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1_H4t3_R3dd1t t1_j42wl1h wrote

But at what cost!!! About 6 incandescent light bulbs running 24 hours a day. With a spike of up to 18 in extreme circumstances.

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HORSELOCKSPACEPIRATE t1_j44gs6k wrote

That actually sounds terrible. Fortunately it's nowhere near that bad because you won't be running heavy loads all day.

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1_H4t3_R3dd1t t1_j451njj wrote

Depends what you do. It definitely isn't for productivity and I certainly wouldn't use it on a heavy game that requires a lot of processing power.

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PhotoSpike t1_j440ceg wrote

Those are tiny tiny light bulbs

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1_H4t3_R3dd1t t1_j44dbsb wrote

Those are leds, incandescent are the gas filled bulbs that can take a range or anywhere between 25watts to 100watts. They were chosen over longer lasting bulbs because of the bulb industry able to profit off the sale of.

Realistically a standard house hold incandescent bulb used 60watts.

6x60 is 360 I obviously exaggerated.

It is more like 4 to 11 incandescent bulbs.

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PhotoSpike t1_j466dyr wrote

You said 6 and 18 at peak. 18*60w=1080w.

At peak it draws 250w or just a tad over 4 standard incandescent bulbs. Probably actually slightly less then 4 bulbs depending on the efficiency of the ballast used if you took that into account. Also they get a lot higher then then 100w, in horticulture 400w&600w bulbs where common before leds replaced them. (Although a high quality incandescent can put out more light per watt then some of the really crappy horticulture lights)

Now I was probably exaggerating a bit when I said tiny tiny. At 250w/18 we would need a draw of about 13.888w this is the closest I can find it’s 11w so a little smaller then a 13.8w and tbh I would call it small not tiny.

these I would call tiny at ~0.4w per bulb but much smaller then this cob led, assuming we consider all the diodes on a cob to make up one light wich I totally would. In the same way we consider all the molecules in the wire of a bulbs filament part of the light, in fact if we take that to the extreme and argue all the diodes on a single lighting unit constitute a light (wich is a bit of a stretch) we get big boys like this and of course much larger.

Now if we want a tiny tiny incandescent light I would say we look more at something like this

And just because I like extremes while obviously not commercially available look at this 1.4 micron long 13nm wide incandescent light made at UCLA! And then there’s this fucking giant incandescent bulb

That is to say, no when I said tiny bulb I did not mean led. I meant smaller then the incandescent lights used in households in normal fixtures.

Also 11*60w is stil 660w and last I checked 660 is greater then 250.

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