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Posted by Norminn on June 7, 2008, 5:31 pm
Mark wrote:
> Once you fix the water leaking in, try reducing your wattage to 60 or
> even 40. In the dark of night that is generally plenty of light to
> see and per our local police neighborhood watch coordinator is plenty
> of light to be a crime deterrent, and will save your plenty on your
> electric bill too - particularly if you have other lights with 100's
> in them that you can reduce as well.
>
>
>
>
>>
>>>
>>> What size bulb are you using? 60W? 40W? Fixture rated for what you
>>> are
>>> using?
>>
>>
>> Was using 100 and have since I got it three years ago. The blowing out
>> is more recent, starting in December or so. I don't recall what it is
>> rated for anymore (and the markings seem to have gone away over the
>> years) but I have been using 100s all along. I did do a 60 this time to
>> see if it makes any difference.
>
>
We got better use from bulbs when we switched to 40W appliance bulbs in
our outdoor
lights. The system is old, and we get lots of surges and outages, but
lower wattage bulbs
helped a lot. We also got better use from "hard use" or something like
that - don't recall
what the brand was.
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