With the LED bulbs, does anyone ever change a lightbulb anymore?

[rurallib]

Just thinking it has probably been a good five years since the last time I changed a bulb. That was to put the LEDs in.

A specific group of jokes may become obsolete if no one is changing bulbs any more.

[procon]

1. Remember how quaint it was to see Republicans

up in arms (as usual) over big government taking away their freedumds and God given right to use incandescent light bulbs forevermore.

Every one of those numbskulls (speaking fondly of my family) have switched to LED bulbs. They all have selective amnesia and not a single one of them remembers how they fell for the lies and disinformation they were being sperm fed by all their rightwing sources.

[Turbineguy]

2. I lost my freedom

when I changed over to LED's.

[keithbvadu2]

3. I tried some Dollar Tree LED bulbs. They did not last long.

I tried some Dollar Tree LED bulbs.

They did not last long.

[rurallib]

4. I guess I am not surprised

[mitch96]

5. Some bulbs run 50,000 hrs. If you run 'em 16 hrs a day, 7 days a week that's about

8.5 years.. not too shabby... check my math though..
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[rurallib]

7. By the time I have to replace I won't remember where they are or

how to do it. Lefty loosey, righty tighty - is that it?

[mitch96]

8. Yup, you got it.. I had a little kid teach me that.. talk about a humbling experience.. and

when I heard it I laughed out loud.. too precious..
What I like about LED's is I have a very high peaked ceiling. Two high hat bulbs will not have to be changed often.
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[RockRaven]

6. We also went all LED about 5 years ago, and we've had to replace two, out of about 100

since that time.

But neither of them were screw-in bulbs/sockets. They were both recessed/can lights where the light source has a little cord which plugs into a little cord up inside the can.

If I tried to tell a joke about those fixtures I would have to spend more time describing installing the damn thing than I would setting up the punchline.

[Chainfire]

9. When I worked at a University

One of my projects was changing 7 multi story buildings over from florescent to LEDs. A year after I finished, they tore five of the buildings down.....Oh Well.

[rurallib]

14. did they save the bulbs?

[Chainfire]

17. I don't know

I am not certain as I retired right before they began the demolition. I seriously doubt that they salvaged anything. It is generally not considered cost effective to pay for labor to remove, pack and store used bulbs while contractors are standing by with wrecking balls.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

10. Back in the bad old days, I felt as if my career was changing light bulbs.

I've lived in my current place for eleven years now, and I've had to change only some of the bulbs in this place in that time, not all of them.

[LuckyCharms]

11. I'm 95% LED for the past 5 years.

I have no lamps in my house. Every room has recessed LED dimmable ceiling fixtures. Bathrooms have light bars with removable LED bulbs. Basement has T8 florescents.

Have not changed a bulb in 5 years.

[hunter]

12. I just replaced a compact fluorescent bulb with an LED yesterday.

This compact fluorescent bulb was at least 15 years old, maybe more.

I expect the new LED bulb will last as long.

I remember many cheap compact fluorescents were utter garbage. The color was awful and the electronics unreliable. If I'm wearing my tin foil hat it seems these crappy bulbs were deliberately distributed to states owned by the coal industry, which fired up the stupid Republican light bulb debate.

California wrote standards for any compact fluorescent and LED bulbs the state and power utilities would subsidize and most of those bulbs were very reliable. The crappy bulbs were mostly pushed out of the market because the subsidized bulbs cost less. You could buy a crappy bulb at Wal-Mart for nine dollars, or an excellent subsidized bulb at Lowe's for a dollar or two.

The newer glass LED filament bulbs, both the frosted kinds and the decorative kind, are more efficient than older compact fluorescent and LED bulbs, look almost the same as old incandescent bulbs, and it's possible they will last even longer if high quality materials and electronics are used.



Once again the crappiest LED filament bulbs will probably go to states where the coal industry owns the politicians and all those people will start complaining about light bulbs again.

The precursors of these filament type LEDs were developed in Japan, but it seems China took the ball and ran with it. The technology is a cross-over from LED television sets.

[Wicked Blue]

13. How many MAGAts does it take to change an LED bulb?

None. They just shoot the bulbs out and lurk in the dark, trading QAnon theories.

[Kaleva]

15. It's been a loooong time since I had to change a flat tire.

[Kaleva]

16. In the home I grew up, we had few lights thus few bulbs to change.

There were two lights in the basement, one in the attic, one in the bathroom and one in each of the bedrooms. All were ceiling lights operated by pull chain. The living room and kitchen had one ceiling light controlled by a wall switch.

[Codeine]

18. Depends on your wiring.

Some houses seem to eat them up more quickly than others.

[JanMichael]

19. CFL's lasted a whole lot longer for us. 5, 6, 7, or more years.

Porch lights, lamp lights, all lasted for a half decade. LED's seem to have the lifespan of incandescents. Which is a lot less than CFL's...Our wiring is updated so it isn't that. And most LED's came from our electric monopoly.

[rurallib]

20. That is really surprising

As witnessed here most folks find LEDs very long lasting.

[JanMichael]

21. Maybe it is Duke Energy and the Ghost of Carl Horn doing it? nt

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

22. I just realized that i have a full spectrum LED bulb in my desk lamp.

Recommended by my doctor. It's been in there for over 10 years and it shows no sign of fading.

I'm rather impressed by these LED light bulbs.