It's been a couple weeks of life with a mix of CFL and LED in the office, and battery-powered motion-sensing LED in a stairway. I no longer foresee replacing the remaining CFLs in the office with LED. The LEDs are okkay for filling in the gaps, but they just aren't that that bright, even allowing for the lower equivalent wattage. And they are ( Read more... )

I went looking for a small 40W incandescent appliance bulb for the fridge this morning and while the local hardware store did not have such a thing (the dollar store did, though) I saw something else of interest: A supposedly 40W equivalent LED "bulb" that uses only 1.5 Watts. And while the price was not as low as incandescent, or even CFL, it was ( Read more... )

Stopped by the local Radio Shack last night to get some LEDs so eventually I could shine rather monochrome light around the house and see what happens. They only had, in anything reasonably bright, red and blue. I already have blue. And red, being the longest wavelength and lowest energy of the visible spectrum isn't likely to reveal all that much ( Read more... )

A while back Fairmont's public utilities celebrated their centennial anniversary. I took a tour of the local power plant and visited the city office where they had some programs and freebies. One of the freebies was a neat little bright blue LED key-chain flashlight. This is a very handy little thing and so I've taken to using it for various ( Read more... )