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| tooki:
--- Quote from: Zoli on April 02, 2023, 03:48:47 pm --- --- Quote from: TERRA Operative on April 02, 2023, 04:19:06 am --- --- Quote from: IdahoMan on April 02, 2023, 02:29:03 am --- I'll tell you one thing, I'll be danged I'm going to put those gay, blue, hideous, over-bright, stabbing, abomination LED lights on my vehicle. Thanks, IM --- End quote --- So, just how are you able to determine the sexuality of an LED light, and why do you think its particular preference is a bad thing? --- End quote --- Gay=Happy, jolly --- End quote --- That’s clearly not what OP meant. They were using the puerile meaning of “gay” to mean “lame”. |
| Zoli:
--- Quote from: tooki on April 02, 2023, 04:57:25 pm --- --- Quote from: Zoli on April 02, 2023, 03:48:47 pm --- --- Quote from: TERRA Operative on April 02, 2023, 04:19:06 am --- --- Quote from: IdahoMan on April 02, 2023, 02:29:03 am --- I'll tell you one thing, I'll be danged I'm going to put those gay, blue, hideous, over-bright, stabbing, abomination LED lights on my vehicle. Thanks, IM --- End quote --- So, just how are you able to determine the sexuality of an LED light, and why do you think its particular preference is a bad thing? --- End quote --- Gay=Happy, jolly --- End quote --- That’s clearly not what OP meant. They were using the puerile meaning of “gay” to mean “lame”. --- End quote --- Another example of misinterpretation "justified by modern times"; personally, I stick to the complete meanings, and I will promote the lost meanings; welcome to my fight. I understand and accept that the language is a live, changing entity; at the same time I remember:"Those who forget the past, are doomed to repeat it". For our future discussions, please remember. Thank you. |
| BrianHG:
--- Quote from: Stray Electron on April 02, 2023, 01:05:58 pm --- --- Quote from: BrianHG on April 02, 2023, 11:06:58 am --- 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, .... --- End quote --- really? source? I haven't heard this. although it wouldn't surprise me in some of the People's Republics. --- End quote --- Back in the early 90s, when daybeams first became mandatory here in Canadian cars, I was stopped for speeding driving down south to Florida and the cop said I was not allowed to have my headlights on during the daytime (unless bad weather) and I said it wasn't possible to turn off the daybeams. I believe it was in the N or S Carolina. |
| james_s:
--- 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 --- You don't see any reason because you're an engineer (or something like it anyway) and understand that distinction. Politicians on the other hand have no idea what they're doing most of the time and I wouldn't expect them to understand at all. It's all kind of moot anyway though, most new cars are already using LED lighting, old cars gradually wear out or get wrecked. |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: nctnico on April 02, 2023, 04:51:36 pm --- --- 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. --- End quote --- I phased out incandescent for general illumination more than 20 years ago. More recently I have brought a few of them back though as I've collected a few antique floor lamps that use the 100-200-300 mogul base 3-way bulb, something that there is currently no truly equivalent LED retrofit for. They get used relatively little so the cost is negligible and in the winter when I'm most likely to run the big bulb in the reflector floor lamps the supplemental heat is a useful effect. In certain decorative applications nothing quite matches the look of a real incandescent either. |
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