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How many incandescent lamps do you use day-to-day? « on: December 21, 2023, 07:16:36 PM » Author: Lcubed3
When my dad built our addition in 2006-2011, he put only incandescent lamps in because they were cheaper to buy at the time. 10 years later, most of the fixtures (65 in total) still burn incandescent/tungsten lamps daily.
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Re: How many incandescent lamps do you use day-to-day? « Reply #1 on: December 21, 2023, 07:57:35 PM » Author: wide-lite 1000
 Virtually none . With the cost of electric , I can't afford to run incandescent . Besides , when I was still using them , I quickly tired of having to frequently replace the D2D ones !  I was getting about 2-3 months life from the 2-60w bulbs in my old porch lights ! I now get 2-3 years or more with the LEDs .

 I do have a 100w incan. and a 250w heatlight which I use during the winter to keep parts of my water system from freezing .
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Re: How many incandescent lamps do you use day-to-day? « Reply #2 on: December 21, 2023, 10:24:13 PM » Author: HIDLad001
It's the same for me. I use LED for most general service applications, and for economical non-LED lighting, I use PL and linear fluorescent extensively.
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Re: How many incandescent lamps do you use day-to-day? « Reply #3 on: December 21, 2023, 11:41:14 PM » Author: LightsoftheWest
None. I've got LED in nearly all the lights in the house apart from the light above the kitchen bar that still has four 50W MR16 halogen lamps on the tracks and a G9 capsule in the enclosed center light. Those seldom see use.
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Re: How many incandescent lamps do you use day-to-day? « Reply #4 on: December 22, 2023, 12:02:33 AM » Author: Maxim
Sounds unfortunate, but about 90%. Though, as the Sylvania LED A19 snowcones burn out I swap them with either glass filament LEDs or NOS incandescents.

Though, anything D2D'ing is LED (plus one halogen, that thing has been in service for YEARS now). Though, my main room is currently lit by F20T12 linear fluorescent and 160W SBMV, if that helps my case...  8;)
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Re: How many incandescent lamps do you use day-to-day? « Reply #5 on: December 22, 2023, 01:37:23 AM » Author: HIDLad001
I also forgot to mention that I use ceramic metal halide as well.
Short warm up times, good light output, exceptional CRI and nice bright colors are all good things about them. The warm up time and ballast losses are even lower if used on an electronic ballast.
Currently have a pair of protected and coated Philips 930 Mastercolor lamps, and they do an awesome job for both direct and indirect lighting.
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Re: How many incandescent lamps do you use day-to-day? « Reply #6 on: December 22, 2023, 09:54:25 AM » Author: Roi_hartmann
I have one in front door and another in sauna and.... that's about it. Rest is either LED or fluorescent.
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Re: How many incandescent lamps do you use day-to-day? « Reply #7 on: December 22, 2023, 11:53:12 AM » Author: RRK
No incandescents left for general lighting, LEDs and metal halides in use, color MH and color CFL for fun. But I often use incandescent lamps as a dummy load for power electronics.
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Re: How many incandescent lamps do you use day-to-day? « Reply #8 on: December 22, 2023, 01:52:09 PM » Author: Medved
At my home where I live since 2001 I never used any incandescents, before that at my parent home incandescents were since 90's only in the restroom. Because incandescents were violently exploding and flying glass shards around on us at the EOL all the time I remember, did not want to have that at home.
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Re: How many incandescent lamps do you use day-to-day? « Reply #9 on: December 22, 2023, 03:31:24 PM » Author: icefoglights
My house is primarily lit with either LED or linear fluorescent lights.  I have one mogul lamp in daily use that is still incandescent.  Also, the ceiling lights in both the upstairs and downstairs hallways are incandescent, but those don't get used too often.  Finally, the lights up in the attic, and one pull chain light in the crawlspace are incandescent, but those rarely get used.

On a side note, I have one single pull chain fixture under the stairs that still has a CFL in it.
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Re: How many incandescent lamps do you use day-to-day? « Reply #10 on: December 22, 2023, 07:14:12 PM » Author: Rommie
Ok, in the Rommie/Mandolin Girl household, it's as follows:

Bedroom - 1 x 40W in a ceiling pendant, 1 x 60W in a clip-on lamp over the floor-standing mirror and 2 x 6W T5 fluorescents as reading lamps over the bed.
Hall - 1 42W halogen
Hall Cupboard 1 - 40W incandescent
Hall Cupboard 2 - 16W 2D fluorescent
Bathroom - 28W 2D fluorescent
Kitchen - 28W 2D fluorescent
Living Room - 1 x 10W 2D in a pendant with adaptor, 1 x 40W incandescent, 1 x 25W incandescent in a floor lamp, 1 x 15W incandescent in the other floor lamp, but those are only used as 'mood' lighting, not for general illumination, we use Gemma, our 35W Beta 5 SOX fitting for that  :mrg:

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Re: How many incandescent lamps do you use day-to-day? « Reply #11 on: December 22, 2023, 07:21:55 PM » Author: Molly
My mom bought so many of them over the years now we have boxes of them in one of our storage closets. They're not used but still work. For our house, we use mostly LED ane some CFLs. I use an incandescent heat bulb for my lizard though.
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Re: How many incandescent lamps do you use day-to-day? « Reply #12 on: December 23, 2023, 05:43:19 PM » Author: Laurens
Two.

There's one in a closet and one in the attic. They run minutes per day at most, so their electricity consumption is negligible. I have plenty of old, half-used e14 bulbs to put into those fixtures if they ever break.
My christmas lights are incandescent too, and will be until we get colored plastic sleeves to put over warm white LEDs. And of course the dim bulb tester for old electronics.

The rest of the house is almost exclusively LED since they got indistinguishable from incandescent (except when looking through a spectroscope). There's a CFL in the bathroom that just won't die despite quite a few on-off cycles a day, but that's a name brand Philips or Osram one, with good color rendering too.

My bed room/workshop (combined... long story) was the last room to be lit by a 60w bulb that i screwed in there, when the CFL i had previously died and just grabbed something from the box of bulbs. 100w would've been nicer light wise, but would rack up quite the cost and be scorching hot on the already hot summer nights. Switched it out for a 9w 800lm LED bulb and finally i had the bright light i always longed for.
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Re: How many incandescent lamps do you use day-to-day? « Reply #13 on: December 23, 2023, 07:35:00 PM » Author: Lcubed3
I should mention that the other two sections of our house are LED  :mrg:
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Re: How many incandescent lamps do you use day-to-day? « Reply #14 on: December 25, 2023, 01:11:36 PM » Author: Richmond2000
have one incandescent in service and it is in a wall sconce in the stairwell to the boiler room and not really accessible easily
rest is almost all PL-S 13 CFL and 2 induction lamps in the lounge rooms
one LED fixture in a bedroom and a LED globe in the front door light that has run non stop since 2018 +/- old home no switch 
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