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    New warm white LED lights at Lowes

    I was excited to see these at lowes when they started to carry them. Big improvement over the old style 5mm led arrays they had in there previous. Sadly I've watched the ones on display slowly degrade everytime I"m in there they are a little bit dimmer. One of the puck ones has gone dark, a...
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    "NEW" Lights of America 120v LED fixtures at Walmart?

    LOA lamps are garbage. I just posted to the other thread about them that they dropped to less than a 5th of their output in only 2 weeks of runtime. Dont bother with them. There are a couple of ways to make them work better with X10 modules though. If you've got it plugged into a lamp or...
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    Don't buy Lights of America 120V LED Bulbs

    I was also tempted to pick up that pack of 3 Lights Of America candelabra bulbs from SAMS a couple of weeks ago. My testing is similar to the others here. Let one just plugged in here on my desk for a couple of weeks and it has reduced significantly it's brightness. They will not last for...
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    New Luminous Material Glows For 12 Years

    the materials clearly show that it's tritium. Which is great, and would work and you could create a micro bead glow thing with that. Unfortunately, you'll never get it allowed to be sold in the US. An individual key fob is too much for the NRA (thats Nuclear Regulatory Agency and not National...
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    Dimmable Flourescent bulbs are here.

    Thanks! I'll order a box and try playing a bit. I've recently been investing in some better wall switches to do dimming and switching of CF bulbs. They are so much more expensive than the regular X10 switches that I'm not going all out, just 1 or 2 a year in the most obvious places so I will try...
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    Going on the RAVE diet...

    if you're just looking to loose weight and get healthy you don't have to do to quite those extremes. You certainly are free to if you want to, but it's not necessary. My wife and I decided we were unhappy heading towards our middle age spread and decided together we could cut down on the amount...
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    Dimmable Flourescent bulbs are here.

    Hi Mike, It would be great if dimmable units were really coming available at that price point! I've seen dimmable CCF ones for around $6, but they are like 15 or 20 watt equivalent bulbs, and who needs to dim a 15 watt bulb?! ;) 75 would be perfect though! I'll keep an eye out here, do you...
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    2 Joules/sq. cm. -- doable from red Luxeons?

    Though besides the point of this thread, I have suffered from non-chemo induced mouth ulcers most of my life. Sometimes to the point of distraction and as a child not being able to eat for a while. They aren't serious or anything, but if many pile up they can be quite miserable. In the last...
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    I think I need a digital book...

    the e-paper display on some of these things is really wonderful to look at. It really does almost have the contrast of a printed page. You dont say what you're going to mostly use it for? I just have no desire to download novels to the thing, the licensing is far too restrictive. At the moment...
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    Anyone made glowstick forumla?

    I dont think that formula is correct. Sodium hydroxide (or some less noxious base is generally used) is necessary to dissolve the oxalate phenol esters but there are a couple of things not listed there, like the actual chemical that gives off the light when mixed with hydrogen peroxide... You...
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    Starbucks updates ...

    one doesn't go to starbucks for the coffee, but rather for the coffee CAKE... As far as the coffee it's just not possible to deliver a food product in those quantities that is exceptional. I like a mocha or a latte once in a while, but they are more like a piece of candy than a daily expense...
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    The LED Museum *WILL* be moving again soon. :(

    you might want to remind your sister how much money she's spending just to be in the city proper. For a grand a month you can rent a really killer place if you're willing to be an extra 30 or 45 minutes drive further away from your parents. My first 2 mortgages weren't $1000 a month! But then I...
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    LED House bulb are these claims true?

    Yup. I have a couple of these. There are actually 2 different kinds. There is a 120v model with a GU10 base and a 12v model with the standard mr16 pins. I have some of the 12v ones in some low voltage outdoor lighting and they work pretty good. I tried to replace the GU10 lamps in our bathroom...
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    The History and Foundation of CPF

    While the Alexa graphs are pretty, they dont really mean anything. http://slashdot.org/articles/07/07/23/152243.shtml The data is tragically flawed.
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    Possible causes of general weakness, lack of energy?

    it's hard to get a work up for this kind of thing. There is so much goofy information floating around out there on similar things that people go to their docs with a long list of potential problems that the doc never heard of and would have no recommendations for anyway since no studies have...
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