Osram vs. Gauss, or how I looked for a halogen replacement — updated a year later: it’s all bad
I was getting tired of replacing the capsule halogen bulbs in my desk lamp. I’d tried both name-brand and no-name ones, and the main difference was brightness. The lamp had also been on for 10–12 hours a day lately, so I decided to save some money and switch to something more modern—and see what was available on the market.
LED ceiling lights, part 2: learning from past mistakes
31-12-2018, 14:11
Almost five years ago, I published a review of some lights and described the problems I ran into back then. Now I needed similar lights again, but since I already had a bad experience with this kind of product, I went about choosing them a little differently this time.
3-Watt 2820 LED Arrays
28-09-2018, 12:55
This story began quite a while ago. First, about four and a half years ago, I bought several LED lights that had worked pretty well all this time. Then one of them finally failed. Since I didn't want to replace them all, the obvious decision was to repair it and, while I was at it, put together a "repair kit" for the others, which were still working.
