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Article: LED work lights are safer, use less electricity.(Real Estate)
- Article from:
- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- November 21, 2008
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Q. I like to work on my cars in the garage and do other projects around the house, and in doing so I use a cage-type work light. It gets hot, so I know it wastes electricity. What other work light options are available?
A. Cage-type work lights are inexpensive to buy, but as with most products, you get what you pay for. All of that heat you feel, sometimes with burn marks on your arms to prove it, is just wasted electricity from the inefficient incandescent bulb it uses. If you are lucky and the bulb does not break, it will last only about 1,000 hours.
What makes efficiency matters even worse is most people end up using long-life or rough-duty ...