A troubling trend in lighting?

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  @TechnologyConnections · 4 years ago · pinned

  Well, <i>I</i> might have taken a break but my hair sure didn’t. <br>Editor’s note: you may have noticed that I didn’t really come to a firm position on this topic. That’s because, well, I don’t really have one. Certainly some of the items I featured I think should be avoided, but the more basic thingamabobs I’m holding through much of the video? I still kinda like them. Time will tell how good these really are, I suppose, but they have the right stuff. Whether that’s worth axing the bulb socket? I’ll leave that up to you.

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• GI

  @gingerman5123 · 4 years ago

  I’d love a history of batteries and how they were standardized video.

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• CH

  @chrayez · 4 years ago

  “I have feelings about this - which you are all about to hear!”<br><br>Truly the tagline of Technology Connections.

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  @guyfriendo2917 · 4 years ago

  You take stuff that seems like it should be soul-crushingly boring and make it fascinating in the most midwestern way and this Michigander trying to learn home maintenance skills truly appreciates it

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  @fantasticalfascination · 3 years ago

  When my mom had her kitchen remodeled, she was talked into one of these fixtures, and was extremely angry when it stopped working within a few months and she couldn&apos;t replace it herself.

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  @seafood459 · 4 years ago

  Let&apos;s apreciate the fact that this man actually goes through the trouble of putting subtitles on his videos (not the crappy auto-generated ones). THANK YOU!

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  @Paios · 4 years ago (edited)

  Interesting side note:<br>Some LED bulb drivers are known to interfere with garage door opener radio frequencies. Happened to me. Bought this great LED flood for the front of the garage and couldn&apos;t open the door. Took about a half a day of head scratching and googling but I just wanted to share 🙃

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  @DanKillam · 4 years ago

  They&apos;re selling desk and floor lamps now with these integrated, unreplaceable LED panels. So when the LED fails you have to toss out the whole lamp. Huge amount of additional e-waste.

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  @jakespacecadet · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsIFxyOLJXM&amp;t=73">1:13</a> I skipped back because I was surprised you mistakenly said &quot;today&quot; twice but soon realized I&apos;d been had when I heard the third one

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  @palarious · 4 years ago

  The obvious solution would be a standard &quot;flat bulb&quot; design that can slot into any of these.

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  @amp710_88 · 3 years ago

  When I bought my house every light fixture was a permanent LED one. They all died within a year. Had to replace every single one of them with an actual light bulb one

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  @Entropic_Nightmares · 4 years ago

  The tough thing for me is trying to find replacements for all in one led fixtures because by the time the light starts to fail, the company doesn&apos;t even make them anymore in that style, in fact it&apos;s so old it not even on their discontinued list anymore. So then I go down the rabbit hole of trying to find a chip that can safely work for that driver but the specifications for the driver are extremely confusing and I just give up. And when it&apos;s a commercial building you can&apos;t just replace on light fixture in a room full of them without having to change them all so I&apos;m not entirely keen on them for commercial use when you have 20 of them and the product is sold a unit that no longer exists.

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