… such a good day today. And after last night, I’m hardly surprised.
After I had posted yesterday’s entry, I switched the light on over the kitchen area and the bulb promptly blew out. One of the old incadescent ones that were in here when I moved in so it’s no big loss.
And although it wasn’t as early a night as I would have liked, I was asleep pretty quickly, and away on my travels. I’m not sure what I had done but I had been sentenced to death by beheading. The Queen came to see my execution so I asked her if I could have a last request. She told me not to be silly, to stop wasting time and to get on with it so I laid my head on the block hoping that it wasn’t going to be too painful.
I’ve done a little cleaning up today too. I’ve been too ill to do it this last couple of weeks but the place was in such a mess that I fetched out the vacuum cleaner and gave the place a quick once-over. And not before time either. When I can summon up more energy I’ll do some more.
Tea was mashed potatoes, vegetables and a vegan burger with onion gravy. And delicious it was too. But for some reason the steamer tripped out the main fuse and I’ve no idea why.
And for a change, I rotated my walks today. This afternoon I took my walk around the headland in the fresh air. And very pleasant it was. But it wore me out again and I was crashed out for a couple of hours when I came back. Definitely in a bad way. I felt absolutely dreadful when I awoke.
This evening I took the route around the walls in the dark. That was avery pleasant stroll too, especially in the new garden that they have created – the Place Maurice Marland.
He was someone in the French Resistance who lost his life at the hands of the Gestapo, and there’s a memorial in the gardens with the names of the other civilians of the area who similarly lost their lives.
And on the way back I encountered a new friend – an old long-haired black cat. He and I had a very long chat and social interaction.
I’ll try now to have an early night and a good sleep. I really ought to start to feel better soon because in a couple of weeks I have to go back to Belgium and I can’t go feeling like this.
I’m quite happy with incandescent lights. The cfls are kinda sorta ok but don’t produce near,y the light of an incandescent. The led bulbs are just plain miserable. Very dazzling to look at, not very good at illuminating anything, devilishly expensive and very short lived. Out of 6 led bulbs from 3 different suppliers all but two blew within 6 months. Not cost effective. I read online reviews and while 50% give these LEDs 5 stars, the rest echo my experience. If I was you, I’d be ordering more incandescent bulbs.
I don’t understand your problem. I had some of the very first generation LEDs when they were launched and while they weren’t very bright they were still functioning last time I looked. On the other hand, the secnd and subsquent generation of LED lights are magnificent and as you know, I ripped out all of the halogens on the farm years ado and replaced everything with LEDs?
Only one of those that didn’t work was one that fell on the ground out of the eaves of the hose and broke. Apart from that, I’ve had LEDs drop 10 and 20 feet and still function.
Best thing in the world, LEDs.
I just have a rotten experience with anything led. Remember those pathetic little led lanterns in my bus? Hardly any light coming from them. I could turn every one of them on and sit it on the desk and still not have much light.
The household led bulbs are bright but don’t last two minutes. I’ve been forbidden to buy any more of them. They’re that bad.
You were telling me how good they were the other week LOL.
The household bulbs are…. when they work (which isn’t much).
The led lanterns are just pathetic. I’m probably going to put some form of 12v incandescent lighting into the Bus, somehow.
You’ll regret going for 12-volt incandescents. They will flatten your batteries in no time.
If I can even find incandescent. Candles have more power than most of these LED lanterns.
I wish they would make these things to be eye friendly – plenty light. Diffused Light and not that harsh blue they mostly have maskerading as “white”. Then doing away with the settings. Dim, dimmer and whether the dickens is that blasted lantern?
I realized I forgot to give you the mug that that FBI fellow gave me to give to you after that event a decade ago. It’s still in my bus.
12-volt car light bulbs – you can use them. But there’s nothign wrong with LEDs from my experience. I have them everywhere in my farm and they are great. I even have some 12-volt LED striplights that do the job. They are 0.75-watt and you can link them together to make a huge striplight. For about 5 or 6 watts you’ll light up each room in your bus.
And just remind me on that incident because it seems to have slipped my mind.
It’s just a blue mug that says FBI Columbia Division that came from the FBI shop that only FBI staff can access. It was actually sitting in a storage box underneath the bed! You were pretty darned close to it.
Actually I’m finding incandescent bulbs very hard to find right now. Those low voltage LED ones look horrrendous. Very harsh – if they even last!
My best of the LED lanterns is my GE Enbrighten 350 lumen thing. They could easily have left the silly dim, dimmer and dimmest settings off and had simply on or off. That’s one thing I hate about electronics – they like to add too many pointless features. It’s yellower than most but in daylight still looks a bit bluish.
I’ve put extra wires into my wiring bundles in the thought that I can add extra lighting as required. Maybe something with an E26 mount.
My charge controller is being a pain in the butt. It seems not to like my using a common negative which si a pain because I wired all my circuits to use the bus as the negative. Looks like to keep the controller happy I’m going to have to put a positive and a negative wire straight to it from the battery. Even then I’m not sure it’s going to be all that happy. I might end up having to work it another way – without a fancy charge controller. Use a voltage switch instead.