[AT] Battery Charger recommendations

[charlie hill]

Steve,  I'll look at one, in fact I might buy one just to break it and see 
but
I'm 99% sure what the guy is selling is a Chinese made incandescent bulb.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Stephen Offiler
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 4:28 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Battery Charger recommendations

Charlie, just one quick point here.  The legislation that "outlawed" 100
watt incandescent bulbs was written to specify a minimum efficiency, stated
as lumens (light output) per watt of electricity input.  They set the
number at a point that a normal old incandecent bulb could not achieve.
But here's the trick:  a *halogen* bulb with a filament operated at a
certain elevated temperature is able to hit the efficiency number.  If you
can look inside those Chinese bulbs you mentioned, I bet you will see one
of those long slender halogen bulbs (a smaller version of those 300- and
500-watt halogen floodlight bulbs).  But beware; because they have to raise
the filament temperature to hit the efficiency number, they have short life.

SO


On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 2:45 PM, charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
wrote:

> I fully agree about the LED bulbs as well as the compact fluorescent.
> I don't particularly like either but the LED's are light years (pun
> intended)
> ahead of the fluorescent.   I thought the whole idea of pushing these
> alternatives to incandescent bulbs was to "save the planet" by saving some
> energy.  The incandescent bulbs were outlawed.  100 watt went first and
> then
> 75 and then 60 or so I was told.  GE's plants in Goldsboro, NC (near me)
> and
> Winchester, VA were shut down and hundreds of American workers lost their
> jobs all in the name of switching to more efficient and "planet friendly"
> alternatives.
> Jump forward a few months.  Last week  I was in the local corner store. 
> My
> neighbor
> was in there inquiring about getting some incandescent bulbs.  I chuckled
> and said good
> luck with that.  The store owner spoke up and said, "no, I think I have
> some.  He went on
> to say he'd been able to get them.  We walked back to the shelf where they
> are kept and
> LO and BEHOLD there were several boxes of 100 watt incandescent bulbs
> MARKED
> MADE IN CHINA.
>
> Yet another sham pulled on American working people.   I guess they don't
> contribute to so called
> "global warming" if they are made in China and brought 13,000 miles by way
> of ship rather than
> making them 60 miles up the road with American workers.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Offiler
> Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 2:23 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Battery Charger recommendations
>
> I'm having great success with LED light bulbs.  I believe mine are Osram,
> but, I am pretty familiar with the LED industry and Cree has an excellent
> reputation.  What kind of fixture are you using them in?  LED's don't
> produce all that much heat (say, in relation to an incandescent bulb) but,
> on the other hand they do not tolerate heat.  Typically they have
> signficant heat-sinks built in to control heat, but restrictive light
> fixtures could play havoc.
>
> SO
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Ron Cook <ron at lakeport-1.com> wrote:
>
> > Charlie,
> >
> > I have heard positive response similar to yours on those engines.
> >
> > Last August I bought 6 CREE LED light bulbs at Home Depot.  They are
> > maybe supposed to last 20 years, but only if you do not use them.  They
> > conveniently left off that disclaimer.  Last night while working on a 3
> > horse John Deere E engine, the third one went out.  More junk!
> >
> > Ron Cook, Salix, IA
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 4/25/2016 10:16 AM, charlie hill wrote:
> > > I don't know about their electrics although I think I have a cheap
> drill
> > > motor or two
> > > and maybe a couple of side grinders from their that I bought to use on
> a
> > job
> > > site,
> > > however, the 6.5 HP, honda knockoff, horizontal shaft engine that I
> > bought
> > > from them
> > > to put on my garden tiller is flawless after three seasons and at the
> > sale
> > > price I paid,
> > > (about $80.00 out the door) it was less than half of the price of the
> > > gas
> > > tank I needed
> > > to repair the 20 year old 5 hp B&S that came on the tiller.
> > >
> > > Charlie
> > >
> >
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