Re: Anyone moved to LED Lighting?

[Bob Villa <pheeh.zero@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 20, 5:52=A0pm, "Stormin Mormon"
<cayoung61**spambloc...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sadly, wasn't Lary this time. Though, he must be a hoot in
> real life, whoever it is that plays Larry the cable guy.
>
> I had some trouble with my cable recentl. I called for a
> tech to come out, and Dennis was the one who arried. Tall
> guy in his twenties, seems to know hs stuff. As he looked to
> find the power plug, he pulled a three D-cell Mag out of his
> back pocket, with a practiced motion.
>
> I noticed it was a LED bulb mag. Asked about that, and he
> told me a little about it. Formerly was a filament bub =A0mag,
> and he bought the LED bulb only, and put that in. He said
> it's a lot better on batteries. I asked about that, and this
> is what he told me.
>
> One time he was in a crawl space, and forgot and left it in
> the crawl space. Turned on. It was the wekend, and he was
> able to get back to recover his light, three days later. The
> light was still on, having run for three days all the time.
> he says he was able to use it for about a week after that,
> on the same batteries, before having to replace the
> batteries.
>
> I'm totally amazed. He sounded like he was telling the
> truth. Wow! That's a long time on one set of batteries.
>
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> "JimH" <J...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Josepi wrote:
> > LEDs are still reported to only be slightly more efficient
> > than incandescent
> > bulbs.
>
> I know my LED flashlight can run for hours and hours, while
> the
> incandescent flashlight burns through batteries quickly
> while providing
> less light.

Just think...when they perfect LEDs for headlights...we won't have to
yell at the wife for draining down the battery!

bob_v