I prefer CFL light bulbs because there's just something about the light they output. It just feels more comfy. Probably because the light is diffused. Also the gap of energy efficiency between tungsten and CFL (25%) is greater than that of the gap between CFL and LED which is only 9%. But CFL's are cheaper than LED's (In some places/stores). Yes, I'm biased towards CFLs.
So what's Jow Forums's opinion? What technology is better out of pic related?
Warm CLFs on bedroom and living room, cold CLFs on bathroom and kitchen
Caleb Campbell
>CLF >better light profile than LED >shorter lifespan >not as energy-efficient (gets hot) >takes time to get to full flux >if it breaks you get mercury vapors in your house hmm
Logan Rivera
leds are fine, just don't get the shitty ones with the green overtone in it
Mason Robinson
old light bulbs are the best
Kevin Stewart
This. For me, just the mercury is a reason.
Aaron Perry
In places like a bathroom or just any other place where you’re not going to be running a light all too long a incandescent/Edison bulb is nice For general purpose lighting I see nothing wrong with LEDs as they are cheap in the US and give off a better light than CFL IMO
Isaiah Murphy
>incandescent: soul >CFL: soulless
I hope LEDs can save us from this sterile white light nightmare that is CFLs
Josiah Gonzalez
>average life span of 25000 hours >dies in 3 months - 1 year Fuck LEDs. Last time I replaced a CFL in my house was in 2015. LEDs are a fucking scam.
Lincoln Brooks
Incandescent.
It's more natural light than either CFL or LED, it's cheaper to manufacture, it's extremely simple in design and usage and in the worst-case scenario anyone with glass blowing knowledge can make a really shit one themselves.
The other bulbs are more efficient but the job of a bulb is to make fucking light when you need it.
Ayden Ortiz
Bought my first LED bulbs yesterday, a 6-pack of Great Eagle 100w equivalent 3000k bulbs. They're ridiculously bright, I went from 4 60w bulbs to 2 of these in my bathroom because using all 4 sockets with these was making me go blind while taking a shit. Totally worth the $19. Going to get a 6-pack of the 2700k model some time to make the lighting just a little warmer in my bedroom.
Depends. There is no way I can install CFL on my electric scooter, yet mains 220V bulbs can be installed no problem with minimal tweaking. Cheap 4000K are OK. Cheap 2700K are not, since blue light is reduced too much, and all objects become greenish-red. Cheap 6000K are not, since they don't have much red or green on the ouput, and everything has bluish tint to it.
Gavin Cooper
This. CRI is the most important tech stat that determines the quality of a light. Basically think of it like high colour gamut in monitors
Parker Nguyen
Almost all CFLs I’ve seen are phosphored to have a warm color temperature like incandescents, not sure where the sterile white light comment comes from as in my experience it’s kinda hard to get pure white CFLs
americans often call a room with a toilet the bathroom. bathrooms in america that don't have a bath or shower are the .5 in a "X bed, Y.5 bath" description
Samuel King
>Almost all CFLs I’ve seen are phosphored to have a warm color temperature like incandescents >It’s kinda hard to get pure white CFLs
I agree. Pure white CFLs are usually called cold-white CFLs. They give off more of a bluey-white than pure white.
Jaxson Murphy
Yes, you shit into the drain, and stomp in through.
Thomas Brooks
Soulless "safe" candle vs CHAD real candle
Jeremiah Kelly
That’s not too far out of line I pay $12 for 4 General Electric LED bulbs which have proper constant current LED drivers
Christian Rogers
I pay $0.40 for a CFL.
Henry Harris
What manufacturer?
Jose James
No clue, they are all the same.
Zachary Hughes
LEDs will kill your eye sight due to their high blue light.
Carson Howard
I'm not an expert, but for most uses I'd say LED. You can get all sorts of color temps and such. However, I've heard that the subtle flickering they have is a no-go if you're working with a machine with spinning blades and such. It can make it look like spinning things are standing still or something to that effect. I think the machinists prefer one of the older types for that reason. I've also heard people complain that the majority of LED bulbs have an audible buzzing sound and they have to keep returning bulbs until they get a good one. I think some brands are better for avoiding the noise, but I don't recall which.
Julian Kelly
A friend of mine kept burning out LED bulbs in his kitchen, we finally figured out it was heat death. We took the glass shrouds off the ceiling fan and then it stopped happening. You could also be getting crummy bulbs.
Owen Perry
Werks even with the cheapest CFL. I'm not going to waste money with that piece of shit even again.
Jacob Davis
>Bought an incandescent light bulb from some craftsman 3 years ago >It still fucking works All the other types produce shit light.
Robert Peterson
>Probably because the light is diffused
The amount of diffusion depends solely on the (apparent) size of the light source.
If the incandescent had a frosted bulb it would be more diffused than the fluorescent. If you put a lamp shade over then they would all be equally diffused. If you avoided direct lighting and only bounced the light off a wall/ceiling it would be as diffused as it gets.
Ian White
Ok. So what's the opinion on halogen light bulbs (ES/BC-Type fitting)?
There is no proper word for the room you take a shit on, nor the device you take a shit on. W.C. gets the closest, but even that's a euphemism.
Hunter Cruz
>le blue light meme Excessive blue light only applies to LEDs which have a cool color temperature which is usually above 4000k which was a bit of a thing in the beginning of LEDs as the cool color temp made them seem more brilliant Most LEDs sold are in the 2700k to 3000k range nowadays
Cool color temperature is for daytime use. Offices should have 4000K or higher.
It all looks the same once your eyes have adjusted, but one 4000K bulb in a sea of 3000K bulbs stands out and looks terrible.
My autism made me replace the 2700K bulb in my office's toilet with a 4000K version to match my office's 4000K LED light strips. When your eyes are adjusted to 4000K and you step into a 2700K room it looks dirty.
Bentley King
Toilet is also a euphemism.
Robert Nguyen
>toilet? Means a woman's dress+jewelry+makeup. It's basically saying "ladies dressing room".
I don't care but old money often mock nouveau riche for saying "toilet" instead of "W.C."
Gabriel Torres
Are boomers still in the market for incandescents?
My uncle died and had a fucking shed filled to the brim with these shits
>expensive as fuck >mediocre light intensity >marketed as hip and modern in brushed aluminium housings, looks woefully outdated at this point >burns out all the fucking time with the slightest current fluctuation What's the worst light technology, and why is it halogen spots?
>CFLs have mercury >dealt with dozens of broken CFLs I don't feel so good...
Jeremiah Edwards
I understand cool color temps have their place but to say LEDs have too much blue light that kills your eyes is bullshit especially given the current market for home lighting
Noah Mitchell
old people don't want to accept that the sale of incandescent lamps has been outlawed. the next best thing is halogens
Besides that they're inefficient by nature, and burn out quickly, they produce superior lights. Up until very recently, film studios and photography would use halogens for their lighting. Nowadays it's all CFL and led as the CRI of high-quality lamps is very comparable to halogens
tons of LEDfags ITT. I prefer CFL myself because the light is warmer, but *really* good quality LEDs are prolly the future. youtube.com/watch?v=pAqGpoWLLZc Here's a vid about both and their effects on your house.
Adam Wood
Not really. Cheap CFLs are shit.
Jonathan Sullivan
Agreed, that's bullshit and just shows he doesn't understand how light works.
Aaron Cook
>the next best thing is halogens Not with LEDs to finally free us from the halogen shackles.
Camden Perez
>burn out quickly
Maybe cheap ones? There are some large halogen bulbs used at my workplace that last a few years of being on for 10 hours a day.
Adam Gomez
LED Edison bulbs exist if you want a really warm bulb
Jeremiah Harris
I have these in my home, they are dogshjt
Asher Ward
I can't remember CFLs being a big thing here to begin with, maybe the EU outlawed them quickly due to toxicity, I don't know. I only remember that everything suddenly had halogen spots, and nowadays everything has LEDs.
Levi Morris
Incandescent for house/room use so i wont get fucked by PWM dimming or blue light. LED for outside use.
Jace Gomez
>they produce superior lights. Up until very recently, film studios and photography would use halogens for their lighting.
Photographers don't give a single shit about the "quality" of the light (or at least they shouldn't). It just has to be bright as fuck and all be the same color temperature. All color comes from processing.
Eli Lee
Some places in the EU probably still sell them like the UK. However, the bigger hardware stores in the UK are starting to drop their CFL lines in favour of LED. However, they're still selling Halogen BC and ES/SES bulbs.
Hudson Rodriguez
According to you I guess photographers should just be using high pressure sodium lighting then since they’re bright as fuck and all HPS bulbs are mostly the same color temperature
Noah Evans
Fun fact, place a CFL near a plasma globe and as if by magic the will begin to glow.
>m-muh 2mg of mercury The cooling and circuits behind it is what makes it shit and crap out after a few years halogen is better nice retard good price, enjoy your chinkshit that fails in 2 seconds chinkshit "alhon best ultra super sunbeen mega best life ultra enjoy living 16klumen mega cowboy light" Best lighting solution >HURR LOOK IM RETARDED XDEEE
Ryder Perez
Does it? I've seen lots of people do it and I did it once out of curiosity because "Don't believe everything you hear on the internet".
Aiden Rodriguez
TL light will werk too.
Lincoln Myers
After lots of testing on my own I think that IKEA LED bulbs give the best light, also a great price. I only have ikea leds in my apartment. Just my two cents.
Also fuck CFL.
Hudson Murphy
I personally use Philips LED bulbs
Brody Gray
Place a LED bulb under a black light and the diodes glow
>get a high cri bulb >NO! I HATE blueish daylight in my livingroom.
Nathan Powell
Low pressure sodium.
Colton Bell
The low power lightning has seen its Jesus in the LED technology, and it is still in it's early years, improving over time.
There is really no contest, and no need to buy anything else.
James Turner
I'm using CFLs at the moment. Still seems unnatural. I like that they are warmer though.
If you care about the mercury in them, you are retarded.
Easton Young
LEDs what was the LED light technology that prevents yellowing of daylight bulbs?
Anthony Ross
I thought you Amish people didn't use computers
Caleb Martin
>CFL light bulbs because there's just something about the light they output. It just feels more comfy. It's the opposite of comfy. The light they emit is bland, sad, dead. Acceptable in a garage or a morgue but not comfy at all. Warm LEDs are the way to go.
Nathaniel Turner
LEDs still are not quite the king yet There is a reason LEDs still have a really hard time in the horticulture industry
Blake Hughes
I refuse to buy any LED bulbs that are less than CRI90. I don't understand how anyone can enjoy using low CRI high colour temp bulbs.
Joseph Perez
This isn't 2013 anymore You can buy high CRI LED a with a low color temp
Jackson Mitchell
salutations, fellow esteemed patron of the waffle stomp
Hudson Long
Or even better, find food allergy, that will make poo poo liquid (i.e. lactose, or sea food), and then you'd need only to flush with shower.
Hudson Taylor
Incandescent, because fuck greenies
Christopher Robinson
>thread full of bulbfags >not managing his lights with beautful colored led wires from his phone plebs
Wyatt Morgan
lmao do you also have a google home faggot
Samuel Anderson
>LEDs still have a really hard time in the horticulture industry
The fuck are you talking about? Advanced greenhouses switched to LED years ago. Crops grow much faster under specially designed LED's.