I’m in a nasty frame of mind right now, and this is what my 'tism brain decided to laser focus on for several hours. I’m mad that my light bulbs cost 10x more than they used to, and don’t last any longer, and my power bill is higher than ever.

Yeah yeah, I know, it’s probably just capitalism shitting it up on purpose for profit. And bulb science is probably solid, I guess. I’m just pissed off that I just barely managed to scrape through this pay period with $2.78 left in the bank before I default on my mortgage.

Anyway, any lightbulb science comrades got any info?

  • FARTYSHARTBLAST@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    Either an electrical problem that’s burning them out or shitty bulbs.

    If you have a dimmer switch, you have to get dimmer compatible bulbs.

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      8 months ago

      shitty bulbs.

      +1 on that as a potential issue. Don’t recall the brand, but I had bought a pack of light bulbs where the whole pack was having issues, to the point I called an electrician to check. When the electrician came and saw the brand he told me “those are garbage” and that he had seen plenty of people having issues with that brand.

      I threw those away, bought some other brand. The exact same places where I was having to replace light bulbs often no longer had any issues.