Guess there will be a run on light bulbs again.


Energy Department moves forward with light bulb ban

In freezing weather I will use drop lights with incandescent bulbs as heaters around pool equipment that I cover with tarps. No longer being able to get incandescent bulbs is going to cost my customers a lot of money over time.

Brought to you by the clueless idiots in charge of your senses.

I thought they already did this?

Can they use heat trace? More expensive of course.

We did but Trump put stop a to the ban in 2019.

they know what is best for us.

I think we should ban politicians.

For our well pump, I went to Home Depot and bought a couple of IR heating lamps that screw into a light bulb socket. They have a built-in thermal control that causes them to come on when the temp gets to around 35°F, and they go off at around 40°F. They've been working well for several years now, and I don't have to make a trip out to turn them on or off when cold weather comes and goes.

As long as there is interweb, you will be able to buy about anything you need.

Soon you'll only be able to get incandescent bulbs from an unmarked white van in the parking lot of a Kroger...

Any link to the ones you use? We need something for the wellhouse over winter up here, been using a halogen light bulb.

Because of how many pipes there are heat trace becomes a nightmare. When I do a tent of tarps over the equipment and put a couple of hundred watt bulbs in drop lights it keeps the inside of the tent quite warm, I've even found Wildlife taking Refuge there. Finding the bulbs has already been tough, I've had to buy the rough service coated bulbs for the past few years.

Not to mention pool lights are going to get incredibly expensive. The small ones use a 100 watt bulb that when they banned those they had to go with a 60 watt halogen and the large light fixtures use a 500 w incandescent bulb. No one knows it but LED lights give off gas that is explosive and you cannot use them in a sealed fixture unless it is a very expensive specially designed bulb. There are LED specific light fixtures on the market that do not have serviceable bulbs but they are two and a quarter times the cost of regular fixtures and there are tens of thousands of those regular fixtures in use right now. I have bulb replacements for six scheduled just for today.

That's interesting. Do you have any links so we can read more on that?

I already run LED bulbs almost everywhere but they wreak havoc on garage door openers. Either greatly reduce or kill the range on the remote. Not sure why.

But I don't at all like being told what I can or cannot buy.

I agree, i use LED lightbulbs in almost all my outlets, but i am totally against the govt telling us what we can and can not use.

Another step in the direction of socialism. We are honestly mostly there already. Very few free market things these days

LED bulbs do not have any kind of gas inside them.

And the idiots that voted for them, which they did not win the election.
You have to be a special kind of stupid to vote for a democrat.

No- no gas emitted. It's because the electronics in a LED bulb (and the LED emitter itself) are sensitive to heat and will fry if they get too hot.
A sealed fixture acts like an oven (no ventilation) holding heat in and the temp increases till the electronics fry.

https://insights.regencylighting.com/was-there-actually-an-incandescent-light-bulb-ban

"The end of the incandescent bulb started when former President George W. Bush signed EISA (Energy Independence and Security Act) in 2007. "

I'm a conservative republican and think the idea is stupid. Trump had put a halt for awhile. Just let the market work. LEDs are much better but if you need an incandescent for something you should be able to buy.

More gov intrusion.

Yep and that’s why powerful ones have a heat sink. The gas explosion thing is BS though.

Same guys effed up a gas can...

No kidding. They couldn't screw in a light bulb so they banned them