{"id":1089,"date":"2014-06-21T11:46:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T18:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2014-06-21T11:46:04","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T18:46:04","slug":"light-bulb-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/21\/light-bulb-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Light Bulb Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight years ago I <a href=\"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/29\/light-bulbs\/\" title=\"Light Bulb Blog\">published <\/a>some data I had taken on the life of light bulbs.  I recorded the lifetimes of bulbs in my kitchen ceiling.  Everyone was so excited and thought it was the most interesting blog I had ever posted &#8212; NOT!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, despite the lack of enthusiasm, here&#8217;s a brief update.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2006 I had concluded that fluorescent (CFL) bulbs really did last a lot longer than incandescent bulbs.  I have to now include LED bulbs in that statement too; promising, but too little data to draw any conclusions except that they are definitely better than incandescents and look better than fluorescents.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the olden days, I had to replace each incandescent bulb about once a year, so with 7 bulbs there were on average 7 replacements per year.  Now, it has been 2 1\/2 years since I replaced any bulbs vs. an expected 17 (~2.5 x 7), so I have saved the cost of about 17 light bulbs (plus savings on the cost of electricity, of course).<\/p>\n<p>In each of 2010, 2011, and 2012 I had to replace a single fluorescent bulb.  I have never had to replace any LED bulbs, though I only have 3 in that ceiling.<\/p>\n<p>So there you have it.  Based on my data, CFLs really do last longer than incandescents, and LEDs are very promising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight years ago I published some data I had taken on the life of light bulbs. I recorded the lifetimes of bulbs in my kitchen ceiling. Everyone was so excited and thought it was the most interesting blog I had ever posted &#8212; NOT! Anyway, despite the lack of enthusiasm, here&#8217;s a brief update. Back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1094,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions\/1094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}