11   General / Off-Topic / Re: So... uhh... What'd You Eat Today?  on: March 23, 2026, 03:15:59 PM 
Started by suzukir122 - Last post by suzukir122
Next time when I'm kicking it with friends at a bonfire, I'm going to try toasted marshmallows alone without the chocolate and graham crackers.
I have a feeling that might be very good.
But yep, fire burned smores is absolutely insanely delicious to me. Heck, fire burned foods in general seem to be incredible... even the fire burned
hotdogs were an easy 9 out of 10.
 12   General / Off-Topic / Re: So... uhh... What'd You Eat Today?  on: March 23, 2026, 12:48:24 PM 
Started by suzukir122 - Last post by Eleco_SR304
Marshmallows don't have a good taste in me. Though yes I agree, they taste good when you burn them a bit in the firecamp 😀
 13   General / Off-Topic / Re: So... uhh... What'd You Eat Today?  on: March 23, 2026, 09:21:58 AM 
Started by suzukir122 - Last post by suzukir122
Marshmallows have their moments with me. I can eat them alone but I prefer to eat them with smores, near a camp fire. I've done that a couple times with friends, and it's actually one of those times I began to shed tears... easy 9 out of 10. There's a chance that could happen again soon sometime this year.
This morning I snacked out... I'm on budget, so I can't buy doordash foods for a while. Just tried "Shrimp Chips" for the first time ever, from Walmart. These are chips, made of shrimp. I rate it only 7 out of 10... but... they're really, really addicting. I could not stop eating them. 
 14   General / Off-Topic / Re: Severe weather never sleeps!  on: March 23, 2026, 09:15:05 AM 
Started by lightinglover8902 - Last post by suzukir122
@wide-lite 1000, did it hit? Over here the storms were looking ugly on radar at first, but as soon as they entered my area, they literally
fell apart. I only heard two rumbles of thunder while I was at work last night. Lightning, of course, went away as well, as the storms fell apart.
Definitely chilly out there now though compared to yesterday. Yesterday we hit 84 degrees over here.
 15   Lanterns/Fixtures / Videos / Re: GE Mission Bell bee removal  on: March 23, 2026, 06:57:54 AM 
Started by GE PM - Last post by Baked bagel 11
Very interesting vid, thanks for sharing.
 16   Lamps / Modern / Re: What is the worst LED bulb you’ve seen?  on: March 22, 2026, 11:13:06 PM 
Started by Lightingeye60 - Last post by Lightingeye60
I bought two 4-packs of GE Reveal HD 2850K 5W and one 4-pack of the 8W to relamp the hallway lights.  ALL of them had failed after 8 months, and some started failing after only 2 months. None of the fixtures are enclosed or recessed either, so there's no excuse for this.
I will never buy GE bulbs again.  In fact I will never buy any premium price LED bulbs again, I just buy the cheapest bulbs I can find.  I am not wasting money on that again. Absolutely enfuriating.
I’ve never had that bad luck with GE LEDs, especially the snow cone versions, the ones I had worst luck with were Great Value and EcoSmart (store brands). Never tried Sylvania. Mid range Philips seems okay (as long as it’s not the LED filament warm glow variant), though snow cone warm glows don’t seem too bad. Premium price LEDs are often better quality but are more expensive.

I just visited a house, and I’m not sure of brand but it was a bathroom light with two LEDs on the ends and an incandescent in the middle, not enclosed, all in individual glass shades, the one of the LEDs was flickering while the incandescent was going strong. They were standard snow cone LEDs I think. Absolutely infuriating! I’m guessing the next bulb to fail is the other LED.
 17   Lamps / Modern / The quality of the latest LEDs grinds my gears!  on: March 22, 2026, 11:06:54 PM 
Started by Lightingeye60 - Last post by Lightingeye60
I visited a house, and there was a light fixture, the LED bulb was strobing, one LED was working, and the middle bulb was incandescent and working. This is ridiculous!

I’ve seen so many newer LEDs fail, while older ones keep getting. I’ve seen LEDs fail, but fail before an incandescent??? Never. That just grinds my gears. Seeing an LED die before an incandescent bulb is ridiculous, and the incandescent in the fixture is GE 60W A19 so it was made before 2014, and it was made in China. The lighting wasn’t matched as the incandescent was 2800K but the LEDs were 5000K. And another thing I notice with LEDs, is that it’s common for all of them to fail at the same time in a short period if they were installed at similar times. Commonly, when one modern LEDs fail, the entire batch fails with it.

The fact that even incandescent bulbs rated at 1,000 hours are lasting longer than some LEDs in open fixtures is proof that LED quality has gone down.

The GE snow cone LEDs seem decent, and the reflectors. The bulvs were probably like cheap Walmart or Home Depot brand, but that doesn’t make it acceptable for an LED bulb to fail sooner than an incandescent.

The newest LEDs do have better phosphors, and the light quality on LED bulbs is definitely getting better as time goes on, but as the phosphors get better, the quality of the electronics seem to be getting worse. LEDs are also be advertised with shorter lifespans than before, like 10 years ago, 25,000 hours was standard, but it’s 10,000 to 15000 hours. Some of the latest and cheapest LEDs are rated for like 3,000 to 5,000 hours which is about the lifespan of a long life incandescent, but I don’t think that was it, I think those LEDs in the light were like 10,000 hour rated or something.
 18   General / Off-Topic / Re: Severe weather never sleeps!  on: March 22, 2026, 09:19:18 PM 
Started by lightinglover8902 - Last post by wide-lite 1000
 Ugly stuff is coming my way ! :o 
 19   Lanterns/Fixtures / Videos / Re: GE Mission Bell bee removal  on: March 22, 2026, 09:06:14 PM 
Started by GE PM - Last post by wide-lite 1000
 Looks like it was originally a M-400 based version .
 20   Lamps / Modern / Re: What is the worst LED bulb you’ve seen?  on: March 22, 2026, 08:37:59 PM 
Started by Lightingeye60 - Last post by wide-lite 1000
 The worst I've bought was a Feit RGB bulb . IT SUCKS !!!!  It has NO memory circuit in it so you have to set the color/Light pattern everytime you turn it on using a tiny button on the side of the neck . Accidentally dropping this P.O.S. was the best thing that ever happened to it !!
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