You’re right to be fair, a lot of them do retain that shape for purely aesthetic reasons, but it’s not a functional part of the light source any longer.
I mean, they are just small diodes inside, if they have a bulb shape it’s just some plastic to have it be a familiar shape. I’d even argue most new light fixtures these days come in all sorts of shapes, and in my home, for example, I don’t even have a bulb shape.
When you buy a lightbulb (at least here in the UK) it almost always still has the incandescent-equivalent on it as well as the actual wattage.
People are still used to thinking in old terms that you want 100W for a ceiling lamp and 60W for a table lamp, for example.
So this light in the fridge could be 200W equivalent but not actually 200W consumption.
Thinking about it, lightbulb itself is at this point a ridiculously achronistic term, there’s nothing really ‘bulb’ about them anymore.
how so? They’re still bulb shaped most the time.
You’re right to be fair, a lot of them do retain that shape for purely aesthetic reasons, but it’s not a functional part of the light source any longer.
It’s functional in so far that it does protect the LED elements and makes the device better to handle.
I mean, they are just small diodes inside, if they have a bulb shape it’s just some plastic to have it be a familiar shape. I’d even argue most new light fixtures these days come in all sorts of shapes, and in my home, for example, I don’t even have a bulb shape.