On 23/02/2021 17:09, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
Kitchen has florries under the cupboards. Downlighters lighting the rest
of the worktops. A central pendant light over the table. All incandescent.
A 4 gang light switch at the door with three touch dimmers and a switch
for the florries.

The pendant light has a 4" Decorlamp 100w - BC. Which has blown. And NLA.
A halogen GLS lamp produces rather unpleasant patterns on the walls
through the lampshade. And looks very fierce viewed through the lampshade.
The large opal original was fine.

So let's find an LED to replace it. Not from TLC etc, and I want a 100w
equivalent.

Eventually find what look like should be OK from Any Lamp BV. Took ages to
arrive from the Netherlands. And is ES only. Eventually sourced ES pendant
lamp holders that take an ordinary lampshade - thanks to here.

Of course the touch dimmers are tungsten only. And don't want a mixture of
dimmers.

So make up a 4 gang plate with three push button trailing edge V-Pro and a
matching switch for the florries. And because of max load per dimmer have
to change the downlighter tungsten to LED too.

So instead of a couple of quid for a replacement lamp, it's cost me
getting on for 100 quid. It will be a long long time before I save that in
electricity costs.

Quite a few globe lamps here (pages 2 and 3 mainly):
https://www.energybulbs.co.uk/collections/globe-bulbs

All ES, of course. Are there any BC lamps sold now? I seem to have
accumulated umpteen unused BC compact fluorescents over the years, but
none of the lamp holders we have are BC, they are all ES. I looked in
Wilko for an an adapter yesterday, as they are shown on their website.
But there were none in the shop. I'll have to get to TLC, or some from
Amazon or wherever. Not expensive, but the P&P adds a good percentage of
the overall cost.

I'll probably have to replace our 30-years old Philips 115mm globe
compact fluorescent in a few years, but at present it still seems as
good as it always was.

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Jeff