Wattage on home depot/lowes/wal mart 4 foot lighting fixture?

Erica, You might not need to answer all of these questions if you didn't know it all. I know it is tough, but maybe you should fake it or something. Maybe do something like a possum, but instead of playing dead, play dumb. Might give you a bit of peace and quiet.

Erica, You might not need to answer all of these questions if you didn't know it all. I know it is tough, but maybe you should fake it or something. Maybe do something like a possum, but instead of playing dead, play dumb. Might give you a bit of peace and quiet.

Ah, gotta love Skipjack's continuous condescension.

I bought two of those premade for aquarium LED fixtures. In both of them (Odyssea brand, for everyone's reference), the LEDs burned out within a year. So I do have some experience with them. The ability to change a fluorescent bulb if it's burned out is sort of amazing once you've owned an LED fixture that that's not an option with.

Crap Erica, if nothing else you are one hell of a good sport.!!!

Erica have you ever incorporated the fact that fluorescent tubes contain hazardous mercury into your calculations as to the best lighting system? I'm sure that most if not all of us here agree that it takes a certain kind of person to value profits above the environment and those who live in it..............

Erica have you ever incorporated the fact that fluorescent tubes contain hazardous mercury into your calculations as to the best lighting system? I'm sure that most if not all of us here agree that it takes a certain kind of person to value profits above the environment and those who live in it..............

Are LED bulbs faultless?

"Scientists from UC Irvine and UC Davis pulverized multicolored LED Christmas lights, traffic signal lights, and automobile head and brake lights, allowed residue to leach from them, and then analyzed its chemical content. They discovered that low-intensity red LEDs contained up to eight times the amount of lead allowed under California law, although generally brighter bulbs tended to contain the most contaminants. While white bulbs had a lower lead content than their colored counterparts, they still had high levels of nickel.

Besides the lead and nickel, the bulbs and their associated parts were also found to contain arsenic, copper, and other metals that have been linked to different cancers, neurological damage, kidney disease, hypertension, skin rashes and other illnesses in humans, and to ecological damage in waterways. UC Irvine’s Oladele Ogunseitan said that while breaking a single bulb and breathing its fumes would not automatically cause cancer, it could be the tipping point for an individual regularly exposed to another carcinogen.

The study found that the production, use and disposal of LEDs all present health risks, which the public should be made aware of. It suggests that a special broom, gloves and mask should be used when cleaning up broken bulbs, and that crews attending to car accidents or broken traffic lights should be required to wear protective gear, and treat the material as hazardous waste."

http://www.gizmag.co...c-metals/17876/

Without some way of calculating the amount of hazardous waste per lumen of output there's no real way of telling. Although I would contend that the fluorescents pose a higher risk because their hazardous content is much more likely to be accessed due to their physical construction. Put it in the trash and it will get broken and the toxin released. In normal disposal an individual led emitter is much less likely to be structurally compromised to allow the release.