>>Dean is right--but only for incandescent technology. Maybe I could help clarify a little here. A light bulb converts electrical energy to heat energy and light. A fluorescent bulb is more efficient at producing light than incandescent and a LED is more efficient yet. But still very little of the electrical energy is going into light production and most of it is going into heat. It really does not matter what kind of light source you have, a good rule of thumb for how much heat is generated is the electrical consumption. It will never produce more than its electrical draw, conservation of energy won't allow it. Or were you talking about the dimmer switches? On those, of course, you can only use incandescent bulbs or halogens. Dean Dean May cell 812.239.3359 PianoRebuilders.com 812.235.5272 Terre Haute IN 47802 -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Don Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 12:13 AM To: Pianotech Subject: RE: An Urgent Message - Risk of Fire Hi Susan, Trust me the led bulbs run very cool. Ten of them would draw 18 watts--and produce about the same intensity of light as one 450 watt bulb. At 09:20 PM 7/19/2005 -0700, you wrote: >At 09:35 PM 7/19/2005 -0500, you wrote: >>Virtually all of the energy consumed by a bulb goes into heat >>production. > >Dean, do you know if this is also true of the new LED bulbs? >I don't see how it could be true, if they draw that little power >and make that much light. > >I'll try the web soon, and see what I can find out. > >Susan Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T. Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat mailto:pianotuna@yahoo.com http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/ 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK, S4S 5G7 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner _______________________________________________ pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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