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    Hopefully in a couple years you won’t be there to worry about it burning out. Although building prices are on the rise again.
     
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    Yes, I'm not going to get up to the Promise land anytime soon! :headbang::hair: it looks like I'm stuck here till things mello out with the price's and supply's.
     
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    I’m guessing late 2024 if the economy doesn’t tank before hand.
     
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    You mean the old fluorescent tubes? I've found that they break pretty easily and then they fit in the garbage can.:whistle:
    if it fits, it ships. lol
     
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    Caught it after the fact... I read ahead...
     
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    And still not really viable as a business model for US made products of this kind.
     
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    So I had planned to go to Concord anyway and stopped a Lowes to get a GE Ultra Bright LED for the stove room in the basement. Here is what it looks like with a regular bulb. Tried to take a picture of the water heater area, but it is dark enough back there that the camera adjusted for it - so a picture would not have shown the differencte (unless I wanted to photoshop, and I don't)
    Stove room regular light bulb.jpg

    This is with the GE construct - much brighter
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    The phone didn't need to manipulate the lighting - nice and bright by the water heater
    Stove roomat waater heater GE Ultra Bright LED - High.jpg

    The controls at the bottom of the construct
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    I have the arms rotated out (having them aimed straight down was super bright) and then the lights at 90* in the pic. Afterwards I changed the configuration a bit to make it so I'm not blinded by the one arm if I come around the corner from the dryer side.
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    The have a 5 year guarantee and were <$30. Yes, made in China but I didn't see anything on the USA made page that would just screw into the basic light socket that is already there.
     
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    Yes! They did well and produced good light, the issue was, breaking them :whistle: and they didn't seem to last but a year or so. I was a complete clutz though and I admit it! I broke "several" in a couple year time frame, my ceiling is only 8ft and after hanging them as close to the joists as I could, I still banged them with stuff! :headbang: I had a 4ft'r over my work bench and popped the tubes with a barrel :picard: while cleaning the rifle. I did that more then once... :loco: :crazy:o_O After several new words I invented :zip: I finally put up the screw in light fixtures back.
     
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    I for one will never, ever, EVER.....miss cleaning up fluorescent tube bits and pieces !!!!
     
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    As you can see here in my pics, I don't have a very big area where I reload. The new light has made a million % difference! :yes: Chinese, yes sadly but Dam... Is it bright. :cool:
    DSCN4961.JPG DSCN4960.JPG
     
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    Amen!!! :handshake: And as you can see it got EVERYWHERE! :eek: I was real tired of that also. :headbang:
     
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    As much as I hate to say it, I think this was a worth while investment for me. Again, Not American but I sure ain't cleaning up anymore tube glass. :hair: For the money, :emptywallet: I'm sold...
     
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    BTDT. Had to pick up shards of glass from a fluorescent tube at work (machine shop) nearly 30 yrs ago that randomly broke. It was 20 feet up, and made a heck of a mess when it hit concrete.
     
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    Like dropping a corelle bowl onto a tiled floor? Its like a grenade going off!
     
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    Yup that stuff is dam near indestructible until you drop one on the garage floor. Did that a year ago now and still finding pieces.
     
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    Thanks Eric VW.
     
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    It was noted! Thanks for the reminder on my nose!
     
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    When they first came out my parents got a set. My dad was showing how unbreakable they were. Grenade is definitely the word !!
     
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