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   Tyler (tyler@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 10:38:15 JST Tyler
   Unreliable over hyped pieces of shit
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 10:40:35 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @sapphire @BasedLord @tyler I have CFLs running 12 years now and LEDs at about 10. The first few generations of LED were awesome until they started making them with garbage boards with insufficient heatsinks.
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     Tyler (tyler@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 10:40:36 JST Tyler

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     Yeah
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     sapphire (sapphire@shortstacksran.ch)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 10:40:36 JST sapphire

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     @tyler @BasedLord I’ve had the same LEDs for 10 years lol but the cheap shit ones are worse than cheap shit incandescent
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     ????? ??ℝ? ™ (basedlord@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 10:40:37 JST ????? ??ℝ? ™

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     LED?
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 10:43:20 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @sj_zero @BasedLord @tyler @sapphire Basically just need to underpower an existing LED. Could a dimmer do the trick?
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     sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 10:43:21 JST sj_zero

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     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klaJqofCsu4
     
     Relevant
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 10:45:06 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @tyler I remember buying some of those Edison bulbs when I redid a bathroom 10 years ago. They are so dark they make the room look like orange garbage. At least the real ones have a red undertone.
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 12:42:36 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @sj_zero @BasedLord @tyler @sapphire You run your 4 watt bulb at 2 watt and it lasts 4x as long. That's in Dubai where it's so hot they air condition the outside on the commercial areas... I bet actual habitable areas with temperate climates could pull much higher lifespans, and simply upgrading the heat sink might be enough to triple it. I remember my old led gen 1 and 2 bulbs had radiator fins on the neck and some of them even had a small fan in there. Weird how those ones last forever and the new ones suck...
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     sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 12:42:37 JST sj_zero

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     I wonder what would happen if someone tried to wire up a European 220v light bulb to an American 120v light socket? The active current regulation chip would presumably try to keep the current the same, and the voltage across each LED would be half, so as long as you're hitting the minimum threshold voltage, you should be driving those LEDs way less. Pick up a 100W equivalent bulb, it's suddenly putting out 50W equivalent, I'd guess you'd have a bulb that lasts more or less forever.
     
     Or maybe not?
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     Tyler (tyler@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 12:50:46 JST Tyler

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     It's literally a conspiracy
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 12:50:46 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @tyler @BasedLord @sapphire @sj_zero Planned obsolescence would be one of the first things to target under any government system that actually gave a hoot about reducing waste. Curiously absent from every "green new deal" type thing.
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     sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 13:43:43 JST sj_zero

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     Yep. Design your shit to last forever and design your shit to be repairable if it does break. 90% of things we replace would never be replaced in our lifetimes after that. "But the companies will go our of business!" maybe or maybe they can try to create stuff we actually want to buy instead of just selling us progressively worse versions of the same shit year after year.
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     VIc FooReeee (vicfury@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 18:05:16 JST VIc FooReeee

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     @sj_zero @BasedLord @tyler @BowsacNoodle @sapphire led aren't driven directly by the AC current. there's a driver that converts AC to DC for the LED. most can run on 100 to 240v the heat is mostly from the loss in power convention to DC.

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     sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 18:05:16 JST sj_zero

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     The AC/DC conversion is just a bridge rectifier and some smoothing caps. They tend to be pretty minimal power draws.
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     Sir Nedwood (ned@noauthority.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 18:15:31 JST Sir Nedwood

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     @sj_zero @BasedLord @tyler @BowsacNoodle @sapphire I have never sold something to a client with the hope that it will break and they need to buy a new one. But the things that do break are 1/5 if the price of one's that don't. Cheap shit, buy 2. That's how it works these days.

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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 18:16:43 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @ned @sj_zero @BasedLord @tyler @sapphire I guess that's probably true in a lot of industries, but the cheap shit has gotten too expensive for a lot of people to be able to buy two. Kind of sucks big time.