange from 30 Rock:
“Good for you, sir! Did you know that fluorescent light bulbs last ten times longer than regular ones?”
“Yup. And they only use one quarter of the power. But if we’re gonna solve the climate crisis, we’ve got to change more than the light bulbs and the windows. We’ve got to change the laws and the policies through collective political action on a large scale.”🤣
LED technology changes constantly. Look out for professional LED, because they also address issues occuring in office spaces. CRI/RA value might have an impact on you. Also the glare amount might be something worth to look at.
You should look up Edison Bulb LEDs. You can basically get the same lighting from an LED you’d get from incandescent. You want warm ones. Yellow lighting.
I’ll check those out, thanks!
I use home made lamp covers i make from brown paper to change the light colour of led bulbs, i dunno if that’s helpful for you
i dont think you using a couple old incandescent globes is going to be the straw that breaks it, considering how many jets the usa is flying around dropping bombs on kids :/ be kind to yourself
I wish I could still find incandescent bulbs. They were so much better
They really were not.
They did have some features that were better than led. Like a continuous black body emission spectrum with no wird gaps and irregularities. And they all did, you didn’t need a review or a test device to know.
Mind you, I’m really not saying we should bring them back. But they did have something going for them.
I have a big pile of bulbs still, both 60 and 100 watts, because I knew they were going out of stock. What do you need?
The last 10 years, I’ve only bought a couple of incandescent bulbs for my lava lamps - and those are, thankfully, still available.
The one in my oven and those in my car
Until they burn out, yeah.
We’ve got some in the bathroom that are still chugging along, but we replace everything with led as they fail
Edit: in the house.
Car lights aren’t led because the ones available for my car suck.
I have flashlights that aren’t led, but only some old and cheap ones that never get used.
I hate the light temp. Just the picture is enough already.
I told myself I was going to replace them with LEDs once they break. The problem is that they never do. The ones in my grandparent’s house are around 40 years old and I think only one went out in all those years.
Kinda relevant Veritasium Video about how older lightbulbs were better
It completely ignores the reason for the 1000 hour decision. You could always make bulbs that last forever. You just had to make the filament thicker. As it thickens, the efficiency drops, and by a lot.
1000 hours was decided as an even balance between longevity and efficiency. Some utility companies would even give away 1000 hour bulbs just to keep people from connecting 2500 hour bulbs, which would’ve used a bunch more power.
For a much deeper dive, obligatory Technology Connections video on the subject: https://youtu.be/zb7Bs98KmnY
