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Originally Posted by JSMCMS
Gentlemen,
My name is Scott. I grew up in the '60s and '70s, got my electronics degree and have been working on modern 3 phase UPS systems for more than 30 years. About 10 years ago I built an Internet radio and picked up a TeleTone AA5 to house it. I looked at the removed chassis and figured out what was wrong with it and that started my fascination with tube electronics. I've restored several radios and TVs since then acquiring (and restoring) vintage test equipment along the way.
I am not trying to keep this going but it was never my intention to slam anyone other than the "Stupid Law" comment. I attempted to respond to the portion of vortalexfan's thread after Electronic M made the comment but I did not realize that my comment would be added to the end of the thread. That made it appear out of context which I now understand.
I obvious agree that the 2007 EISA decision restricting 60 watt and lower incandescent lamp production based on efficiency is a good thing. It does not mean you can't find these lower wattage lamps. It simply means that your typical source for these bulbs will likely dry up because marketing LED replacements are becoming more popular. The reason I commented in the first place is I was following vortalexfan's troubleshooting of his Meck TV and wanted to encourage a more sophisticated approach. I have re-read the thread and I now realize that not only was he struggling on some of the most basic troubleshooting concepts but his financial situation could not support my suggestion. I apologize for misreading the thread and writing a comment that was easily misunderstood.
I have benefited from being a videokarma member for more than two years and I'm hoping to regain trust from the membership.
With respect, Scott
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I've been missing Posts over the holidays including this post, and have yet to read the one that bothered vortelexfan (who for months I've been certain is a particular other member he has been accused of sounding like, but I won't go into specifics as I don't feel it needs my attention presently).
I want to logically justify my position in saying it was a stupid law before.
I'm a free market favoring capitalist and a DXer, among other things, and that law hacked both of those aspects of me off quite a bit.
First off as an American adult I feel deeply offended when something benign is made illegal to sell to me. Also I see global warming/climate change as nothing more than a Marxist strategy to destabilize and sieze big brother style control over our ecconomy. Marx himself proposed killing capitalism by getting the public to attack industry for pollution. Climate change has never been on solid ground scientifically, virtually all predictions especially the alarmist ones that have passed their it will happen by date have not come to pass, and there are many predictions that are in conflict with other such predictions...In short I believe it is all a bunch of hogwash made by politicians, scientists with overriding political motives, and scientists funded by politicians trying to please their source of funds...
I believe that as long as I pay for the energy I use and find some personally defined benefit in the way I use it then I should not be bound by someone else's efficiency standards.....If the opposite happens and consumer energy use regulations tighten we will likely eventually be banned from using our tube electronics based on their poor efficiency (and that prospect should bother all of us).
As a DXer and Licensed Ham radio opperator the proliferation of man-made radio noise in recent decades has bothered and hampered me greatly... non-incandescent lighting seems to be the most common source behind switch mode power supplies (that often are components of said lighting) which are also proliferating. I chose to use as little non-incandescent as possible to minimize the RF noise and I really wish we would all just go back to incandescent and 60Hz linear transformer supplies to reduce man made RF noise....I suppose an alternative would be for the government to completely ban the manufacture and import of noisy devices and force the alternative lighting solutions to get their noise problem under control, but the government doesn't seem to be interested...
I could also argue about the difference in actual light quality and that there are plenty of fixtures out there that don't properly support modern bulbs or look silly equipped with them but those arguments are IMO obvious.
The above represents my personal opinion. It is not intended to offend but rather merely to offer insight.