Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
I actually vastly prefer LEDs. I'm not having to change bulbs all the time. The only enclosed fixtures I have them in are places where they aren't on long (e.g. closet, over the washer/dryer) so admittedly I don't have that issue.
The main gripe I have with them is why they picked (probably on purpose) 2 color temps at extremes (too warm, too white/blue) rather than one closer to what people prefer - I solve this by blending, like I have 2 cool 1 warm in my main bathroom fixture in a row and the blend works out. I do like having the white/cool where I really need to see stuff (garage). (In the garage, I have one regular bulb fixture - I put a splitter in that and 2 LED spots = pretty good, and for serious work I replaced 2 hanging infernal - I hate those things too - dying FL's with LEDs. MAN is it nice having that much light AND they work just as good when it's cold.)
Overall I feel that LEDs are a good technology. I use them because I don't want to pay the electric company extra money. The greater blue output of cool white gives them a bit more efficiency. Good idea mixing them.
The modern LED flashlights are superior to anything previous. Just 2 problems. Many are now a lot brighter than the need to be, so battery life isn't as long as it could be. And the switches seem to get corroded fast.
I got LED adapter kits for my old 3-D Mags. While they cost about the same as a new flashlight (maybe not a Maglite, these days)(say 20 bucks or so) it beats the heck out of throwing away something still good.