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daveamkrayoguy

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A glowing internal hot-spot light source, in the form of an ovalesque-shaped beauty, with the writing rubbed-off, thereby giving her no-name, rated at roughly 60-watts, splattered with goo, from her previous ancient surroundings, after ably giving her assistance in lighting a lamp in a room, with one, or sometimes two other bulbs, after being used for a term as a single source, in her beginning life as a solo performer in a lamp she was found in, which I'd never used due to its ravaged and unusable condition, is now immortalized in the Hall of Fame of Past Successes in Light Bulb History:

On numerous occasions she has been flickering, then coming back to life, but as of Sunday, Feb. 10th, 2019, she at the time of 8:05 PM, which can also be in 24-hour, international or military time be 20:05, she has now officially been pronounced dead...

Her lifespan had been lengthened, along with that of her fellow rarities in the lightbulb world, via use of a dimmer cord-switch...

A plan to replace her and possibly give more details on her specifications to her legacy, as well as what Bulb to replace her with, will follow...

-- Dave

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Hey, she came back to life!

Yes, that's the same light bulb, which I'd thought had given up the ghost...

Well, I meant to make my post I'd deleted an admission that this had been a death hoax, as of 8:37 PM ( or 20:37) that day she lit up in her full glowing glory...

(Maybe I was waiting for more responses from you guys!)

Sorry, folks, she is going to stick around, and this happened before, but not in that 30-min. lapse!

-- Dave

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Yes, here's to her LONGEVITY!!!!

Hmmmmm, I got that lamp completely overhauled, a few years ago... She's even got a new cord...

Maybe I'll try a different bulb, then I'll see if that's really right...

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I've got a couple of "historic" bulbs I could not get myself to replace when I went LED.  A couple of bedrooms lamps have the vintage Westinghouse "T" bulbs that are still working well after decades of light (pun intended...) use.

 

I got a great deal on LEDs a few months back and replaced 98% of my lighting, I left a few as legacy lamps, they get very little use, so not a great current draw.

 
Yes, the T-shaped Westy bulbs!

It was 10-, or nearly 15-years-ago, I saw three of these lamps with them in ‘em! 60-watts, each!

There was an antique store I’d also gone to years later, still a few years ago, on the way to where I’d used to work at, that had a couple of these, with a lot of those T-shaped Westinghouse’s put in each socket, that unfortunately I couldn’t buy just the bulbs out of, I had to buy the actual lamps, more expensive and not anymore likely to last as long... (the lamps, that is; the bulbs—well?)

Update on that bulb: She stayed on steady, and had been on, all night, through all early-morning/now...

— Dave

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Yes, that was a novel feature about those bulbs! They all said "Eye Saver" on them & imagine keeping alive, every one you'd obtained!

I'd even seen Bug Light ones, which they were labeled, and I think there were some auctioned on eBay, a year, back...

Major correction needed: And that is that I saw three of those lamps at an antique mall, which at the time going for $20, each was too much and I was tempted to swipe up all three, but luckily got this at a thrift shop and the screened shade at a Salvation Army store, months later...

The other antique place had a couple floor lamps that probably had eight of these bulbs, combined, going for, I believe $150, or more, that I verbally expressed to the owner, just wanting just the bulbs from...

And, well, while she wouldn't go that way, I think I would surely have had the lights to put them in...

Last of all, my late-in-laws had those in some of their fixtures of their previous home, when my wife and I were dating, that they'd moved a year out of after we got married...

One was even in their garage, which I'd taken right out, climbing up a ladder, replacing with an ordinary round bulb, and another was in a recessed bathroom fixture, while I'm sure one or a few was in a lamp or were in lamps, but had all burned out over the years...

-- Dave
 
Thinking back...:

There was one place I'd worked at which had an old, unused lighted sign that was much like a Lite Brite--a screen with a light bulb backing it & racks across it you could lay letters & numbers on it... (Though I only remember seeing the housing & was sorry to let that get thrown away, but that was it was for & just about every store back then had one in the window, advertising Specials & On Sale) which had a huge probably 150w Incandescent (seemingly much larger wattage than I would imagine it to safely allow) which had a filament determined to light that sign with every turn & I had given it to test it...

 

I had a few other incandescents also try to light with whatever remaining connections their innards could do, from tiny Night Light Bulbs to stuff like that one, full-large base-sized, a good turn offered at least temporary life...

 

 

 

-- Dave 
 
Should have given it to me. I still use incandescent for table (reading) lamps. I also have a stash that would give anyone a coronary LOL. I

ncandescent bulbs are not dangerously hot unless you use them incorrectly. I use LED only in general duty lighting and exterior lighting where light quality does not matter. No reason to hate just because the powers that be say you should.

FWIW, you can still get rough service, fan, decorative and "Mexican" bulbs on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Satco-S8522-...t+bulbs+satco&qid=1556581786&s=gateway&sr=8-3

https://www.amazon.com/GE-41030-12-...way&sprefix=incandscent+bulbs,aps,259&sr=8-21
 
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Any pics of the system, inverters and charge controllers?

Been drawing up the plans for getting 4.8kv and 13.8kv increased to 34.5kv which will greatly cut loses by bypassing intermediate stations and eliminating mid-line regulators. In addition to allowing customer co-generation and solar just about anywhere.

Real environmental savings start as the source.
 

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