LED Products are 100% Household Lighting Applications

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Don't you love the part where the SPAMMER asks us to be familiar with the application? Household lighting? You know, Rocket Science? As if there's a real danger you might buy their LEDs without quite knowing why?

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What're they for, mate?"

The header on the top of every page is REALLY OBNOXIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Don't bother, its an automated spambot not a real person (you can tell by the strings of gibberish).

I dunno, we have those at work. Strings of gibberish? They're from Marketing. Dead giveaway. The ones with the MBAs are best, especially when they give presentations. I've not suffered one bout of insomnia since.

Spambots? Hmm...are you sure? They look human anyway.

Until they open their mouths.

Oh I like the MBA presentations. I always ask at the end of them "What are your three proposals for discussion?" Most blink back at me at this point as their mental clutch mechanism desperately tries to grasp the point of my non sequitur. The few brave, honest or <polite adjective> individuals that answer "None" I thank them for the entertaining break from work and go back to my cubicle.

Modern spambots are surprisingly sophisticated and even Captcha defences can be breached now days by automated computer programs. Technology and programming moves on, why would anyone think that all of the progress would only be put into productive and legal things.

Still getting spammed at work by auto-dialers, so the classics are still around.

If I use an LED lamp in the refrigerator, how will I know if it goes out when I close the door?

More to the point, why should you care?

Simple: Pull out all the gizzards, step inside, and close the door. Easy peasy! The exercise is left to the student to attempt.

P.S. Make sure it isn't an old style Fridge with a latching mechanism, other wise one might become a Darwinsicle!

Run an optical fiber out through the door seal.

1. If the light stays on continuously you'll know the switch is bad.

2. If the light stays on but the intensity varies, you'll know that the switch is bad and that your unwitting Artificial Life experiment in the back of the vegetable bin was a complete success.

3. If it's Kilowatt's fridge and the light stays on but the intensity varies you'll know that the switch is bad and that the door latch is working.

See, that's another thing, if it is polarized light, it might have a detrimental effect.

Thanks for the swell optical fiber idea, although it is going to be tough getting a single fiber out of the cable, not to mention poking myself in the eye

Martini stirrers work and the rainbow colors from the polarized light look pretty cool after a few drinks.

Wow. There's a lot of added esoteric hardware needed for such a simple test. Getting the fiber optic to accept the refrigerator light, fixing that internal end alignment so that flexing the cable doesn't move it and then detecting the light this is or is not coming from the fiber optic receiving end above the background light level will add even more unnecessary complications. Let alone the added complication of choosing and acquiring single mode or multi-mode fiber. Just turn ON the video record feature of that smart phone, put it in the refrigerator, close the door, open the door and play it back.

I still want to know why bother turning OFF a sub watt light source in a refrigerator. One could even have a few UV LED elements (just the diode part) constantly ON inside to prevent growth. Preserving food is the primary goal of a refrigerator.

I started this "100% Household" icebox line as an attempt to match the levity, but you have turned it into many helpful hints.

Thanks redfred!

Great question! I think that, besides that fiber-optics proposed, you could try a photosensitive element, by the refrigerator lamp, connected to the right circuitry, taking care of passing all the wires at the door.

Now, I have a, somewhat, related experience, and, therefore, a question. When I try to get something from the far wall of the refrigerator, the light goes off! I move my position, and the light sometimes comes again. I think that there are many things to be explained about the refrigerator lamp (tungsten or LED)!

Bad door switch, the contacts just barely touching, possibly burnt through after years of use; something could have been spilt that wicked its way into the switch causing the mechanism to gum-up a bit. Does the button part move freely or is it sticky. It may just need cleaned a bit.

Cut a hole in the door.

[Milli]ammeter in series with the refrigerator light.

Duh. :-)

I tried that with my analog and the needle wrapped around when the compressor started

Needle? What's a needle?? We don't need no stinkin' needles....

What are the turn on current inrush characteristics for LED lamps?

I know the _{made in china} inline rocker switches on lamps don't last long with CFL,s.

The inrush currents for regular Auld Skool incandescent bulbs can't be any worse and my made-in-the-USA wall switches still work just fine after a gozillion years. I dunno, maybe the words 'Made in China' on all these products are the cause. If you sand them off maybe those switches will last longer?

The switches work fine on CFL's for a while, then you start to hear what sounds like the sizzle of bacon when you turn them off.

I'm hungry........

That sizzle is most likely due to a substitution in materials. China has the same problems as everyone else. Too many unqualified decision makers.

Hmm. Since the OP is obviously spam, and Admins haven't closed this thread: I am going to guess that they are letting us play in this sandbox, talking about ice boxes, so that we don't hijack another thread and turn it into a litter box!

Anybody got any good bathtub removal stories they want to share?

Does the light go out when you use a bathtub?

Only when you close the door...

... or does it?

I vaporized my old bath tub with lazer pointers. Those are LED's too aren't they?

Yes.

Could I perhaps interest you in an electron leak preventer?

It will save electricity by preventing electron leakage from the lamp socket when a

bulb is removed.

It may look like a blown Edison-type fuse,but it is not;trust me on this.

The normally clear window is blacked out to prevent copying of the patented internal

components.

Simply screw one of these into a lamp socket that is not being used when you

remove a blown bulb,and it will prevent electrons from leaking out.

Also ask about our receptacle electron leak preventer, that can be used in all

electrical outlets.

It may look like a male drop cord end, minus the cord,but there are no user

serviceable components inside,and warranty will be voided if opened.

For a complete catalog of Hitek Devices,call BR-549 (we also sell encyclopedias.)

You really have something there, I stuck my finger in an empty three-way socket and got shocked on all three positions. Do you have them in three-way?

Is the receptacle model two or three pole?

Seriously, for a moment. Knowing how little the public understands concepts like CRI, efficacy, and spectral distribution it is a market ripe for unhappy customers.

LED's are likely to replace 95% of the market, if the manufacturers conform to standards.

China has some 4000 fluorescent lamp manufacturers. Only a few try to compete with manufacturers that follow the standards. The rest really don't care to put that much effort into it.

For most customers, if it lights up it is good. That is not in the standards!

These mfrs should be made to live with their crap for a year before unleashing it on an unsuspecting world.

When Bill Gates was announcing Win98 SE, it bluescreened on him. He turned beet-red with anger.

For a moment all were silent until someone in the back piped-up: "Now you know how the rest of us feel, you sonofabitch."

I placed a 200 watt bulb in the refrigerator for a joke. You opened a Klieg light when you wanted to get some food.

A few years ago I was told to get a therapy light. I didn't like any of the products out there. I ended up placing a four foot four tube full spectrum fixture right above my bathroom mirror because that's where I would spend a half an hour every morning. In the process I learned about color power spectral curves, color rendering quality among other. I'd really like to set up light bars on either side of the mirror with halogen lamps, on a dimmer of course. The lights are already on a dimmer so I would just have to install the fixtures.

I'm waiting to see what comes up with LED lighting. I've already found screw-base LED flashlight bulbs that I use on my antique bicycle with a generator. They work great. Now I read that someone is producing warm white ones. I want them.