The Old Folks Home

[ozexpat]

There was a huge debate on this before they look them off the market.  People are still outrages.  I bought 48 40watt bulbs before they sold out but I missed all the bigger.  I got them on Amazon and when I tried to buy another box of 24 the price was tripled. 

I did not know incandescent lights are off the market in the USA. I thought they just stopped production of 100Watt.

I am using 37w 110v flood lights on an AVR in my brooders at night as an experiment to see if they last longer.

I think I can drop to 25 watts

 

[perchie.girl]

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You can still get rough duty light bulbs like for Refrigerators and heat lamps... Anything that has a dimmer has to have Incandescent.... I never bought into the fluorescent because I knew what was in them... I knew the LEDS would eventully push the flourescents out. At the house when a bulb goes out i will replace with an LED. Everyone talks about the heat they generate.... but I have no problems building a DC lighting circuit... it would be a perfect fit for people who have solar power.

Oh I do ramble on...

deb

 

[Alaskan]

1 more windy day and the leaves will be gone. Suppose to snow Thursday....

How is it Alaskan and vehve are farther north but its colder here.... Not fair. Darn that ocean and it effects.

well, I will cry with you...

and just so you know...we have had ice on the waterers in the mornings, the leaves are rapidly falling, and there is frost outside in the mornings.

We have had our first "EEK! We are going to be late because I forgot to factor in de-icing the car's windshield!"

I am a bit panicked that I won't get all digging at the new bantam coop finished before the dirt turns into rock.

 

[LindaB220]

You can still get rough duty light bulbs like for Refrigerators and heat lamps... Anything that has a dimmer has to have Incandescent.... I never bought into the fluorescent because I knew what was in them... I knew the LEDS would eventully push the flourescents out. At the house when a bulb goes out i will replace with an LED. Everyone talks about the heat they generate.... but I have no problems building a DC lighting circuit... it would be a perfect fit for people who have solar power.

Oh I do ramble on...

deb

I need to research this as well, I didn't understand most of what you said.

The LEDS part

 

[hennible]

well, I will cry with you...  and just so you know...we have had ice on the waterers in the mornings, the leaves are rapidly falling, and there is frost outside in the mornings.

We have had our first "EEK!  We are going to be late because I forgot to factor in de-icing the car's windshield!"

I am a bit panicked that I won't get all digging at the new bantam coop finished before the dirt turns into rock.

Ahhh yuck! I seriously forgot about de-iceing the windshield.... Winter is like childbirth you forget how bad it really is :/

 

[drumstick diva]

I'm no traveler but, I would never head for an area called "DEATH VALLEY" sound prophetic. Yes, the years fly by. I can't believe how things pass in the blink of an eye. My brother says that perception has to do with age.


If you are ten years old, a year is a 10th. of your life. At 70, a year is 1/70th of your life. I don't know what the heck that means but, my brother went to college and got 2 degrees, while I was just a dog groomer.

 

[perchie.girl]

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Light Emitting Diodes.... they are teeny and produce alot of light very cheaply... But they run off Direct Current. The first ones I saw commercially were in those really bright flashlights.

In order to run off of Alternating Current they have to have a converter.... to fool the light that its really DC... That wastes a little bit of energy. any time you convert you do. But the trade off is good with new technology.

Oh and they handle dimming quite nicely....

deb

 

[hennible]

If you are ten years old,  a year is a 10th. of your life.   At 70, a year is  1/70th of your life.  I don't know what the heck that means but, my brother went to college and got 2 degrees, while I was just a dog groomer.

Think you brother was onto something... Perception of a year changes as you age, because a year is a bigger percent in comparison to your total time lived when your young and as you age a year is a lower percent... You what I mean ( I hope )
Maybe it's just bed time...

Wonder what Bama knows about LEDs.... Guess its his neighbours power bill though why worry

 

[drumstick diva]

Hennible - give up, I am hopeless

. I still wonder why I can talk to people farther away via phone, than 2 cans linked by a string!

 

[vehve]

 

 

 
300 per month? Whoa. That's a lot. And then heating on top of that? Jeez.

yep, heating times two on top of that. 

The fuel oil runs one big space heater that heats the bedrooms/bathrooms/ and laundry room half of the house, and it also runs an on demand water heater.

The wood heats the kitchen and living room half of the house.

We have two little electric space heaters if we can't get enough heat to the bedrooms.  We kinda like to keep the house above 40F when we are seeping.

The fuel oil runs me between 2 and 3 thousand a year, and then the wood is about $800.

this is very interesting....  I was under the assumption you guys were on the same Latitude....  Is it the ocean temperature difference...  Or am I just geographically wrong....

 

deb

Yep, about same Latitude, I am at 59...I think he said he was at 58??????

He is warmer though, which I find ODD!  He said he gets warm water....but how does it get all the way around Sweden and up to him?  I thought the Baltic was super cold.  Dunno, never swam in it.....

I get warm water from Japan....toasty in many ways    but I am colder than he is...... I am also pretty high up, at about 1,250 feet....what elevation is he at?

60 here. I live about a kilometer from the sea, so I'm not that much above it. The ground here is a bit elevated, so maybe 15 meters above?

The Gulf stream keeps our climate a bit warmer, it doesn't affect us as much as it does Norway or the UK, but still a bit.

And our house is better insulated, I think. And we've got heat reflecting triple glazed windows.

Is it for ventilation you open the windows? A central ventilation system would be more efficient, plus you could capture heat.