America’s ban on incandescent light bulbs, 16 years in the making, is finally a reality. Well, mostly.

Incandescent light bulbs are officially banned in the U.S.::America’s ban on incandescent light bulbs, 16 years in the making, is finally a reality. Well, mostly.

  • heeplr@feddit.deEnglish
    161·
    11 months ago

    tHe lIgHt is sO mUcH bEtTeR!!!)

    narrator voice: “but it was not”

    • vithigar@lemmy.caEnglish
      12·
      11 months ago

      It can be. Cheap LED lights with low quality AC rectifiers are awful. If those are your point of comparison then yes, incandescent light is better (more steady).

      Of course that difference goes away if you just get a better LED light.

        • vithigar@lemmy.caEnglish
          11·
          11 months ago

          Even the “cheap” LED bulbs are still many times more expensive than incandescent, and incandescent will give much better light than poor quality LED.

          • Salad_Fries@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            The LED bulbs have a higher up front cost, but ive not come across a single instance where an incandescent was cheaper when factoring electricity costs.

      • heeplr@feddit.deEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        yeah, i was referring to current tech. First LED or those mercury vapor bulbs were basically useless.

        • vithigar@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          You can definitely get “current” LED bulbs with bad hardware inside still today. See: Everything made by NOMA.

          • heeplr@feddit.deEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            You could also get ultra cheap crappy incendescant bulbs in the past.

    • NewNewAccount@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      11 months ago

      It generally is though. The look of incandescent and halogen is only rivaled by high end LEDs.

      • heeplr@feddit.deEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        nah. in my experience, even cheaper LED bulbs from discounters can nicely replace old bulbs.

        It’s true that what “el-cheapo product” once was done by simply reducing lifetime is currently done with looks.