If you paid for a regular light bulb as much as you pay for a car light
bulb and use it as little then you should expect similar life from it.
 Even in cars with daytime running lights the lights are not on for more
than an hour or two every day (on average).  1,000 hours is a long time
if you only use one per day.

-Adam

Jinx wrote:

>>How about this for a whacko idea, rectify lighting
>>circuit to DC in the switchboard, then use a PIC
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>I'll reply to this later but here's something I just thought of -
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>Probably the most common users of high wattage DC
>bulbs would be vehicles. Are there any comparable stats
>for car lights blowing in same way that we seem to
>have experience for mains bulbs ? As I ride around it
>appears to me that almost all cars have a full set of lights
>yet I know plenty of people that are forever changing
>house bulbs
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>Don't know if that's just a "so what ?" question. So what
>if it is ? ;-)
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