LED light bulbs in garage door operators. The 75-watt conventional rough-service incandescent bulb in my garage-door opener burned out. Since one wants a vibration-resistant bulb, I replaced it with
I have not seen this specifically with the bulb in the opener, but now you have me wondering if installing LED's in the soffit lights outside the garage are an explanation for why the range of my gar
Both LED's and CFL's use switching power supplies built in the bulb base. It is common for them to cause RF interference across a wide spectrum. Their radiation limits are controlled on paper but not
Just one data point (well two, as I have two openers), several years ago I put a CF bulb in my garage door opener, as I didn't have a regular bulb. I expected it to fail quickly, but when it didn't,
Not all LED "bulbs" are created equal. Since LEDs are low voltage DC devices, the "bulbs" include switch mode power supplies that usually run at pretty high frequencies (to reduce the size of the in
-- Original Message -- Where do you live? Here in Minnesota it gets too cold for CF bulbs to start reliably. I must have gotten a good one, then. It had been in there for over a decade. At a couple o
Where do you live? Here in Minnesota it gets too cold for CF bulbs to start reliably. Pacific Northwest. And the way my house/garage is built (living space above and on one side, essentially undergro
BTW, you can still score regular incandescent 100 watters from Amazon. I bought TWO cases! That should hold me till the industry comes out with an alternative that 1) actually produces equivalent lig
I've got some el-cheapo CFL's at the hangar that light down to at least zero. I think the package actually promised -20, but about zero is about as cold as I can remember trying them. For rough-servi
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