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  1. idleprocess

    Outdoor motion sensor lights

    In a region with 6 months' of air conditioning season and a neighborhood with electric ovens and dryers, LED lighting is a drop in the bucket. I could look into this, however their proliferation over the years suggests there's nothing in the law to mitigate this. Frame your business's...
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    Outdoor motion sensor lights

    I've been noticing a trend in my neighborhood of motion sensor lights getting installed that trigger on ... anything ... the sensor can detect. Someone walking along the sidewalk. A vehicle driving in the street. Detritus blowing in the wind. A small animal roving around. Someone walking on...
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    Nearly half of U.S. households use LED bulbs for all or most of their indoor lighting

    The early LED bulbs were chonkers relative to what we have today. The first tentative 40W equivalent bulbs barely hit rated lumen output, generally weren't omnidirectional, sported immense heatsinks, got incredibly hot, asked more than $20 per example, and still had high failure rates. The...
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    Nearly half of U.S. households use LED bulbs for all or most of their indoor lighting

    Conversely I've got a low-end Feit bulb that's been running all but continuously (perhaps 14 days' total downtime) in a semi-enclosed fixture since 2012.
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    Nearly half of U.S. households use LED bulbs for all or most of their indoor lighting

    I've got a box of those around somewhere. I recall a string of failures from some in the box thus never bothered depleting it. Last CFLs in service in the house are these freaking >10 year old immortal candelabra base bulbs in a fixture over the stairs; when those die I'm replacing the fixture...
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    Nearly half of U.S. households use LED bulbs for all or most of their indoor lighting

    Those remote phosphor panels surely contributed to the high price.
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    Nearly half of U.S. households use LED bulbs for all or most of their indoor lighting

    Got some 90CRI 5000K Cree bulbs for the office last year and there was a distinct increase in pop as well as perceived brightness vs their predacessors - the original Cree bulb. I got the original alien head Philips - which bore a strong resemblance to the L-Prize bulb - circa 2011 and it was a...
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    Nearly half of U.S. households use LED bulbs for all or most of their indoor lighting

    In Theory™, purpose-built fixtures should have better optics and thermals for LED. I'm aware that reality does not always align with theory. Demand dispatch should be something that's encouraged with voluntary, positive incentives - i.e. you agree to allow certain loads to be switched off up...
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    Nearly half of U.S. households use LED bulbs for all or most of their indoor lighting

    I'm good with this. You're good with this. We can shake hands and both walk away victorious.
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    Nearly half of U.S. households use LED bulbs for all or most of their indoor lighting

    Oh I'll know what I'm 'missing' and won't much miss it at all. Sure old-school incandescents were all theoretically ~100 CRI, but that's because they're blackbody radiators, which can be deficient in green/blue spectrum yet still hit that high CRI value. Halogens didn't move the needle much...
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    School me on Fluorescent Fixture Conversion to LED

    I've done about 100 retrofits these at the local makerspace with single-ended tubes using the following method: While the lengths and arrangement is specific to their fleet of quad-tube T12 fixtures, the single-ended wiring is immensely simpler - and uses less wire - than both ends. You will...
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    School me on Fluorescent Fixture Conversion to LED

    The ballast-compatible tubes are there for convenience, however they're dependent on the ballast remaining operational - a wear component that adds nothing to the system. If you've got the means and are comfortable performing the work I recommend bypassing the ballast altogether; mains-powered...
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    LED street lights are gradually turning purple in Charlotte

    Saw a purple-ish fixture recently in the general DFW area and wondered if it was the same failure mode.
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    LED downlight with dim to warm starting at 4000k?

    Used to have an oddball 3500K circline floro fixture in my dining room that was fantastic. Only retired it because the ballast seemingly went out and spare ballasts/tubes were pricey/hard to locate. I would use 3500K everywhere if it were available as LED in common bulb formfactors...
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    LED downlight with dim to warm starting at 4000k?

    4000K is a color temperature that major OEMs experimented with several years ago and the market largely rejected, settling into the present 5000/3000/2700 slots - much to my disappointment since I find 4000K easier on the eyes than 5000K without the penalty to concentration and visual focus that...
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    LED street lights are gradually turning purple in Charlotte

    Some lower end "enhanced CRI" white LED + red LED model with phosphor degradation, thus purple?
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    Looking for a 'tripwire' flashlight

    Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Every evening I have the often humbling experience of trying to manage the process of starting to walk the dogs. A series of things has to happen in about 30 seconds: Grab hat Grab crap sacks Collect the leashes that the mutts have...
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    Looking for a 'tripwire' flashlight

    I have a generic 3xAA model that I got off of a surplus site years ago that I have used in the guest bathroom (infrequently used). If positioned so as to minimize nuisance trips it lasted 3-6 months on a set of LSD 2Ah NiMH cells. Mr Beams is a brand that's had some staying power on the likes...
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    Looking for a 'tripwire' flashlight

    PIR sensors - which those appear to use - consume power, thus I'd expect to be swapping cells on a schedule.
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    Looking for a 'tripwire' flashlight

    I'd think that a battery box type arrangement with a standard on/off toggle switch and the tripwire removing an insulator from one of the battery contacts would be the way to go.

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