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wayfinder
Jul 7, 2003

Shaggar posted:

wow. 4.88/bulb. cheap as gently caress

the pure white ones are :10bux: more though

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Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006
doh ho ho!

Powerful Two-Hander
Mar 10, 2004

Mods please change my name to "Tooter Skeleton" TIA.


Necc0 posted:

i have a friend who gets a headache whenever we walk into a trendy bar with led lighting. idk if it's the pure white light or maybe the particular frequency idk. sucks for him though welcome to the future bitch lol

he's gotta wear shades indoors obviously

:pcgaming:

atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


We're in the business of extending man's senses.
LEDs suck because the heatsink gets really hot and you can burn yourself on it, unlike normal light bulbs

PS. Love the cabin
Dec 30, 2011
Bee Lincoln
i get my incandescent bulbs from the dollar store
worksforme
wontfix

BangersInMyKnickers
Nov 3, 2004

I have a thing for courageous dongles

Necc0 posted:

i have a friend who gets a headache whenever we walk into a trendy bar with led lighting. idk if it's the pure white light or maybe the particular frequency idk. sucks for him though welcome to the future bitch lol

there isn't a "frequency" so probably just the color spectrum or mental problems

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006

Necc0 posted:

i have a friend who gets a headache whenever we walk into a trendy bar with led lighting. idk if it's the pure white light or maybe the particular frequency idk. sucks for him though welcome to the future bitch lol

are they like regular LEDs and not defused bulbs? non-defused LEDs are obnoxious garbage.

Jerry Bindle
May 16, 2003
some LED lights use a switching power supply that really can be obnoxious if that switching noise makes its way to the light output

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band

fart simpson posted:

actually, theres no such thing as pure white light

#lumengate

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD
Jul 7, 2012

Necc0 posted:

i have a friend who gets a headache whenever we walk into a trendy bar with led lighting. idk if it's the pure white light or maybe the particular frequency idk. sucks for him though welcome to the future bitch lol
whole lotta trendy bars in arlington eh

Jerry Bindle
May 16, 2003
the biggest irl sperg i know is obsessed with LEDs. the first time i invited him over to my house, other people brought beer or snacks, well he brought the dopest LED light bulb i have. i think its a phillips slimstyle, it is great.

Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes



poast pictures you doofuses

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

by VideoGames
Salad Prong

PS. Love the cabin posted:

incandescents are still the best bulbs
everything else is trash

yea, if you're a racist grandpa who's gonna die decades before an led will lmbo

Shaggar posted:

are they like regular LEDs and not defused bulbs? non-defused LEDs are obnoxious garbage.

diffused, bro

PS. Love the cabin
Dec 30, 2011
Bee Lincoln

fishmech posted:

yea, if you're a racist grandpa who's gonna die decades before an led will lmbo

no to the first, hopefully to the second

atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


We're in the business of extending man's senses.

fishmech posted:

diffused, bro

Fishmeched again :rolleyes:

Necc0
Jun 30, 2005

by exmarx
Broken Cake

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:

whole lotta trendy bars in arlington eh

or dc but yeah. bar in question is don titos though. those led strips on the roof make his brain blow up

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD
Jul 7, 2012

tbf those tacos look Fuckin' Dank™

Necc0
Jun 30, 2005

by exmarx
Broken Cake
dude all their food is off the hook. if you feel like being a fatass their giant burrito is Extremely Good

DiggityDoink
Dec 9, 2007

Necc0 posted:

i have a friend who gets a headache whenever we walk into a trendy bar with led lighting. idk if it's the pure white light or maybe the particular frequency idk. sucks for him though welcome to the future bitch lol

better than fluorescent ones with a dying ballast. i can hear those fuckers from a mile away and it almost always clashes with the ringing in my ear, driving me apeshit

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde
i just buy w/e lightbulbs are the most expensive at the hardware store

my house is now filled w/ floodlights in every room and lamp

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

I got led headlights for my motorcycles and mother of god they're bright. It's awesome especially for my old 1971 bike that came with a 25 watt bulb that was about as bright as a candle, but the alternator is to weak run anything more powerful. led draws 21 watts and is at least as bright as a 65 watt halogen

Amazing how technology has progressed in only 45 years

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde
what are those lightbulb sockets w/ two posts instead of the threading

those piss me off so bad

Syncopated
Oct 21, 2010
i live by the light of my computer screen

Lightbulb Out
Apr 28, 2006

slack jawed yokel

Syncopated posted:

i live by the light of my computer screen

well is the backlight an LED or a CFL?

brand engager
Mar 23, 2011

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

what are those lightbulb sockets w/ two posts instead of the threading

those piss me off so bad

bayonet style sockets

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

by VideoGames
Salad Prong

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

what are those lightbulb sockets w/ two posts instead of the threading

those piss me off so bad

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-pin_connector

they exist because the fixture has some weird requirements or limitations, so they keep you from loving up with a normal bulb that could wreck it

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

what are those lightbulb sockets w/ two posts instead of the threading

those piss me off so bad

GU something something. I hate them too. Somehow they incinerate themselves and disintegrate without any indication until you go to change the bulb and a bunch of ceramic rubble falls out

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

Yeah I bet you're thinking of a GU10

Optimus_Rhyme
Apr 15, 2007

are you that mainframe hacker guy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rWrccMjNGE

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

fishmech posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-pin_connector

they exist because the fixture has some weird requirements or limitations, so they keep you from loving up with a normal bulb that could wreck it

GU10 twist lock is what i was thinkin of

feels good to put a label to that which i hate

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

"From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.
Buglord

Kenny Logins
Jan 11, 2011

EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A WHITE WHALE INTO THE PEQUOD. IT'S HELL'S HEART AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I STRIKE AT THEE ALONGSIDE WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER, ISHMAEL.
was this photo taken in fallout 3 or something

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006

fishmech posted:

yea, if you're a racist grandpa who's gonna die decades before an led will lmbo


diffused, bro
lol

NoneMoreNegative
Jul 20, 2000
GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN
MASTER




shit wizard dad

I fucken hate stage LED lighting - lovely and colourful for the audience, plays merry hell with a camera CCD sensor with narrow bands of colour wavelength making up the output.

BangersInMyKnickers
Nov 3, 2004

I have a thing for courageous dongles

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

what are those lightbulb sockets w/ two posts instead of the threading

those piss me off so bad

those are typically "good" because they separate the bulb from the ballast so you can service them independently instead of throwing the whole assembly away

sticky wizard
Nov 19, 2008

i prefer the analog light from an incandescent, the aesthetic is much warmer

Mo_Steel
Mar 7, 2008

Let's Clock Into The Sunset Together

Fun Shoe

Segmentation Fault
Jun 7, 2012

baman piderman viral advertising looking good

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually

Syncopated posted:

i live by the light of my computer screen
i just wear night vision goggles all the time after dark

i save a bundle on lightbulbs and i get to pretend i live in a rainbow six computer game

also to be more like my hero james "buffalo bill" gumm

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cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




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