I don’t know, i don’t know what kind of light bulb to get, there’s like 57 dozen varieties and I don’t want to start a fire

My dad’s just like “yup that’s a standard 800 lumen bulb”

(That’s not my hand btw)

    • hexthismess [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      2 days ago

      Go full industrial florescent lighting, with ballasts that buzz louder than should be possible. 1000W for a small bedroom should fo the trick. make sure you get bulbs that are as cool as possible so you can get headaches too

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      Just replying here to second what hexthismess has said. I replaced a bulb with an LED labeled as “bright white” that is 3000K and it is a nice warm temperature to my eyes. It is advertised as 60W equivalent, with the LED pulling 9W. If you got a 100W equivalent bulb in 5000K, probably labeled as “daylight” or such, you’d get ice-chewing psycho levels of harsh white illumination for 17W draw.

      I don’t think you’d start a fire or anything because you can check the lamp or outlet and they’ll say whatever it’s rated for and old incandescents were a lot more power hungry. I’d definitely go for LED, the energy saving, lifespan, and less energy released as heat makes up for the cost difference. Compact fluorescent lights were a good upgrade from incandescent but with LEDs now I don’t see the point.