Hear me out, but I think youre being a little hard on the dollar store bulbs. Yeah, theyre cheap, but sometimes you just need a bulb to work for a few months in a closet or a garage, not a decade. If I get six months out of a dollar bulb, thats a win in my book.

@barbaraschmidt totally nailed it. My first trellis was just a few scrap 2x4s and some old netting, and it held up better than the expensive metal one I bought the next year. Still the ugliest thing in my yard but it keeps producing!

Don't expect everyone to sit through a lecture on translunar injection burns at a backyard BBQ" - dude, speak for yourself, that's the kind of party I actually want to be at instead of hearing about Karen's gluten-free sourdough starter. But yeah, you're basically saying I traded one crazy obsession for another, which I guess is fair. At least this one has numbers you can check instead of "look at this shadow, it must be a studio light." I'm not trying to give lectures, just saying it clicked for me when I did the math myself. If that makes me a nerd, fine, I'll take that over thinking Stanley Kubrick directed astronauts.

Heard a guy at the hackerspace say the same thing last week, he runs his iron at 500F for lead-free and swears his joints look way cleaner now.

yeah but like... has anyone checked if their furnace is actually running more or if the gas company just bumped up rates that month? my bill went up and i was blaming my thermostat too but turns out they raised prices like 15% right when i got the new one