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Re: Lighting related pet hates?

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2016 4:18 pm
by FrontSideBus
People advertising LED lamps as using 80% or something less energy with people failing to realise that they are comparing it to incandescent and not understanding that fluorescent and CFL ect *Already* uses 80-odd percent less energy than incandescent!

Re: Lighting related pet hates?

Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 2:39 am
by XmasLightGuy
Really pisses me off when people refer to lamps as "light bulbs".... they are lamps, not bulbs! :)
Fluorescent lights being called strip lights
Bits of differences in the 'English language' between countries...
Both of these two are the normal names for said items here!

Re: Lighting related pet hates?

Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 4:48 am
by FrontSideBus
A bulb is something that is planted in a flower bed :D

Re: Lighting related pet hates?

Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 5:07 am
by XmasLightGuy
A bulb is something that is planted in a flower bed :D
I have some of those type of bulbs waiting to be planted :) .. probably won't happen til May though.

Re: Lighting related pet hates?

Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2016 2:50 pm
by FrontSideBus
The term "fixture" bugs me too tbh. I prefer fitting or luminaire ect.