- Location
- Simi Valley, CA
Cowboy I agree with the savings. The issue is not about saving money. I am a Licensed professional as such I do service work in residential settings. I have to deal with the everyday person who just wants what they like. Thats it!. We as contractors need to be able to please our customers. I don't think that we as contractors should be held to these standards and being a criminal if we violate them. It's not like we are creating a heath and safety hazard! We actually might be creating one. Some people have serious issues with FL and LED. I don't like the light for reading or vision intensive tasks. I think I am getting eye strain since I placed FL in my house.
I'll tell you a little story. For years and years all you had to do for residential was put under the cabinet lights in the kitchen and that would comply, but everyone complained about even having to do that. Of course commercial was much more intense, and many jurisdictions weren't even insuring that we got the minimum standards. So at a California Electrical Inspectors meeting, in front of all my peers, I stood up and let them know that if they couldn't get even the minimums that the state was going to really come down hard on us and we were all going to wish we had just followed the rules. Now I had no idea whether that was going to happen or not. But the next code cycle came out and that's when we got hit hard, and then this one came out and we got hit even harder. Now they are outlawing incandesent bulbs of a certain wattage, and you can bet that within the next 10 years you probably won't be able to even buy a fixture in CA that takes an incandescent bulb.
Don't blame the government for this one either, you can blame the tree huggers and the scaredy cats that don't want more dams or nuclear power. The demand is exceeding the output and it costs money to produce electricity and no one wants to pay the costs. There is always a line between what you want and what you can have. If people won't make a sacrafice sometimes they are forced to make a sacrafice.