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Incandescent light bulbs are officially banned in the U.S. (www.digitaljournal.com)
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Incandescent light bulbs are officially banned in the U.S.::America’s ban on incandescent light bulbs, 16 years in the making, is finally a reality. Well, mostly.

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[–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This sucks. I’m gonna have to compete with boomers for dim bulb tester refills.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thought LEDs can do this too

[–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

No/it depends on the board design.

Even if it’ll give you different brightness the behavior in weird conditions is different and it’s not diagnostic or protective and you can’t drop in lower wattage bulbs for testing and tv work.