Good morning! Are you up yet? What's your plans for today?

[maraudinglizard]

Heads up y'all... weatherman says tomorrow will be a code red day in our neck of the woods. 

Not looking forward to this either, it's getting pretty old. My cousin's wife joked about preseason hurricane preparation with this mess going on. 

[bReTt]

Ok, up at 0530.  At least that was when the alarm was set.  I was probably asleep by 2200 and woke up initially @ 0430 when my alarm is normally set.  Set it later for 0530 for some extra sleep.  Traffic is better an hour later than if I left at normal time.  I think 0530 is my new wake up time on the days that I have to work the day shift.  An hour of sleep and easier traffic?  That’s a no brained right there!

At work currently.  Sitting here enjoying some quiet time with coffee and some food waiting for me.  Plan is to make it through the day and get to quitting time so I can go spend the evening at home with my people.  I don’t really care what we do I just want to be at home and conscious so I can experience life. 

Enjoy the day people!

[Rabbit\Squirrel Killer]

Good morning! well I got up and got ready for my 9:00 AM Cardiology Appt. Just as I was about to leave home at 8:00 AM and be on my way (it's a 40 minute drive), they called and canceled it because the doctor called off sick.


YES, now I can drink my coffee! (I never have any coffee before doctor appointments)



 I called and rescheduled for next Tuesday. ( I was able to get an hour earlier appt.) 


 SO, my plans have been changed, I have a load of scrap lumber that I was going to drop off at the dump on my way back home from the appointment to consolidate trips to save some gas. Now I am going to just go to the dump later today and I can take the next load next Tuesday if I get it loaded up.


 It's currently cloudy and 47°F and we are supposed to be sunny and have a high of 58°F today. The clouds will mostly move out by noon. I am going to wait a while before I go to the dump since there is no rush, I don't even have to do it today if something else seems better to me to do. The wind is 15mph now but is supposed to be down to 3mph by noon.

[avator]

Got a text that the bulbs for the 4' fluorescent fixtures were ready for pick up. I went and got them. I put them in and discovered there were only 7 instead of 8. They still work even with a missing bulb. I'm not going to complain about not getting 1 free bulb and I'm not making a special trip to buy one. If I happen to think about it when in Troy next week I might pick one up. I also need a special spring for my recliner so I may need to start a Lowes list.
Those 2 fixtures give great light coverage in the Red Shed. And once I hang the 3 2' LED lights over the work benches I might need sunglasses in there.   

[Rabbit\Squirrel Killer]

Got a text that the bulbs for the 4' fluorescent fixtures were ready for pick up. I went and got them. I put them in and discovered there were only 7 instead of 8. They still work even with a missing bulb. I'm not going to complain about not getting 1 free bulb and I'm not making a special trip to buy one. If I happen to think about it when in Troy next week I might pick one up. I also need a special spring for my recliner so I may need to start a Lowes list.
Those 2 fixtures give great light coverage in the Red Shed. And once I hang the 3 2' LED lights over the work benches I might need sunglasses in there.   

I have found at our age having too much light inside is pretty rare. 

[avator]

Those defuser lens covers really spread the light out evenly. And the bright bulbs don't hit you right in the eye balls when you look in that direction.

[buellm2]

Got a text that the bulbs for the 4' fluorescent fixtures were ready for pick up. I went and got them. I put them in and discovered there were only 7 instead of 8. They still work even with a missing bulb. I'm not going to complain about not getting 1 free bulb and I'm not making a special trip to buy one. If I happen to think about it when in Troy next week I might pick one up. I also need a special spring for my recliner so I may need to start a Lowes list.
Those 2 fixtures give great light coverage in the Red Shed. And once I hang the 3 2' LED lights over the work benches I might need sunglasses in there.   

I have found at our age having too much light inside is pretty rare. 

Yup,  I'd like to have any area that I'm working in at the same light level as a hospital operating room.   And I don't like the low temp warm light any more.   Lots of  5000K lamps for me.

[Insanity]

I prefer LED bulbs in the sunlight range.

[avator]

Those 2' LED lights that I will be putting over the three workbenches will work great and the fluorescents give good even light over the rest over the building.

[Rabbit\Squirrel Killer]

Those defuser lens covers really spread the light out evenly. And the bright bulbs don't hit you right in the eye balls when you look in that direction.

That's great it is really nice to have enough light to do small detail work.


I had some that had fail ballast and I bought some JESLED bulbs from amazon that by just rewiring without the ballast work really great and use just 24 Watts a piece. They should last a LONG time compared to the fluorescent bulbs which get dimmer as time goes by before they burn out. The 4' LEDs cost me about $8 per bulb when I bought them.


I liked them so well I converted our kitchen ceiling bulbs too and they light it up great. 



I tried to provide an Amazon link but for some reason the forum isn't allowing the link this time. I have posted links before and they always worked so I am not sure why it doesn't this time.


So, if/when interested in converting them to LED just search Amazon for JESLED 4' bulbs and I am sure you will find them.

[avator]

The light moving project is done and the tools are all put away. No dark corners in that room.

[buellm2]

Although I've converted almost every light fixture in my house to LEDs,  I find that the longevity claims are often not accurate.   I write the date of installation on new lights and a lot have failed long before the marketing estimate.   This is not the first big marketing scheme I've seen for lights.   About 30 years ago CFLs were all the rage with longevity and efficiency claims.   They were &^^&.     At least the LEDs are way better than CFLs particularly in the quality of the light.   

[Rabbit\Squirrel Killer]

Although I've converted almost every light fixture in my house to LEDs,  I find that the longevity claims are often not accurate.   I write the date of installation on new lights and a lot have failed long before the marketing estimate.   This is not the first big marketing scheme I've seen for lights.   About 30 years ago CFLs were all the rage with longevity and efficiency claims.   They were &^^&.     At least the LEDs are way better than CFLs particularly in the quality of the light.

I agree with that, I have seen the same thing. Time will tell with these tube LEDs, so far I have no failures on the tube LEDs. I am very skeptical they will even come close to the claimed life expectancy though. At lest they use less electricity.

[Sqrl Klr]

Speaking of bulbs I played switcharoo with several of them to find one that would work in my fridge to get rid of the two 60w incandescent bulbs that burn hot near instantly and it's too bright for me at night. Bought some but they're around the 8k blue range of light spectrum and I prefer 5k, plus they're too bright as well. Found a small 5k LED bulb in a lamp that should work in the fridge that puts out 60w of light at only a fraction of that power so it will look good during the day and not be too bright at night or burn hot in the short time I have the fridge open. I'm taking the bought bulbs back for a refund.

[Blowpipe Sam]

I'd love to find some daylight correct illumination for the inside of my studio.  No luck thus far.  I can work in pen and ink inside the studio but for color pencil work, markers, or painting I've got to have natural light. I do a lot of penciling and inking inside but for color I've got to work outside.  The plan is to add additional widows to the studio to get a good northern exposure.

I did purchase a pair of Walmart LED shop lights for the work bench though.  Got about 5,000 Lumens in there right now. It's almost bright enough to work on little fiddly airgun parts.

[avator]

Carter, have you tried deflecting the light with shades like they do for photo shoots?

[Blowpipe Sam]

Carter, have you tried deflecting the light with shades like they do for photo shoots?

This is a problem caused by the color bias of artificial lights.  If I mix colors under artificial lights they won't have the same hue when I take them out into natural light.  Some lights (Fluorescent) are worse than others.  I've got a stack of old windows to install.  Just got to get around to it.

[Jshooter71]

Good morning GTA! Happy Friday! I didn’t get home from work last night until 2100 hrs, but got showered and in bed by 2200. I set my alarm for 0500, but got up a little after 0400 and started my coffee. I want to get an early start because the last job I was on last night has no heat and I need to get back there before the real cold gets here. They have 5 heatpump package units and 4 are dead in the water and one is running in air conditioning. I know they have a control problem, from what I saw last night, and I need to fix that first. Hopefully, I can get them running right without finding too many mechanical problems afterwards. Unfortunately, if I want to get there in decent time, I’ll have to skip my chiropractor. I’m going to get on the road after my next cup o’Joe. I have a 2.5 hour drive to get there and the office might send me some help if they have somebody free.

[Back_Roads]

Carter, have you tried deflecting the light with shades like they do for photo shoots?

This is a problem caused by the color bias of artificial lights.  If I mix colors under artificial lights they won't have the same hue when I take them out into natural light.  Some lights (Fluorescent) are worse than others.  I've got a stack of old windows to install.  Just got to get around to it.

 SWMBO does interior painting for a living, and has customers not like the color they chose under artificial light, switching light bulb colors usually helps, sometimes she gets paid to repaint.

[maraudinglizard]

Good morning, waiting for round 2 of the weather, not only getting hammered again but a hard freeze is predicted on Tuesday. So it's break out the cold weather covers. I was hoping that plants could get by this winter without a hard freeze. I hope UPS gets here before the bad weather does, it's just some clothing but doesn't need to be pre washed either. I have a new flat lapidary machine I need to set up and start shaping and polishing some stuff.