More FYI:
Kohler makes great fixtures but their faucets fall way below those standards. Good at half price or less, but you’ll get what you pay for. Kohler also ‘cheapens’ some of the ones it sends to the ‘big-box’ stores, they look the same on the outside but the insides are not the same as Kohler bought from a plumbing supply. Not sure if all their models do this but many do. Moen and American Standard are doing the same now. If they made lights to sell there. they’d have LB emitters for sure :rage:
Yes, that’s what I am talking about. That method has lots of names, like the “roadie wrap” etc. depending on the trade.
I used to tell the guys, while wrapping the cord, just keep repeating “over worked, under paid”
How right you are. Home Depot and places like WalMart are so huge and have such buying power that they can dictate the prices they want to pay. OEM’s then have to figure out if they are willing to cut quality to get the sales.
The thing is these days, to get the kind of quality in faucets of yesteryear, one would have to pay $600 and up for a faucet. Not many of us are willing to do that.
WARNING: Graphic content to follow!
A couple of years ago my wife came home with a “new pull” from a newly constructed home. She found it at a Habitat for Humanity ReStore. It was a brand new Kohler Pedestal sink and toilet. Complete with brass faucets and all bathroom hardware. Towel bars etc.
It must have come from a house just built and the owners ripped it out and replaced them with something else that suited them. The color was “Wild Rose”
She asked me to install them in the half bath off the kitchen, which I did. The problem is that the wooden toilet seat was an exact match color wise with the sink and toilet, and after a few years it needed to be replaced. I knew going in that this day was coming. I went online and found the seat on Amazon.
How do you like that, $144.00 for a freaking toilet seat! I don’t think the U.S. Government pays that much for toilet seats
Anybody that thinks I’m paying $144 for a toilet seat has an other thing coming.
So because I am so cheap value conscience, and a modder at heart, I found a close match color wise at Lowes. Trouble is, the hinges for the Kohler are sort of proprietary AND the hinges on the one from Lowes were damaged. That’s why I was able to buy the toilet seat on clearance for only $5
So I drilled new holes and mounted the Lowes seat, CHURCH brand, to the original Kohler seat hinges.
The wife is OK with that, so for the time being I dodged a bullet. I’m supposed to be looking for a closer match. :innocent:
Beware, a new low for BLF. What follows is a picture of a toilet!
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That’s what I always say. ReStore is great. If you need a toilet, instead of getting a cheap toilet for ~$80, go to the restore and you are likely to find one or more nice toilets for much lower prices. We got a Kohler Rialto, in good condition, for $20 there; original price is like $500.
radioshaq,
Today I got a chance to scan for price one of the ordinary TCP Connected 60W equiv bulbs. I took a copy of the UPC code I posted and got this.
I was also able to find one of the 90W equiv down lights, not the 65W equiv that you scanned. It came up at $39.97. As far as I know, this is the only TCP Connected product left in HD. There are other TCP bulbs, just not the Connected ones.
Maybe your “recall” message is equivalent to my “item not found”
Maybe not. something funny has happened with the TCP connected stuff. The “Connected” system is supposed to be Wink app compatible, it says so right on the box.
Notice the Blue dot.
But when I go into my Wink app, I see this when I try to connect a TCP bulb.
Considering i posted just before that post i must have read it, but i didn’t remember it (probably because i didn’t buy it till months later). Odd that we paid the same price!
It will only charge a nexus 4 once then be down to under 40%, so i suspect a linear driver, and if the same for 12V i don’t see how it could boost a car (but i hope it does), plus it would be burning 6V doing so, so a very strange setup.
That pack contains 6S1P Samsung 20Q’s. A 20Q is 2000mAh, or 2Ah.
When this pack is not used to actually jump start a car but rather as a portable battery charger. The directions tell us to connect it to the battery either with the jumpers or thru the cigarette lighter. Most cigarette lighters are fused for 10A, so we know this pack outputs less than that. Say 6A and if that is the case, then connecting it for 10 minutes it will have put back 6A x 10/60 hours or 1Ah which is about half the capacity of the pack. That would give you about 10 seconds of cranking power. (my estimate)
Say it takes 400A to crank start a car. We just put in 1Ah of energy into the car battery with this pack, so
(400A) x (10 sec) x (1 min/60 sec) x (1 Hr/60 min) = 1.111Ah, (1111mAh)
That is about equal to what this pack will put into a car battery when connected for 10 minutes.
BTW, If you can’t start your car within 10 seconds of cranking, you’re out of luck. So if you have a weak battery AND an engine that needs a tuneup, you’re screwed
I and others have already used this for that purpose, and it works. But only if you follow the instructions.
Also I might add, I have gotten cars started over the years with ordinary extension cords. In a pinch, cut the plugs and use the wires to connect the batteries of both vehicles. And yes, 16ga wire will work for this
Once again, wait about 10 minutes, because in this case also, you are not jump starting the car but rather charging the battery.
I don’t disagree that the energy needed to start a car is low, you can get capacitor packs (home made) that hold as much cumulative energy as 1 x 18650 and it will start a car, because the 6 eneloops worth of energy is delivered in 1-2 amazingly high discharge power seconds, but can a battery brought from 0% charge to under 5% start a car?
Apparently the answer is yes.
I know that it charges the battery instead of starting off the li ion battery because of the time stated in the instructions and the Samsungs can’t output 250C! I am still skeptical but i assume it must work if its on the market without nonstop bad reviews, i guess its one of those has to be seen to be believed things.
We are talking here about “topping” off a Lead Acid battery that is just under being capable of turning over the engine.
A Lead Acid battery at 0% is ruined.
That is why it is a mistake to let the starter go into full stall when trying to start a car. All that does is drain the battery even more.
As soon as that happens, use this. It is your last chance. Drain the battery too low before using this and you’re not going to be successful.
Part of it could be how a lead acid battery charges, the idea of a surface charge. Almost dead to can start a car isn’t a big step, the battery just has no real reserve beyond a few seconds.
This bulb has been driving me CRAZY for months now. It’s a BIG LED bulb and was originally $80. Months ago it hit the “6” price and then the “3”. I would have thought it would have gone to a penny by now, in fact I have taken one up many many times over the last few months hoping………
Here it is, 300W replacement and boasting 3300 lumens. It does have a large, non standard base, so it would not simply screw into an Edison E37 socket. But who cares, I just want one to rip apart.
Here are some other deals going on.
This Makita bit set just hit the 3 price, 75% off
This is a bucket fan. I would call this a Red Neck airconditioner. Put it on a bucket of ice and blow chilled air around.
Was $100, but is now $40.04. They claim $100 but I know it was $79.95, that’s why the “4” price (50% off) is $40.04
When it hits $20.02, I’m in! This uses and includes a Ryobi compatible battery and charger.
I am seeing the Ridgid compressors at some HD’s at full price. Most stores are cleaned out at the $75.03 price
This same store has the floor jack and jack stand combo at full price.
AND
The “hearse” lady has a load of old stock.
Or is THAT what they do with anyone caught penny shopping :confounded:
I KNOW you have been interested in that bulb, you have been posting pictures as the price went down.
I am reposting YOUR pictures.
Now mine again….
Everyone should note the progression in the prices. It goes from full price, $79.97
To the “00” price of $59.00
Then the “6” price of $47.06
Then the “3” price of $20.03
