8 Nov
2014
8 Nov
'14
10:44 a.m.
Over the past couple of years, I've replaced the
dark-activated 7W
"night lights" in my home with modern white LED ones. Big
mistake--after about 2 years, they're much dimmer than they started
out to be.
Yeah, "white LED"s are pretty close to white, but only sort-of LEDs.
They're fluorescent lights driven by (IIRC) ultraviolet LEDs, and they
have the dimming-with-age issues most fluorescent lights do.
I didn't replace the EL or neon night-lights and
they're all still
fine.
Yeah. Up here (Ontario), some misguided fool[%] has managed to get
100W incandescents banned. (Well, not entirely. Just manufacture or
import of them. Possession and use are still permitted. Also, there
are some exceptions, such as rough-service bulbs.)
I don't get it. Or maybe I do.
Yeah, as near as I can figure it's a planned-obsolescence play, dressed
up in "green" rhetoric, by the makers of the various short-life bulbs.
I wrote about this a little on my blah; see
http://ftp.rodents-montreal.org/mouse/blah/2011-11-13-1.html, the two
footnotes in particular.
[%] Assuming you don't push the causality back far enough to reach
someone with a vested interest in this campaign....
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