On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 12:25:35AM -0600, Dylan Griffiths wrote:
> Bruce Guenter wrote:
> >The back lights are on motion sensors, which ends up turning them on and
> >off many more times than normal. As mentioned elsewhere in the thread,
> >this greatly reduces their lifetime.
>
> I suspect that LED lamps will be able to serve in this respect soon.
> They're starting to become cost effective, and seem to fill the niches
> that regular florescents can't fill.
Yeah, high intensity LED lamps would be pretty near ideal for this,
except for their high initial cost. IIRC they are also currently also
lower in efficiency (in terms of lumens/W), but there's a lot of
development room left to make that better too.
-- Bruce Guenter <bruce_at_untroubled.org> http://untroubled.org/
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