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| PlainName:
--- Quote from: Jackster on April 02, 2023, 10:01:28 am --- --- Quote from: AVGresponding on April 02, 2023, 09:45:34 am ---It's trivially easy to fit LED or HID H-x replacement lamps anyway. --- End quote --- You "have" to replace the whole fixture on most modern cars (pre-LED modern) if you upgrade to LED as the beam pattern is based on filament bulbs. At least in the UK, you should fail MOT (yearly vehicle check to see if it is roadworthy) if you use LED bulbs in a filament-based fixture if the beam is modified outside of spec. --- End quote --- Although it's possible to cheat the MOT (replace with original bulbs just for the test - like bikers would do with loud exhausts) the bigger 'danger' for the driver is insurance. If they want to wiggle out of a claim, a car not MOT-worthy is the easy route. Then you're driving without insurance, and open to a huge world of hurt. |
| schmitt trigger:
I also searched for the original Fox News source, and read it thoroughly. The news piece has this golden nugget, copied verbatim: Former President Donald Trump was also personally opposed to LED light bulb adoption, remarking in 2019 that they are often more expensive, not good and make him "look orange." |
| tooki:
--- Quote from: BrianHG on April 02, 2023, 11:06:58 am --- --- Quote from: tom66 on April 02, 2023, 09:09:07 am ---I don't see any reason incandescent bulbs would be banned on vehicles: 60W per side of power consumption is nothing compared to the 60kW or so required to cruise on the highway for an ICE (after efficiency losses). Far better to phase out ICE vehicles instead... which will eventually happen. Not to make this an EV debate but it's already on the roadmap for most car makers and governments. --- End quote --- And yet, in some US states, it is still currently illegal to have 'Day Beam' headlights or run your headlights during the day because of the slight extra load on your alternator, wasting a few tea-spoons of gas over the year. --- End quote --- No, daytime running lights (not headlights by day in general) were illegal until 1995, when GM successfully convinced the NHTSA to allow them. That was federal vehicle law, not state laws. Every state has conditions under which headlights must be used, and when high beams are and aren’t allowed. None prohibits the use of headlights by day: https://www.yourmechanic.com/article/headlight-use-laws-for-all-50-states |
| nctnico:
--- Quote from: mariush on April 02, 2023, 03:13:59 am ---Incadescent light bulbs can still be bought in Europe ... they just label them "for industrial equipment" , as heating elements for warming fertilized chicken eggs... --- End quote --- Nowadays you'd be a complete idiot to buy incadescent light bulbs for having light in your home. CFL and LED are so much better AND cheaper to run. |
| themadhippy:
so if there banning light bulbs how are we meant to grow more lamps? |
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