Nice People 13: Nice Save

michaels

We have an uplighter that takes 300w halogen bulbs, that still does the business...otherwise I'm not sure if it is the bulbs that are dimmer or just my eyes

michaels

IN theory the ceiling in here has 16x50w but they are leds so I suspect more like 16x 35w, plus the walls are unpainted plaster which is a real light sink and the 5 section bifold doors are covered by a black venetian blind - I just struggled to read the number of an amex card....

vivatifosi

Please don't quote, will delete.

Interesting query at library this week.

A couple of years back a wheeze of the local job centre when they were busy was to send people to the library and say we'd type their CVs for them. This is clearly not true, but it's a very neat trick to get people away from their desk.

However I was gobsmacked this week when a member of the public asked me whether they were a victim of fraud (one of the you've won a prize type ones). When I said that it was really a question for the Police, he told me that's who'd told him to come to the Library.

I'm hoping that next week I won't have someone sent in by their GP to diagnose their diabetes.

I know that funding is short, but it does rather beggar belief.

Nikkster

And they want to shut libraries down?!

Nikkster

PasturesNew wrote: »

That's not the view from your front garden is it....

No. But it's the view out the back for someone I know well.

I am currently Home Alone

Edit: not for much longer!

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

Most of the house has no lights as I've no lightbulbs that fit the peculiar fitting.

are you having trouble identifying the right light bulbs?

zagubov

I've now been forced to imagine a queue for information forming in a certain NPs workplace, like the one for Johnny the shoeshine boy an informant on Police Squad! who had a queue of people lining up for advice; firemen asking about difficult fires, DJs queuing up to ask about genres of music, surgeons asking about difficult operations.:D

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

There's another type of lightbulb out - by a Yorkshire firm - that says they're brighter, like old fashioned lamps. £10 apiece.

I do miss proper lighting. Once it's dark outside, these days, you can't see a thing indoors (unless you're a millionaire with gazillions of lamps/bulbs everywhere)

michaels wrote: »

We have an uplighter that takes 300w halogen bulbs, that still does the business...otherwise I'm not sure if it is the bulbs that are dimmer or just my eyes

Not being able to see properly indoors is what happens as you age. Your lenses gradually become less transparent - not white unless you're getting cataracts, but very very gradually more and more brown although still see-through - like sunglasses. Also, as your ability to focus deteriorates with age, you notice it more in dim lighting because if your pupil is big your lens has to work harder to focus the light - in bright light your pupil is much smaller and helps with the focus, like in a pinhole camera.

michaels wrote: »

IN theory the ceiling in here has 16x50w but they are leds so I suspect more like 16x 35w, plus the walls are unpainted plaster which is a real light sink and the 5 section bifold doors are covered by a black venetian blind - I just struggled to read the number of an amex card....

You have 35W LEDs?? They must be blinding. Most LEDs are less than 10W. A typical 50W GU10 bulb (what most kitchen light fittings are designed for) gives a light output of 340 lumens. But you can get 350 lumen LEDs that only use 5.3W.

Just in case there are NP who don't know - the lumens (sometimes abbreviated to lm) tell you how much light comes out, and the watts (W) tell you how much electricity gets used.

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

No, they are BC3s. But I can't walk in a shop and buy those... and so I've not got round to buying them online.

They are 3-pin bayonets

BC3 is a bizarre abomination, an attempt to ensure that householders use low energy bulbs. Fortunately, this did not catch on, but unfortunately that means the bulbs are ridiculously expensive. The simple solution is to get the bulb holders replaced. It's a 5 minute job plus the cost of a bulb holder.

You have my sympathy. These bulb holders were inflicted on you purely as a way for the developers to get a better energy rating for the property. Nanny state gone utterly bizarre.

GDB2222

LydiaJ wrote: »

Not being able to see properly indoors is what happens as you age. Your lenses gradually become less transparent - not white unless you're getting cataracts, but very very gradually more and more brown although still see-through - like sunglasses. Also, as your ability to focus deteriorates with age, you notice it more in dim lighting because if your pupil is big your lens has to work harder to focus the light - in bright light your pupil is much smaller and helps with the focus, like in a pinhole camera.



You have 35W LEDs?? They must be blinding. Most LEDs are less than 10W. A typical 50W GU10 bulb (what most kitchen light fittings are designed for) gives a light output of 340 lumens. But you can get 350 lumen LEDs that only use 5.3W.

Just in case there are NP who don't know - the lumens (sometimes abbreviated to lm) tell you how much light comes out, and the watts (W) tell you how much electricity gets used.

I think he must mean that he has LEDs equivalent in output to a standard 35w bulb.