BoilerButtSlut t1_izpvade wrote
Reply to comment by New-Difference9684 in What makes one product cheap junk that breaks in a week and another that lasts a lifetime? by SirCheeseAlot
No company made a century bulb. That was never a thing.
What you see are regular bulbs that the owner runs at really low voltage which makes the filament not burn out. They barely put out the same amount of light as a candle.
You can do the same thing with modern incandescents.
New-Difference9684 t1_izq4i87 wrote
Ignorance is not a substitute for facts
BoilerButtSlut t1_izq7aax wrote
I know all about it.
It has lasted this long because they have a 60W (or whatever) bulb running at 4W. You can do that just as easily with any new incandescent and also make it last hundreds of years. It will just be barely as bright as a candle just like the centennial light is.
The carbon filament garbage the article talks about has nothing to do with it.
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