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Welcome! This is where you can find my experiments and findings on things that I dabble in. As of this point, this incudes LED's, solar heating, solar power, and gardening.
May 27, 2008: received LED Fluorescent replacements - big, bright and a lot of light ,Link
March 3, 2008: added the Mini GrowLight - using off the shelf parts and just a little solder and epoxy. The tomato plant liked it, let's see if the basil feels the same way...
 
AND - our new site http://www.gardenhacker.com will be supplanting my garden dabblings, as it's become more of an obsession than a dabbling. Please drop by and check it out in it's infancy.
LED Area Lights has some very unscientific pictures and links available. An LED light that would be comparable to a 20W bulb is available for about $6.00US, others available for more money. Since the Luxeon LED's are becoming more affordable, I'm sure we'll see more "screw in" varieties available. Even though most of our lights at home are now flourescent, taking them to the next level would mean additional savings.
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Updated 2008-05-27
Received new LED Area Lights Link 
LED Grow Lights Continue to Shine Link 
Updates as of 2007-04-17LED grow lights and Compact Fluorescent Bulbs. You can find LED grow lights online for upwards of $150.00!! For that amount of money, you get very little coverage. "LED-PlantBar general growth coverage 1ft. x 2ft. Area @ 12in. - 18in. Distance (plant-to-light)".
At 12" from the target, I'm getting 8.5" circle of light - that's with ONE LED array. Plans are for three: two Red LED arrays and one blue LED array. After my initial look, I'm probably going to modify the blue array a bit by angling the LED's. Continue to LED Grow Lights
Compact Fluorescent(CFL)Bulbs are getting a lot of press, and I've been using them in one form or another for about 15 years. I worked under contract at GE at one point, and bought one of their CFLs for $12 in 1991. It's still working! (continue to CFL's page)
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Gardening is my other Dabbling passion. Especially in midwinter, I become restless and want to see some green growing! As spring arrives, I'm out in the garden before our May 30 "no frost" date, putting up the row covers and getting the cool weather crops in place.Continue to Gardening
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Ex-patriot of LambdaMoo - Trunk, aka Trunksamsonite was a little busy for several years, and his character got reaped. When I got back, someone else fancied my name at least and is currently using it. So, I'm off to richer environs...
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2005, 2006 by Andrew Perkins
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