I have several of these types of bulbs. I love the vintage look but the gold tint on some of the bulbs is annoying - it makes them way too yellow for my taste.
Incan or led?
I have a couple of Feit LED bulbs and a few of the incandescent ones Fashion Lighting (Loew's) incandescent ones with the tinted glass. I'm wondering if the tint is on the outside and is perhaps chemically removable.
Oh and an observation, the Fashion bulbs from Lowes smell like burnt gunpowder. :thinking: I don't know if it's something in the cardboard box, the bulb coating or maybe even an air sample from the manufacturing plant, but it's quite noticeable.
Couldn't you just hang on the Christmas tree, instead of using nail polish remover to get yellow off?
Also, didn't they outlaw sub 30lpw?
I also assume no usa patent infringement by using a noble gas to heatsink.
And, what of the pf of these Feit? Is the pf corrected by the yellow tint?
Oh and an observation, the Fashion bulbs from Lowes smell like burnt gunpowder. :thinking: I don't know if it's something in the cardboard box, the bulb coating or maybe even an air sample from the manufacturing plant, but it's quite noticeable.
They were lasting too long, so the makers held a conference and agreed to make them last much shorter (source: npr podcast)
I don't want to sound anti incan. I assume everyone here knows of the 114 year old constantly burning incan. It seems early incans were made of much thicker wire. They were lasting too long, so the makers held a conference and agreed to make them last much shorter (source: npr podcast) . I was raised in era of 1100 hours. This had me constantly changing bulbs; Took up half my youth! Cfls have been more my speed. Plan to fully switch to led, only when 4 watts does closer to 600 lumens, and I feel better about led heat sinking and controller life. And, 10k hours is up on all my remaining cfls. (The led filament gas scheme to remove heat to the clear glass envelope -where the consumer can feel-, together with over 200 lpw strips, would go far to assuage heat fears.)
http://www.centennialbulb.org
So, don't worry about the smell. You won't notice it 100 years from now.
This is true, but what NPR and everyone who brings this up as proof of "planned obsolescence" ignore is that the old thicker wire bulbs also had terrible efficiency. The shorter lifetime is a design consequence of having a brighter bulb for the same amount of power. For general purpose applications, this is a perfectly fine compromise.
You could (and still can) buy 10k+ hour bulbs. You could also easily set up a normal incandescent to burn for centuries continuously if you wanted. You would just find it so dim that it would be worthless.
...So, don't worry about the smell. You won't notice it 100 years from now.
The ban (or rather, the approval requirement) only covers general purpose light bulbs. Specialty bulbs are not affected at all. So anything incandescent but not A19 is still legal to sell. That's unlikely to change anytime soon.