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Old June 13th 10, 12:01 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
Bill Baka Bill Baka is offline
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Default (OT) Why the end of the lightbulb is a dark day for us all

On 06/12/2010 01:53 PM, RHF wrote:
On Jun 12, 7:10 am, Bill wrote:
On 06/11/2010 08:14 AM, bpnjensen wrote:

On Jun 11, 6:42 am, wrote:
wrote:
Them bulbs, them bulbs, them dryyy bulbs, doooooo the work of the
Lawd,,,,


And there was Light.
What will Ford Motor Company (Ford has a better Idea, CLICK!) do if
Incandescent Light Bulbs are outlawed in America?
cuhulin


Incandescent panel lamps will still be allowed for a while at least
won't they?


*Something* with a dimmer switch. Runs on a battery anyway...


Uh, Guys,
The amount of electricity taken by the headlamps is totally
insignificant compared to the power to move the car, so I don't think it
is a priority with any car maker. They have almost all gone to LED tail
lights and turn signals since they don't burn out nearly as often, it at
all, and they can claim to be going high tech. Headlamps I have seen a
lot of halogen but when a car is coming at me it is damn near blinding
even on low beam.
There's up and then there's downs to any technology.
Lets hope the LED's when they finally make it to headlights can have a
better focused beam.
Bill Baka


The big saving to the Auto Makers is that the
new LED Lights can use a smaller Wire and
help reduce the Cost and Weight of the Car.
{= Improved Fuel Economy} ~ RHF
.

A few ounces (or grams) of wire won't make much of a difference. There
was some talk a few years back of running one power wire around the car
and having each light, widget, or doohickey have it's own IP address in
the car and have it all controlled by a master computer. Think of what
could happen if your car was controlled by a single chip computer and it
got a virus or just a bad chunk of code. Thankfully that has not
happened, yet.
Bill Baka