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    LED bulb to replace halogen Philips 50W quartz bulb with S3162 base

    I would like to replace this bulb Philips 50W quartz http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003FM1I9M/?tag=cpf0b6-20 with some LED equivalent. It is 120V, 50W, 750 lumen and uses the tiny screw base that I think is an E11 (11 mm) base. Surprisingly, can't find any hits on a search for something including...
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    DIY Surgical overhead / hanging light

    Further searching into MR16 threads reveals lots of bogus claims from Chinese sellers at too-good-to-be-true prices. Would be a big disappointment to build a big array of MR16's only to have failures due to improper heatsinking or 'fake' LEDs. There are indeed some cheap ones. Maybe I'll...
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    300,000 lumen rotating beacon on Freedom Tower/WTC

    Did nobody else see the comment about it costing $1000 per day to run??? Seems to me that at only 50 lumens per watt, for example and $0.10 per KWH running 6 hrs per day would be about $3.60 but perhaps it is being run by the federal government so they allow for some lack of efficiency.
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    DIY Surgical overhead / hanging light

    I would like to build an overhead surgical light vs retrofit an existing incandescent one. These are the types that are used in the OR and are usually two or three in number. The older lights were incandescent or HID, hot and heavy. Sure enough, LED's have taken over and now they the way to...
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