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

[Ford Sellers]

Wasn’t it just a couple of months ago that everyone was all excited about MITs experiment with making incandescents more efficient than LEDs…

I think we might want to wait a little while before declaring any technology dead…

-Ford

From: Stagecraft [mailto:stagecraft-bounces at theatrical.net] On Behalf Of Dan Sheehan via Stagecraft
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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<mailto: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<mailto: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

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From: Charlie Richmond [mailto:charlie.rsd at gmail.com<mailto:charlie.rsd at gmail.com>]
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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

On 4 March 2016 at 08:45, Riter, Andrew via Stagecraft <stagecraft at theatrical.net<mailto: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<tel:604-822-2372>
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