[SML] failing bulbs (was Recall....)

[Dan Sheehan]

Yup, the time has come.
Price is coming down.
I always said CFL's were just temporary.

That Norman Rockwell ad was OK,
 but I really like the Maxfield Parrish work for GE Mazda Lamps

eg
http://maxfieldparrish.info/parrishchronologically/maxfieldparrishworks1920to1929/ecstasy

On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 12:16 PM, Charlie Richmond via Stagecraft <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

> Stopping production of CFLs at this point (I shouldn't have used the term
> 'exclusively'):
> http://www.gereports.com/say-goodbye-say-hello-ge-stops-making-cfls-says-go-go-go-to-leds/
>
> On 4 March 2016 at 09:13, Riter, Andrew <andrew.riter at ubc.ca> wrote:
>
>> Does that mean they are stopping production of everything else, or just
>> stopping R&D on new incandescents?
>>
>>
>>
>> Andrew M. Riter
>>
>> Assistant Technical Director / Head Lighting Technician
>>
>>
>>
>> 604-822-2372
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>> Andrew.riter at ubc.ca
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>>
>>
>> *From:* Charlie Richmond [mailto:charlie.rsd at gmail.com]
>> *Sent:* Friday, March 04, 2016 9:02 AM
>> *To:* Stagecraft Mailing List
>> *Cc:* Riter, Andrew
>> *Subject:* Re: [SML] failing bulbs (was Recall....)
>>
>>
>>
>> The quality of incandescent (all types) bulbs will continue to decrease
>> as the world moves away from them.  GE recently announced they are going to
>> focus exclusively on LEDs.
>>
>>
>>
>> Charlie
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>>
>>
>> On 4 March 2016 at 08:45, Riter, Andrew via Stagecraft <
>> stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
>>
>> Just had an interesting incident:
>>
>>
>>
>> Campus utility workers were changing bulbs in my building.  A T-10 60w
>> bulb, vertical in a socket, had the glass envelope separate from the
>> screw-in base.  They pulled the base out from the reflector from above, and
>> found no glass envelope.  About 1 second later, they located the envelope
>> by the sound of the smash 60 below.
>>
>>
>>
>> Andrew M. Riter
>>
>> Assistant Technical Director / Head Lighting Technician
>>
>>
>>
>> 604-822-2372
>>
>> Andrew.riter at ubc.ca
>>
>>
>>
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Fixer of things that break
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