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Re:Closing the "green gap": energy savings from the math of ... by devwastaken on Monday February 24, 2025 @06:01PM (#43165973)
LED lighting is both better and worse.

- purposefully made with line frequency (60hz) refresh which means its actually constantly blinking. you can see this with led Christmas lights by moving them.

- pack liquid capacitors designed to fail well before the rest of the board.

- thermals are too hot and fry the diodes or the rectifier IC’s.

- wrong colors sold everywhere. a proper 4000K 90+ CRI led is hard to find and more expensive. the two most often available are 2700K (yellow) and 5000K (blue)

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Re:Closing the "green gap": energy savings from the math of ... by adgjlsfhk1 on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @12:55AM (#43168652)
Why do you want 4000K? Incandescent/halogen are 2700k/3000k, and sunlight is 5000k. 4000k is flourescent, and I don't think anyone wants lighting to look like that. That said, if that's what you want Lowes has it (technically 3500k at CRI 90) https://www.lowes.com/pd/GE-Pro-60-Watt-EQ-A19-Bright-White-...

Also, only the absolute cheapest LEDs have noticeable flicker. Decent ones have big enough capacitors to make it un-noticable.

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Re:Closing the "green gap": energy savings from the math of ... by HankB99 on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @09:58PM (#43180115)
Wasn't planned obsolescence invented with the incandescent bulb?

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

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