Heh. Though to be a pedant and a killjoy, I’m betting that particular light isn’t very bright. These things, especially older models, typically use something like a 50 W halogen bulb. That’ll be a fair bit brighter than, say, a 40 W incandescent with a lampshade, but that’s a bit short of “nuclear holocaust”.
The model I’ve got, the Philips HF3470, advertises 250 lux, but given its bulk I have to tuck it in a corner of my bedside table where a good chunk of its light is blocked. I’d like to get more light – maybe not the 10,000 lux standard light-therapy dose, but splitting the difference (geometrically) to get 1000-2000 lux.
I wonder if this would work for me , I am hard of hearing and have a hard time finding an alarm that wake me up . I need the Liberty bell in my bedroom to wake me up! LOL!
Mine is that one’s cheaper little brother. Except mine is opaque grey, not translucent green. I don’t use the alarm either. One small niggle is that it defaults to having the alarm enabled so when I reset it after a power cut I have to remember to disable the alarm.
Got one of those for my wife a few years ago. The kids managed to break the globe, and I figured it was a goner.
Then I looked at their website and found they sell replacement globes.
And the price wasn’t to crazy: $19.95.
So I added one to my basket and went to checkout.
Shipping was flat rate $20.
…to ship this overpriced piece of glass
…from Maryland to New Jersey
The total came to $41.15
Nope. Sorry. It will be tossed.
The funny thing is, if they charged $35 for the globe and $5 for shipping, I might have grumbled, but I would have ordered one. The $20 shipping was egregious.
