{"id":7995,"date":"2006-01-24T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-24T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/01\/24\/more-lightbulb-stuff\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:34:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:34:03","slug":"more-lightbulb-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/01\/24\/more-lightbulb-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"More lightbulb stuff&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hrm, more thinking about bulbs is leading me to believe that the GE Photofloods which I purchased earlier today just aren&#8217;t right for the job. I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunalite.com\/s_lightbulbs.cfm#sunwave\">these Sunwave full spectrum compact fluroescent<\/a> bulbs, which look like they may be just about right. 150W equivilent, CF, 5500K, and a CRI of 93, which should be plenty good for my needs. The bulbs will run about $60-something for four, but the lifetime on them should be great. I&#8217;m now thinking this may be the way to go&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>At least I can return these bulbs, having not even used them. < shrug ><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, instead of replacing the disk tomorrow I just rebuild the array, including the failing disk. It appears to complete offline SMART tests properly, so it looks like it&#8217;s just beginning to have issues. I&#8217;ll replace it when I have more time&#8230; It seems to be working for the time being, though.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> I just got off of the phone with Cindy from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clouddome.com\/\">Cloud Dome<\/a> during which time I ordered four of the aforementioned CF bulbs. I&#8217;m going to return the three GE BCA lamps to Camera Mart on Thursday, return the non-daylight &#8216;Daylight Plus&#8217; lamp to Lowes, return the crappy CFs to Home Depot tomorrow, and pick up one more clip-on work light. This should work out well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hrm, more thinking about bulbs is leading me to believe that the GE Photofloods which I purchased earlier today just aren&#8217;t right for the job. I came across these Sunwave full spectrum compact fluroescent bulbs, which look like they may be just about right. 150W equivilent, CF, 5500K, and a CRI of 93, which should\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-making-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13634,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7995\/revisions\/13634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}