• Vinny_93@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Maybe it’s because it’s all LED in the EU now, we don’t really do the old tungsten lining or halogen anymore.

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      8 months ago

      When you buy a lightbulb (at least here in the UK) it almost always still has the incandescent-equivalent on it as well as the actual wattage.

      People are still used to thinking in old terms that you want 100W for a ceiling lamp and 60W for a table lamp, for example.

      So this light in the fridge could be 200W equivalent but not actually 200W consumption.

      Thinking about it, lightbulb itself is at this point a ridiculously achronistic term, there’s nothing really ‘bulb’ about them anymore.

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          You’re right to be fair, a lot of them do retain that shape for purely aesthetic reasons, but it’s not a functional part of the light source any longer.

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              8 months ago

              And sometimes acts as a diffuser for the light too, yeah. Just isn’t required for illumination purposes directly.

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          I mean, they are just small diodes inside, if they have a bulb shape it’s just some plastic to have it be a familiar shape. I’d even argue most new light fixtures these days come in all sorts of shapes, and in my home, for example, I don’t even have a bulb shape.

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      8 months ago

      Not quite all : I don’t think LED’s can withstand the heat of an oven. Though I don’t see the need for a 200W bulb in an oven. Maybe as the heating element in a toy easy-bake oven?

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      8 months ago

      That’s because my parents bought out all the incandescent bulbs. Something about not making them them like they used to. There are none left.