RIP: light bulbs in HAB towers

[AlfredJPruffock]

Give 'em back. There still isn't any sunspots.


We'll all gonna be in trouble if it continues like this.

To clarify matters - it was not my intention to remove the Sunpots - as I mentioned all I did was to extract some energy from the Suns core for the Tardis - unfortunately the upshot is that the Suns reactor seems to be slowly shutting down - hence the Sunspots disspearing - try as I might I cannot seem to reboot the damn thing, and Ive got quite a lot on this weekend so I expect to have made some progress by Monday evening when I have some free time.

Have a great weekend !



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[EternalOptimist]

when my last proper bulb broke, I got the missus and all the kids to hold it with me. It now works again.
we found that many hands make light work

[BrilloPad]

when my last proper bulb broke, I got the missus and all the kids to hold it with me. It now works again.
we found that many hands make light work

[RichardCranium]

when my last proper bulb broke, I got the missus and all the kids to hold it with me. It now works again.
we found that many hands make light work

I do hope you are thoroughly ashamed of yourself for that.

[EternalOptimist]

I do hope you are thoroughly ashamed of yourself for that.

have you ever had a brilliant joke that you waited years and years for the right opportunity to crack ?

me neither

[xoggoth]

Never mind HAB, you can have a good swear on your twitter.

Those half price garden solar garden lights form Homebase are good. I brought 500 of them and we stick them all out on the patio during the day. In the evening we bring them in. Free lighting.

Incidentally, scientists have discovered that swearing really does turn the air blue. In a study, a bunch of students were told to sit and shout C*, W*, A* over and over and there was a perceptible upshift in the wavelength.

[MPwannadecentincome]

Try looking at LED bulbs - expensive but come in all sorts of daylight, softlight, coloured, still not as bright as a real 100W though. I haven't tried any though.

I've been using the Philips Turbo 100W equivalents, they turn on quick and give quite a bright light, I have them in the kitchen.

[TinTrump]

Slight tangent; although I've mostly moved over to energy efficient ones they weren't compatible with dimmer switches so retained a stock of old style bulbs too. I did hear that maybe that problem had been resolved. ACan anyone confirm that?

[OwlHoot]

Slight tangent; although I've mostly moved over to energy efficient ones they weren't compatible with dimmer switches ...

Yes it's a real pain. I have ten low-energy miniature flourescent bulbs in the chandelier in my sitting room. Looks ridiculous, but the idea was to save ellecy.

The trouble is this works off a dimmer switch, although the poxy bulbs don't and they regularly go pop. Far from being long-life, they last about as long as a may fly.

I wonder if LED bulbs work in dimmer switches.

[Alf W]

I've found these great light bulbs in B&Q. They are marginally cheaper but they do use 5x the electricity that normal ones do and, when they are on, they run red-hot. The other downside is you have to replace them about four times as often.

How many do people want?