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robotech_masterDay before yesterday, my halogen torchiere lamp finally gave up the ghost. The switch doesn't work, and the contacts with the bulb have apparently gotten damaged or worn to the point where they no longer provide power to the bulb even when the switch is on. So I trucked on down to a number of local stores to try to find a replacement.
It turned out not to be as simple as I had thought. Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Target, Lowe's, Home Depot—nobody carries halogen torchieres anymore. And why is that? Well, they burn at 1000 degrees, so if you're not careful, they'll "torchiere" house. And they do use a lot of energy and do so somewhat wastefully.
I don't know. I really wanted another halogen lamp—partly because I like the light they shed, but also because I know the halogen bulb I have is still good and wanted to get more use out of it. But if nobody local carries them, and the only way I could get one from Amazon would be to pay $14 for the lamp and $35 to ship the lamp—well, it starts to look kind of inefficient. And maybe I could do better than to have a 1000-degree heat source in my apartment at the height of summer.
Guess it's time to see if I can get a good compact fluorescent model inexpensively—I draw the line at an ordinary three-way incandescent.
It turned out not to be as simple as I had thought. Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Target, Lowe's, Home Depot—nobody carries halogen torchieres anymore. And why is that? Well, they burn at 1000 degrees, so if you're not careful, they'll "torchiere" house. And they do use a lot of energy and do so somewhat wastefully.
I don't know. I really wanted another halogen lamp—partly because I like the light they shed, but also because I know the halogen bulb I have is still good and wanted to get more use out of it. But if nobody local carries them, and the only way I could get one from Amazon would be to pay $14 for the lamp and $35 to ship the lamp—well, it starts to look kind of inefficient. And maybe I could do better than to have a 1000-degree heat source in my apartment at the height of summer.
Guess it's time to see if I can get a good compact fluorescent model inexpensively—I draw the line at an ordinary three-way incandescent.
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Date: 2008-06-06 09:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-06-06 10:30 pm (UTC)Somehow I doubt that putting a lamp together requires an electrician.