Re: [sudo-discuss] need another 8-foot light bulb in sudoroom

12:40 < Rab> jerkey_, I was greatly agitated by reading this: (link to this thread) 12:41 < Rab> Colleagues can't let colleages spend $45 on feeble Counterfeit Electric trash. This is the superior chocobo: https://www.ledmyplace.com/products/t8-8ft-v-shape-led-tube -60w-integrated-5000k-frosted 12:42 < Rab> It weighs three pounds, so you can just secure it to the existing fixture with zip ties if need be. 12:43 < Rab> I installed four of these at Jerry's last week. 13:03 <@amatus> the home depot one "can operate in existing fluorescent fixtures with ballasts" 13:03 <@amatus> if that's what's required... 13:05 < Rab> A flawed solution, for what would be an ill set of requirements. 13:06 <@amatus> just thought it should be mentioned 15:07 < jerkey_> rab send a damned email to the list On Fri, 13 Jul 2018, Patrik D'haeseleer wrote: Note that Home Depot does have 8ft LED replacement bulbs > <https://www.homedepot.com/p/Feit-Electric-8-ft-T8-T12-75W-E > quivalent-Cool-White-4100K-Linear-LED-Tube-Light-Bulb-T96- > 841-LED-RP/206036837>. > > They're $45 - still a bit too expensive, but they should pay for > themselves > within a year or two. > > We have one in CCL, I think above the fermentation station. We're planning > to buy more of those as the fluorescents wear out, at least until such > time > as we decide to swap out the light fixtures altogether... > > Patrik > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 10:01 AM, Jake &lt;jake(a)spaz.org&gt; wrote: > > Gerard went and grabbed two modern thin fluorescent tubes, and Matthew >> replaced >> the bad one, and he said he might swap also the bad one in the fixture >> above >> the laser cutter. >> >> this was done using the freestanding ladder near the upstairs fridge. >> >> >> On Fri, 13 Jul 2018, hol(a)gaskill.com wrote: >> >> If we've exhausted the fluorescent consumables and there are still >> >>> fixtures elsewhere in the Omni that can use these lights, I'd love to >>> start >>> working on LED conversion next tuesday. We have a freestanding ladder >>> that >>> can reach all those fixtures, right? >>> >>> On 2018-07-12 20:34, Jake wrote: >>> >>> are there any more working 8-foot-long fluorescent lightbulbs in omni? >>>> one of >>>> the ones in the northeast corner of sudoroom has stopped working (the >>>> west one) >>>> and the whole fixture is dark now. >>>> >>>> of course we should migrate to another type of light in the future, but >>>> i think >>>> we should use up all the fluorescent lights before we do that. >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> sudo-discuss mailing list >>>> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >>>> https://sudoroom.org/lists/listinfo/sudo-discuss >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >> sudo-discuss mailing list >> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >> https://sudoroom.org/lists/listinfo/sudo-discuss >> >> >