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Re:EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides by apcragg on Saturday April 28, 2018 @12:01AM (#16946000)
I'm similarly skeptical that replacing 70 watt bulbs with 15 watt bulbs with poor power factors would end up being a wash. IR loses from the increase in reactive current would not cover the 55 watt gap.
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Re:EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on Saturday April 28, 2018 @01:38AM (#16946227)
There isn't even any reactive current, it's just a non-sinusoidal load current because there is a rectifier and capacitors for smoothing the rectified voltage at the input.
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Re:EU agrees on total ban of bee-harming pesticides by petre on Saturday April 28, 2018 @12:21AM (#16946051)
We moved from halogen directly to LED bulbs. Never liked CFLs mainly because of the mercury. I guess it's up to you to decide and educate others.
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