The Biden Administration’s rules seek to make lighting cheaper and less polluting

  • Check the enclosures. LED lights have controller boards that have to be cooled, lest they burn up. Some enclosures are just not compatible with LED bulbs or you may need a different style. You might consider halogen. They’re still incandescent but far more energy efficient and, unlike CFLs, they don’t require s hazmat suit to clean up when they break.

    That said, CFLs are pretty awesome little feats of engineering too.

    Check out the Technology Connections YouTube page. Dude has a few videos on lighting you might benefit from having watched.

    •  CoderKat   ( @CoderKat@lemm.ee ) 
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      Lol when I was reading the first bit of your comment, I wondered “hmm, does this person also watch Technology Connections”?

      He’s also where I get all my knowledge of light bulbs from. He makes it all so fascinating.

    • They managed to go faulty in a free standing lamp without a shade, just completely open, so I don’t think heat is an issue; something in the wiring must be messing with them.

      I have used some halogens, but I haven’t found many I like the light of. Might try some others to see how they look.