Anyone Else Stocking up on 100W Bulbs?...or Am I Just Crazy?

lumpocoal · Post by **lumpocoal** » Mon. Jan. 02, 2012 10:13 pm

LED ligts on tractor trailers suck in the winter, all the snow that blows up behind in the draft covers them, and they don't get warm enough so the snow dosent melt off like incandecent bulbs, Big accident on 90 last year cause of em. I swap the LEDs out for the trusty ol SUPER 40 pop in incandecents.

SMITTY · Post by **SMITTY** » Mon. Jan. 02, 2012 10:23 pm

Yep - as a new driver they were just starting to install those in all the trailers where I worked in '03, so some had traditional lights, but the rest LED. I got to experience that problem first hand, seeing I got hired in the thick of winter.

Hell of a way to learn to drive. Set of doubles, on an unplowed major highway at 05:30 after working all night long on a loading dock with a pallet jack (no forklift for the new guy ...) moving hundreds of tons of freight, tired, empty kite, 20k on the lead ... then watching the kite almost pass me after jacking brakes on after coming up on a plow in blinding snow!

I was instantly warm after that!!

Thank God there were no cars in either lane beside me. My driving career would've ended my first day! Though for sure I was done for. Good thing I screwed around with vehicles as a youngster. Had I stayed on the brakes like most people instinctively do, It would've been game over.

lumpocoal · Post by **lumpocoal** » Mon. Jan. 02, 2012 10:29 pm

Im laid off for the winter this year (it alternates) last year Ive had a few close ones that make ya pucker... It don't help that others out there are prolly the most dangerous, Im kinda glad for the lay-off this year. We are getin some "lake effect snow around here... for the second time this year

Poconoeagle · Post by **Poconoeagle** » Mon. Jan. 02, 2012 11:12 pm

snow? whats that?

ValterBorges · Post by **ValterBorges** » Mon. Jan. 02, 2012 11:22 pm

Bjs was having a sale on 43w halogens put out 65w equivallent and soft light, dimmable hallogen bulbs they look just like incandescents, put out good light, they get hot but not as hot as incandescents. They were 2 each. Much better than the 8$ non dimmable led, which still get hot on the large metal surrounding to the transformer.

Hallogen also work much better on the flood lighting and those flood dimmable leds are like 38$.

Best part made in usa.

Walmart equivalent ge model is 24$.

lumpocoal · Post by **lumpocoal** » Mon. Jan. 02, 2012 11:28 pm

Holy crap somthin new made in the usa....wait it was assembled in usa? or was it manufactured and assmbled here? Advertising can be tricky

Poconoeagle · Post by **Poconoeagle** » Mon. Jan. 02, 2012 11:31 pm

well the cardboard was made here

lumpocoal · Post by **lumpocoal** » Mon. Jan. 02, 2012 11:33 pm

Poconoeagle wrote:well the cardboard was made here

lol

Freddy · Post by **Freddy** » Tue. Jan. 03, 2012 3:57 am

Poconoeagle wrote:
at $85 bucks a pop .

Who is paying $85? I've never seen them over $40. Home Depot is selling the 12 watt for around $25 now.

Poconoeagle · Post by **Poconoeagle** » Tue. Jan. 03, 2012 7:06 am

MSC..........

lumpocoal · Post by **lumpocoal** » Tue. Jan. 03, 2012 4:08 pm

Poconoeagle wrote:snow? whats that?

my Webber has a top hat today

SMITTY · Post by **SMITTY** » Tue. Jan. 03, 2012 7:36 pm

Now that's a fashion statement you guys can keep far, far away from here!

lumpocoal · Post by **lumpocoal** » Tue. Jan. 03, 2012 8:13 pm

SMITTY wrote:Now that's a fashion statement you guys can keep far, far away from here!

Thats what we got last night, dang lake effect snow.....

SMITTY · Post by **SMITTY** » Tue. Jan. 03, 2012 8:31 pm

Yeah for decades I've always watched the weather reports for that part of the country and thanked my lucky stars I didn't live near that small ocean they called a "lake".

We haven't got anything measurable since the October nightmare. A couple squalls here & there, but no accumulation. Of course, that didn't stop the state from dumping 5 trillion tons of salt on the roads so far this year ...

lumpocoal · Post by **lumpocoal** » Tue. Jan. 03, 2012 9:11 pm

LOL, I have been laid off since thanksgiving, my truck with its fuel problems started the day after I got laid off, so I havent drove anywhere since. My parents live 3 miles away so if I need a lift to town Ill call em. SO....I traded a wondercoal stove and $100 for an 88 chevy 2wd w 291,000 mi on it, as you can see I cant drive it anywhere anyway,lol

Anyone Else Stocking up on 100W Bulbs?...or Am I Just Crazy?

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