“Old” was never meant and never will be a synonym of “useless”, but, again, this needs application of elementary logic to admit it…which is exactly what tends to be the weak link in our modern life…
Anyway…as you said, the only thing we can do is to save as many of equipment as possible from the garbage bin…And this is what we do!

Thanks again Gerald

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Thanks Paris and Enrique. Totally agreed with you guys. I am also from the old school myself (not yet 99 though 🙂 and I love old technologies. Missing the time when engineers were rewarded for quality, and durability rather than for saving a few cents in using lower quality components.
Not much we can do but keeping saving equipment from the trash whenever we can.

Cheers,
Gerald

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Dear Gerald

Articles like this one of yours, apart from being very interesting for me, unfortunately cause me an undesirable side effect (and I would like to believe that the same holds true for many other readers interested in seeking an answer in questions or dilemmas like; what is true or false, what is worthwhile or worthless, what represents a real value and what “shines like gold” but it is simply “polished bronze” in our lives…And I am referring to modern marketing and its connection with modern industry…
In simple words I am totally disappointed of what is going on (at least but not exclusively) in the world of electronic products.
Anyway I belong to “the old school” and therefore I believe that the industry in general should cover existing human needs and not create needs in places they are simply not needed.
All I am trying to say is that yes I need a washing machine for my laundry but I don’t really see any reason for this machine to include a TV set on it. Similarly, I don’t see any reason to replace my good old CRT TV set with a plasma set (only because it is old technology. I am a user. I don’t buy technology because I don’t need it. But I need to watch TV for the news and enjoyment. If I don’t have one I will chose one from the currently existing technology. But as long as this set I already own works perfectly I don’t see any good reason to throw it away because its technology is old. It still covers my needs)….
And how the modern society reacts on these dilemmas makes me really sick. I really can’t stand this any more and feeling that I cannot do anything about it makes things worse to me. Moreover if I connect the fact that people tend to throw away their goods after the first failure without any attempt for repairing them, this really drives me crazy. The bottom line Gerald is that I see “Logic” diminishing rapidly over time and this is the basis of my disappointment.
But I don’t blame you for this excellent (despite the “wound scratching”) article!!...
Take care of yourself and bring more similar articles under the light of publicity. They are really worthwhile as per the context of all these above (at least)…

Greetings!

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I agree Henrique. I just forgot these droplets of mercury hidden therein which is the worst case scenario if a CFL lamp gets broken when being installed in a closed room. (And I wonder in this case if this reference has to do with only its mishandling during either its installation or de-installation, or if it referenced to its possible breakage when it is working, when these mercury droplets will be evaporated within the lamp and then the mercury cloud will be spread all over the place after the breakage). Next to that, as I read in the web, a special contractor is needed having the proper tools in order to clean the area and bring it again in a health-safe status for the people living therein …And the cost of such a case reaches very easily the amount of 3.000$...Simply amazing isn’t it? Finally, if this holds true and we call it progress please let me prefer using candles! They won’t hurt that power factor whatsoever!

Greetings

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Thanks Paris for your support and comments. Definitely the power factor is a real disadvantage of those lamps and things are not getting better. The new LED bulb I just bought to replace the faulty one is rated 9 W and 80 mA! 240 V and 80 mA (if it is true, I haven't measured it yet) would correspond to 19.2 VA. For 9 W of real power! The lamp comes from the same manufacturer and let me think that the first one, bought 4 years ago (10 W and 55 mA), was much better. Some cost cutting exercises may have happen in between! I read somewhere that electricity companies are considering charging for reactive power on domestic users. That will become really interesting.
Cheers, Gerald

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Thanks for your support Suranga

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