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carte 1 year ago
Regular led bulb > regular incandescent imo They fail less and have less duds out of the package(in my extensive experience) and don't heat up to dangerous temperatures (which causes many issues beyond the fire hazard). They also use 1/10th of the power The positives for incandescents are that they don't dim as much over time and they are cheaper to make. The things I care about as an electrician are the things in column A.

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Also, as soon as they started sponsoring the CFL bulbs, the incandescent bulb quality went through the floor and what would last years started lasting months.
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carte 1 year ago
Yeah, that's about as interesting to me as astrology. Light is light. What changes is the spectrum and that can be set at any wavelength with LEDs. There is no meaningful amount of anything else radiating from an incandescent light. The fact that it's a piece of molten tungsten doesn't make the light different than a cold diode of the same color.