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Prepare to flick off your incandescent bulbs for good under new US rules that kicked in this week (apnews.com)

submitted 1 year ago by GlassHalfHopeful to c/usnews

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[–] jabib 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mostly have CFL in my house right now. The way I figured it, the cost of LED at the time was more expensive than the savings over the CFL lifespan

[–] remington 8 points 1 year ago

That was true several years ago. Now, LEDs are far more cost efficient.

[–] Seathru 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I finally switched out all my CFLs because I got tired of the power supply capacitors failing, exploding, and scaring the crap out of me. Electrolytic capacitors aren't limited to CFL power supplies tho, so I suspect we'll see the same failures as the LED bulbs age. It's typically not the LEDs or florescent tubes that fail, it's the cheap power supplies they drive them with.

I did like the delayed warm up CFLs had so they didn't just immediately turn on at full brightness. But now I'm spoiled after changing over to LED smart bulbs. Being able to set the color temperature and brightness levels on a schedule or according to what I'm doing at the time really feels like the future.

[–] snowbell 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love using my hue bulbs with f.lux. If you aren't familiar, f.lux is software that changes the color temperature of your display based on the sun position. They have a feature that matches your bulbs with that as well.

[–] Seathru 2 points 1 year ago

Nice, yeah I've used f.lux on my pc for a while. I didn't realize I could sync it up with the lights. I was using a separate app for that. Thanks!