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ApK · 02-09-2016, 01:37 PM

A couple quick comments following the slightly off-top tangents:
1. My car is a 2002 model. It's a approaching 200,000 miles, and I hope to keep it going as long as possible. Lately the trend seems to be encouraging people to buy new cars for reasons of financing, fashion, features, or fuel economy, not by artificially rendering previous models obsolete. That's fine.

2. Light bulbs: My biggest fear about the new, wonderful push toward LED lighting, is that, while the LEDs will last 10s or 100s of thousands of hours, manufactures will make the driver components and internal connections as cheaply as possible, ensuring that they fail long before the LEDs would, thereby undoing the best thing to happen to lighting since Edison.

02-09-2016, 01:37 PM	#193
ApK Award-Winning Participant Posts: 7,389 Karma: 68329346 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: NJ, USA Device: Kindle	A couple quick comments following the slightly off-top tangents: 1. My car is a 2002 model. It's a approaching 200,000 miles, and I hope to keep it going as long as possible. Lately the trend seems to be encouraging people to buy new cars for reasons of financing, fashion, features, or fuel economy, not by artificially rendering previous models obsolete. That's fine. 2. Light bulbs: My biggest fear about the new, wonderful push toward LED lighting, is that, while the LEDs will last 10s or 100s of thousands of hours, manufactures will make the driver components and internal connections as cheaply as possible, ensuring that they fail long before the LEDs would, thereby undoing the best thing to happen to lighting since Edison. Last edited by ApK; 02-09-2016 at 01:39 PM.