7 Nov
2014
7 Nov
'14
7:09 p.m.
On 11/07/2014 06:59 PM, drlegendre . wrote:
Sales guy there once said that the local utility (here
it's Xcel Energy)
subsidizes the prices for some reason.. must be some idiot carbon-cutting /
offsetting regulation crap, or something like that, I'd guess. But FWIW,
that's what we were told. Gotta keep those polar bears in seal blubber, ya
know..
Oh, I think I pay less than $2 the each here, but a lot of those things
are really Chinese crap--and they seldom last their stated life. If all
my fixtures were base-down, they might last longer, but they're not--by
an large, they're IC recessed "cans". One of the reasons that I don't
invest in LED Edison base replacements is that I suspect the electronics
will have its life considerably shortened by thermal issues.
Manufacturers hem and haw about this issue a lot.
--Chuck