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Titty_baby_’s parents’ patio, probably, soon:
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There's an eternal flame in Daley Plaza in Chicago. It's locally known as the Pigeon Warmer.
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Jul 23, 2023 03:22
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saw two pigeons light themselves on fire there.
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Benagain posted:saw two pigeons light themselves on fire there. This is what it sounds like when doves fry.
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Jul 23, 2023 03:40
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VelociBacon posted:Dessert Storm 
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Jul 23, 2023 11:07
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I'm sorry I didn't see it 
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Jul 23, 2023 11:17
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Dessert Storm should be a large, flat bowl of ice cream covered in graham cracker crumbs, drizzled with dark chocolate. The center is hollowed out and filled with rum. It is lit table side when served.
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Jul 23, 2023 14:04
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Sash! posted:The center is hollowed out and filled with rum. It is lit table side when served. The eye of the storm!
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Jul 23, 2023 14:21
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It has wells of vegetable oil, which are on fire and emitting clouds of black smoke.
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Jul 23, 2023 14:59
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And when you leave the restaurant you take your torch and light everyone else's dish I guess?
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Jul 23, 2023 23:40
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Pretty sure this violates the Geneva Conventions.
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Absolutely not.
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Not to mention the chandelier. When those LEDs go, they will fail 1 at a time every 3 weeks for a year, necessitating several ladder trips to get an up close look at that war crime ceiling piece
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Jul 24, 2023 00:26
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I went to a local open house today that was a flip and there was so much wrong with it, but this got an audible laugh out of me. Other highlights include: -Huge carpenter ant infestation -Noticeably sagging ceilings where load bearing walls were removed -A laundry machine nook where you couldn't open the door to the dryer because the opening was too narrow -No crawlspace access hatch which means the old one was covered up by the new vinyl plank flooring
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Jows posted:Not to mention the chandelier. When those LEDs go, they will fail 1 at a time every 3 weeks for a year, necessitating several ladder trips to get an up close look at that war crime ceiling piece Where have you been buying LEDs from that they have such a high failure rate? Still not a fan of that style chandelier though.
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Jul 24, 2023 02:19
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My experience with LED bulbs it that if one of them fails, replace every one of that brand and model at the same time or you’ll wish that you had.
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Jul 24, 2023 03:29
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I was renting an apartment recently that was brand new and a LED bulb burned out every few months somewhere in the apartment. I am hoping the 70,000 halo fixtures I put in our new house will last a bit longer.
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Jul 24, 2023 05:55
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Cat Hatter posted:Where have you been buying LEDs from that they have such a high failure rate? LED bulbs have a lifespan too, and unless one dies to dirty power or something, when one stops working the others are gonna follow around the same time. Platystemon posted:My experience with LED bulbs it that if one of them fails, replace every one of that brand and model at the same time or you’ll wish that you had. This guy gets it.
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Jul 24, 2023 06:05
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LED "bulbs" are manufactured by capitalists. That's the long and short of it. Only the very shittest ones are sold at retail.
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Jul 24, 2023 06:18
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I went all in on LEDs about a decade ago and I've had to replace maybe one bulb and I have one builder grade fixture that gets left on constantly that's just starting to flicker occasionally.
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Jul 24, 2023 11:24
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I've replaced one LED bulb since 2017 
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I have a lovely CFL bulb in my bedside table lamp that I'm going to be sad when it dies. It takes a long time to get up to full brightness, which turns out to be great when you turn it on in the middle of the night and don't get instantly blinded! Going on like 15 years at this point...
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I have a ceiling fan on which I've put in LED bulbs for three of the four sockets on the light fixture. Why not the fourth? Because if it's all-LED, then when the light is off, one of the bulbs will still faintly glow. Having one incandescent somewhere in the fixture will prevent this. Needless to say, it isn't on a good old fashioned analog switch, but some fancy-rear end electronic thing in the wallplate. I don't know if it's X10 or something else, but I guess whatever tiny control voltage is there at all times is enough to barely light an LED.
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Actual High CRI led bulbs tend to last longer in my experience but it takes digging around.
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Powered Descent posted:I have a ceiling fan on which I've put in LED bulbs for three of the four sockets on the light fixture. Why not the fourth? Because if it's all-LED, then when the light is off, one of the bulbs will still faintly glow. Having one incandescent somewhere in the fixture will prevent this. Needless to say, it isn't on a good old fashioned analog switch, but some fancy-rear end electronic thing in the wallplate. I don't know if it's X10 or something else, but I guess whatever tiny control voltage is there at all times is enough to barely light an LED.
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Jul 24, 2023 19:07
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I've had to put one of these resistors on a fixture before Lutron LUT-MLC https://a.co/d/5yB1jou There's also ones that go between the fixture and the bulb
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Jul 24, 2023 19:47
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Big Clive has a video explaining why this happens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzWz_guJHvY
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moist turtleneck posted:I've had to put one of these resistors on a fixture before Where can I find one of the screw on kind? I've been looking for those for awhile.
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Mynameismud posted:Big Clive has a video explaining why this happens. Well drat. Yes, that's exactly what happens. Cool, I've learned something today.
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I thought it would be a simple thing to purchase separately but I can't find the magic words to get the adaptor by itself without buying a light switch as well https://cyncsupport.gelighting.com/s/article/adaptor-assistance-for-3-wire-smart-switches?language=en_US#Install_Bulb_adaptor
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That video probably more accurately describes what Powered Descent has going on considering the weird switch. My problem with the electromagnetic induction could be fully solved by simply connecting live and neutral the other way round.
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Platystemon posted:My experience with LED bulbs it that if one of them fails, replace every one of that brand and model at the same time or you’ll wish that you had. Thinking about this, assuming you've got a pretty cheap set of bulbs that are only good for 10,000 hours +- 5% that gives you about a 1,000 hour window you could expect your bulbs to die, which is coincidentally how long you could expect an incandescent bulb to last anyway. We're so spoiled by even lovely modern bulbs.
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I’m not talking about the ones that I put in eight years ago that are still going strong. I’m talking about the ones that I put in less than six months ago and had two of six fail in the last month. That is a sign to relamp the whole fixture. The remaining bulbs are on borrowed time already.
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Platystemon posted:I’m not talking about the ones that I put in eight years ago that are still going strong. drat, those are some lovely bulbs.
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I had two incandescent bulbs break in an earthquake in the middle of the night sometime in early 2016. Replaced them with LEDs and haven't really had to think about bulbs since then.  Or rather, I did think about them enough that I eventually replaced both the one in my desk lamp and the one in my living room floor lamp with adjustable ones. Nearly daily use, countless hours of uptime, honestly no clue if I had to replace either one before upgrading. The one that was in the floor lamp is still in my closet as a fully functional spare.
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Uthor posted:I have a lovely CFL bulb in my bedside table lamp that I'm going to be sad when it dies. It takes a long time to get up to full brightness, which turns out to be great when you turn it on in the middle of the night and don't get instantly blinded! Going on like 15 years at this point... I had an old CFL (maybe it was an LED) that was in my guest room since before I moved in that was about as bright as maybe one good candle and it was the only light in the room. I had a friend crashing in there for a while who was unwilling to let me replace it with a 2700k bulb so I had to swipe a 4000k bulb from elsewhere in the house just so you wouldn't bump into things in that room. I don't know how that counts towards longevity.
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moist turtleneck posted:I've had to put one of these resistors on a fixture before I have 3 bulb fixture with an aftermarket dimmer that doesn't work with LED bulbs, even when the dimmer is at 100%. I didn't know you could just add a resistor though, so I've just been operating it with 2 LED bulbs + 1 incandescent instead to add some resistance to the circuit. edit: completely missed the post that started this discussion, which was using the same dumb solution as me lol. moist turtleneck posted:I've had to put one of these resistors on a fixture before Gonna keep this in my back pocket for when I upgrade my dining room candelabra bulbs to LED. Slanderer fucked around with this message at 01:02 on Jul 25, 2023 |
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SpartanIvy posted:I went to a local open house today that was a flip and there was so much wrong with it, but this got an audible laugh out of me. Narc them out, especially if they're making cowboy structural modifications. Your AHJ must have a code compliance department. gently caress lovely house flippers.
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