The one pictured is my bedroom light.
Our lighting setup (rented accommodation) is a hodge-podge of mixed fittings, including fluorescent tubes and halogen. All of the actual screw (and Edison) fittings have led bulbs in though.
Part of me wishes for the good old days of cheap incandescent bulbs though. The decent LED bulbs are still 10x the price we used to pay for incandescent, so we buy “cheap” ones (4x the price) which don’t last any longer than the old tech. Of course you can’t get incandescent bulbs anymore…
Garage door motors use normal bulbs for some reason. Explicitly says to.
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 just replaced the one in my stove hood. It was a weird specialty.
I think there’s one in my basement that rarely gets used.
For my sauna I have an oven-style filament bulb. Newer stuff can’t take the heat.
We’ve completely switched to LEDs right when they became available. Taken together with all the other electricity savings that we have been doing, our electricity bill is 75% below what I hear from friends.
No, except my lava lamps take a specific filament bulb. And those just get used for parties. Even my oven lights i replaced with LED.
Are the oven LEDs specialty?
I’ve definitely seen melted bulbs before…
Yes, but only in locations the original hasn’t broken or is in a place can’t get the led replacement in (damn you super high ceilings)
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
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.”🤣
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.
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 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
Until recently we had some CFLs in the light fixture in our rarely-used guest bathroom. I just painted that bathroom so while I had the fixture off the wall I went ahead and replaced the bulbs with LEDs
I suppose my car headlights and such are still halogen and I think the dash lights are mostly incandescent. The interior dome light has gotten an LED upgrade though.
The maglite I keep in my car emergency kit is still the incandescent or halogen bulb it came with when I bought it for my first car 15+ years ago, and I probably have a few more incandescent flashlights floating around in various toolboxes and such.
I think I have one string of incandescent Christmas lights still in use during the holiday.
And the light in my oven is incandescent.
Replaced all of those about 10 years back. These days, the choice is between dumb LED bulbs and smart LED bulbs.
I have a case of assorted Edison base incandescent bulbs. They’re good for lots of little things like the lamp over the record player to illuminate the strobe dots on the edge of the platter.
They’re also invaluable as parts for a dim bulb tester. You really can’t do that as quickly or effectively with any other technology.
My favorite reading lamp is a tiny little 7.5w incandescent that puts out a cozy light.
There’s an incandescent bulb in the fume hood in my kitchen, i think maybe my microwave too? I have some flurescent bulbs kicking around, but they’re phasing them out where i live, i think from next year you wont be able to buy them new in australia (good riddance)
I use exclusively Philips Hue color bulbs. Cant tolerate that kind of light nor lights that arent customizable by palette
Hell, most if not all of the lighting in my apartment is LED.
Between 8 rooms (counting the hallway and both bathrooms), theres only 5 fixtures that accept ‘bulbs’. 4 table lamps and the light in the vent hood over the stove. Everything else is ‘non-servicable’ lighting like LED boards built into full fixtures (celing lights), LED tape lights (under counter/shelf lights), and some string lights that nobody can be bothered to take down after xmas.
I haven’t had to replace a dead light in at least 8 years though.
