re: $9 CREE vs $15 GE 'smart' LEDs

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My house burns through lightbulbs faster than it should, though. Mostly the ceiling fans. In one room, before I replaced the ceiling fan, the fan could not run if the light was also on. I watched it burn out a bulb in under 10 seconds.

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dude dont get me started on dirty power. its a fricking joke. you don't get pristine 120v all the time from the electric company. you get somewhere between 110 and 125v most of the time.

you hit a shitty 120v bulb with 126v enough and pop goes the filament.

hold that shite up to the light after it blows and notice how much filament is still left in the bulb.

130v bulbs help..but GOOD LUCK FINDING THEM LOCALLY. only people who know about this and are smart enough to go to bulbs.com or one of those sites that sells 130v bulbs would even have a prayer of discovering this on their own. a 130v bulb with withstand those shitty power surges when you flip the light on better and *gasp* you will actually get a couple years use out of them.

frick this shite.

electricity, water and internet data caps. its all bullshite and the consumer loses every time there's an 'error' in metering.