[GreenKeys] Brightness

drlegendre drlegendre at gmail.com
Sun Jun 10 12:45:55 EDT 2018


Pardon, but what is a "spring house"?

Related to a "winter home"?

On Sat, Jun 9, 2018, 15:29 Pete Lancashire <pete at petelancashire.com> wrote:

> Must have been reading my mind. As I start inventorying the compact 28 I
> want to replace the incandescent lamps with LEDs but I course want to color
> match as best I can. I'll also still course provide a box of the real thing.
>
> On Sat, Jun 9, 2018, 1:25 PM WAYNE <teletypeparts at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> The chart that was posted is helpful to get approximately the same
>> brightness out of a LED as you had with the old incandescent.
>>
>>
>> The only issue is a lot of country folks use the common incandescent
>> bulbs as heaters for their spring house and other small areas that need
>> heating.  They can get a special heating bulb I imagine but it will not be
>> as cheap as common incandescent ones.
>>
>>
>> I have two bulbs in my spring house.  In the winter if the outside temp
>> goes below 32,  one lamp comes ON.  If it blows, a relay lights the other
>> one which is painted red.  Slog down in the snow and replace the first
>> bulb.  However, all this info is useless as we are finally going to drill a
>> deep well this summer.  No heating needed and no tending the spring.
>>
>>
>> 73,
>>
>>
>> Wayne
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