What I’ve noticed in new construction, is that they commonly have Satco light bulbs installed when it is built, rather than GE, Sylvania, or Philips, even though some use faux Westinghouse, and in some cases the actual big three. I just toured a new construction this week and all the bulbs in the house were SATCO LED’s. All of them, and even in the 2000s I often saw videos of people removing satco bulbs when burned out (satco isn’t even available at all stores, most big box stores don’t even carry satco), so those were likely majorly installed by builders. I also went to a house where I saw satco bulbs (and I’ve seen some arc), and the house was full of them, the bathroom lights had clear bulbs and the bare bulb light and flushmounts I believe had the frosted version. Also, when I watch Lex’s dirty maintenance show, and he changes a bulb, I notice that some look like satco lamps, especially IF A19’s and candelabra bulbs.
Has anyone else been noticing this? Why is satco of all companies likely the most common light bulb choice for builders. Satco never even made bulbs, they only distribute bulbs and another company makes them for Satco. Whatever company who makes satco bulbs makes a lot of bulbs for different companies as well, like Halco and some other ones. A lot of the other “60W 130V 2500 hour” incandescent bulbs for example were made by the same company who makes the satco ones, with the same “LR58060” on the base. It also seems like many new construction pre-2020 were built with incandescents from satco or whatever and they put in the 130V ones for some reason with the C-9 filament to avoid the ban.
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