[AT] Battery Charger recommendations

[Stephen Offiler]

Normally I'd tend to trust any of the big names (e.g. Osram, Sylvania,
Cree, GE, etc) but Ron Cook seems to be having trouble with Cree.  Not at
all sure if maybe a bad batch might have slipped out or if there's a bigger
problem. Then again, if there is a bigger problem with Cree, you can trust
Google to find the people bitching about it!  I have several 40W equivalent
and 60W equivalent Osram brand in warm white, and I think they're
fantastic.  My wife has no idea they are LED's and she's very picky about
the off-colors you can get with fluorescents.

When I got my LED bulbs, at Lowe's, there was a deal with the local power
company giving instant rebates at the cash register.  I paid $3 each for
the 40W and $4 each for the 60W and I am still kicking myself for not going
back and buying another dozen or two.

SO


On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Mike M <meulenms at gmx.com> wrote:

> My daughter works at a hardware store, and told me they were already
> phasing out  CFL's, which in my opinion were in my opinion a bad short
> term solution to a long term problem. Think of all the mercury that
> ended up in landfills or was mishandled by people who were unaware of
> how to handle a broken CFL. Steve, how can you tell a good LED from an
> el cheapo other than price. I'll probably wait another year and then
> make the switch. The only one's I may change sooner are the mercury
> vapor lights that run from dawn to dusk on the barn. Might be some
> savings there.
>
> Regards,
> Mike M
>
>
> On 4/26/2016 4:20 PM, Steve W. wrote:
> > Mike M wrote:
> >> You can still buy high wattage incandescent bulbs, I just ordered some
> >> 300 watt bulbs for our barn. The CFL's take too long to warm up and are
> >> dangerous in my opinion, I have witnessed them burning and burning brown
> >> by the base. Not good in a barn with dry wood and hay. I'll eventually
> >> make the transition to LED's but right now I can't find one that is
> >> affordable that will throw the lumens the 300 watt one will. I have
> >> noticed that cost of them is dropping like a stone. They should have
> >> known only early adopters would pay $40 a bulb.
> >>
> >> Mike M
> > I switched everything over to LED. House, shop, exterior lighting. This
> > was the middle of last year. I will NEVER go back to incandescents or
> > fluorescent lamps unless there is no other option for a particular item.
> > LEDs LOVE the cold, they actually get brighter the more heat you can
> > pull from the diode junctions.
> >
> > Running the numbers on them 75% of them are already paid for in savings,
> > the others are not on long enough to get a rapid ROI.
> >
> > Only complaints are
> >
> > 1- some of the cheap ones have power supplies with piss poor shielding
> > so they toss out a LOT of RF hash. (Remedied most of this with common
> > aluminum duct tape added as a shield in the housing)
> >
> > 2- due to the location of one outside light and it's relative position
> > to the road I have to adjust the flood bulb down when the trees are
> > bare. This is because the bright point source light from an LED looks
> > VERY VERY bright from that angle. Even off axis it appears very bright,
> > although it throws very little light at that angle.
> >
> >
> >
>
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