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I hope they're a lot better than the Philips' dimmable LEDs I can buy in my local Tesco. I bought one to replace a halogen bulb that had gone, but it just didn't work. It kept flicking off and on every few minutes.
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It won't be the heat. It was replacing a halogen, which got much hotter. This was barely warm when I took it out.
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I tried to replace all the CF bulbs in the living room with LEDs and ended up having to buy a new dimmer switch too.
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So in order to save... what? £10 of electricity, I have to throw out and replace a perfectly good dimmer switch? Per room?
Seems a bit wasteful.
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How many tonnes of coal does it take to make a dimmer switch to replace one that I'm being forced to throw out long before the end of it's lifespan?
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or basically 5 years emissions of a driving a normal petrol sedan
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but I had one “friend” on Facebook proudly saying they had driven an electric car all the way from Sussex to Scotland.
At that time the energy mix of the UK generation capacity was approximately 40% coal. Which I reckon got them as far as Nottingham.
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The quickest of Googling shows that you're wrong about the CO2 by about 30% and you've more than doubled the time taken to balance the CO2 cost of the WHOLE car compared to a petrol-burner.
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since the existing mains dimmer switches won't work with them and normal light switches don't really work well with them either (since you need to leave the power to the lamps turned on in order to remotely control them). Not particularly smart, in my opinion...
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I have a few wifi smart bulbs - look good to begin with, then once the novelty wears off, they're pretty boring.
I wouldn't want to make all my lights dependent on a single point of failure eg wifi hub or zigbee bridge - I can see that ending in some loud sweary words at some point
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Light-bulbs being a case in point.
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Remember when you didn't have to worry if something as basic as a lightbulb was compatible with something as basic as a switch?
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Don’t even get me started on the dimmable bedside lights I have. Bought a replacement LED bulb for one of those only to have it flicker horribly in anything other than fully on.
Rather than replace two rather nice lamps ahead of time I bought a crap load of spare halogens on Amazon.
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And a diode is not a bulb.
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domestic mains lighting dimmers change the shape of the waveform to reduce the overall power in each AC cycle and can only be used with lamps that work with a non-sinusoidal AC supply (hence the need for dimmable LED lamps, and even then some are fussy about the waveform).
Resistive dimmers are too bulky, inefficient and get too hot to be practical in domestic lighting.
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It started lighting intermittently (~1s) when switched off.
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They may contain capacitors which could store sufficient charge to power the lamp for a short duration after the supply voltage has been removed.
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My guess was some sort of current leakage allowing it to recharge. It died a few weeks after.
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or your microwave oven was seriously leaking radiation!
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But I hate them buzzy dimmers.
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It does this by turning the power on and off around 100Hz.
Most LED drivers don’t react well to this.
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I'm fine to mod your battery operated synth but don't let me rewire your house.
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is it a low power bulb?? the transformer that powers the halogen lamp has a minimum power output!
so by replacing the power hungry bulb with a LED bulb can cause the transformer to misbehave and flash
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Nope, a bog-standard ceiling fitting. Designed for incandescent bulbs, fitted with the low-power halogen replacements. Now it seems the move to LED was a step too far.
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but likely an older leading edge type dimmer that similarly has a minimum load requirement that the replacement LED lamp isn't providing.
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and dimmers round here.
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Two items, both fully compliant with all relevant standards, turn out to be fundamentally incompatible in a way that is only identified during integrated testing.
This is why SLS is utterly fucked.
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Integrated testing is needed you say?
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