LCD/LEDs over incandescent mandate is a good example of a foisted solution without fully understanding the impacts and questionable numbers.
LEDs make great sense in long hour operating environments, i.e Stores/ warehouses that run the lights 12-24 hours/day. Less so in residential housing where the cycling of lights increases failure rates and the extremely long (hypothesized life) of the bulb isn’t beneficial.
[quote]Surprisingly to many, the true reliability and lifetime of light-emitting diode (LED) lighting systems
is generally not known. Even worse, lumen maintenance values of LED devices are widely used as a
proxy for the lifetime of an LED lighting system, which is misleading since lumen maintenance is
but one component of a luminaire’s reliability. In fact, quite often the lifetime of a well-designed and
manufactured luminaire is not determined by LED lumen depreciation. For many manufacturers
estimating the luminaire lifetime using LED lumen maintenance, results can be ascribed to
dependence on readily available numbers without developing actual luminaire data. In many cases,
neither product providers nor customers are aware of the differences, perhaps in part because the
problem has not been sufficiently explored and communicated.[/quote]
[quote=FlyerInHi]Let me give you an example of kookoo extremism from people who don’t want to even consider anything reasonable.
Anyone who uses airconditioning knows that efficiency is key to lower bill. There’s a huge difference between SEER-10 and SEER-13 or even higher (up to SEER-23 now)
As Clinton left office he mandated SEER-13. Bush rolled it back and the issue went to court. So we didn’t get SEER-13 until 2006 manufacture date. So most of the houses built doing the boom years still had the old stuff, manufactured before.
Lots of wasted energy and higher power bills for millions of consumers, simply because of obstruction.
BTW, I happen to know this because I researched when I bought property.
If you run AC a lot and have high power bills, you know who to blame. AN, you have solar because you like AC. Well, do some research and see what your energy usage would be if you had SEER-18.
Anyone remember the polemic over the incandescent light bulbs. Isn’t it so quaint and anachronistic now that LED is everywhere?
