America’s ban on incandescent light bulbs, 16 years in the making, is finally a reality. Well, mostly.

Incandescent light bulbs are officially banned in the U.S.::America’s ban on incandescent light bulbs, 16 years in the making, is finally a reality. Well, mostly.

  • cheery_coffee@lemmy.caEnglish
    1616·
    1 year ago

    Now instead of throwing out a little glass and wire, I get to throw out entire light fixtures with non-replacable LEDs soldered onto cheap PCBs that fail in about the same time as an incandescent light bulb!

    I’m all for the energy efficiency of LEDs, but the cheap light fixtures replacing bulbs are a bad trend that needs to die, but they’re easier to wire and last longer on paper, so they’re getting installed everywhere by default.

    • dmention7@lemm.eeEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      So don’t buy non-replaceable fixtures?

      How is removing incandescent bulbs from the marketplace going to increase the installation of fixtures with non-replaceable components, when such fixtures never used incandescent bulbs in the first place?

      • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        It can be difficult. I started asking around about getting recessed lighting installed in my kitchen and they all wanted to install disk lights.

        These seem even worse since not only do you have to replace the fixture when it burns out, but you risk having to replace all the fixtures when it varies by color temperature or trim

        • stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pubEnglish
          21·
          1 year ago

          They should charge you less for using cheaper material, reduce labor costs etc and charge the regular rate (like they fucking die before) to install a recessed fixture.

          Overall, capitalism and rampant, irresponsible consumerism is to blame for all these quick fix solutions and lack of repairable devices. There is not one person to blame but ourselves for continuing to buy into this bs (literally)

    • lazyslacker@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      For what it’s worth I’ve had one of those integrated overhead fixtures in my kitchen for about 6 years. It hasn’t failed yet. The overall shape of the fixture which we like also wouldn’t be possible if the bulbs were replaceable.

      • xthexder@l.sw0.comEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        The light fixture in my apartment started flickering and not turning on all the way, and it was only a few years old (On a dimmer switch, the dimmer-compatible driver in the fixture died). I couldn’t even fix it myself because it’s hardwired and my landlord wouldn’t be happy with me playing electrician. So I was stuck with no light in that room for weeks until the landlord got it replaced.

        Not to mention I couldn’t change the color temperature to match the rest of my lights, which drove me nuts.

      • biddy@feddit.nlEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        OK, and? LEDs typically last way longer than 6 years, but it’s still going to be a pain to replace when it does fail.

      • cheery_coffee@lemmy.caEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        They’re not all bad, there are many bad ones though and the light bulb form factor is better for repairability (but there are bad LED bulbs too).

        • lazyslacker@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          Well actually I’ve got one in my laundry room too and that one hasn’t failed either so it’s really a sample size of two. But either way if you don’t like it that’s why I said for what it’s worth.