LED Lightbulbs (Page 2): I have never understood why architects design homes with lights in places where they cannot be replaced without hiring acrobats and renting scaffolding! Thank...

sb Loc: Florida's East Coast

I have never understood why architects design homes with lights in places where they cannot be replaced without hiring acrobats and renting scaffolding! Thank goodness for the new LED bulbs - only have to hire the acrobats one more time now!

hj Loc: Florida

Replaced all of our incandescents with LED bulbs and found the 40w bulbs are much brighter than our previous 60w. Love the fact you can handle the bulb without burning your fingers even after they've been on a long time. Since they use a fraction of electricity, we have started leaving the lights on all night outside on either side of the over-head garage door. Just feel it gives us more security than the house sitting in the blackness of night. Our neighbors do the same.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Longshadow wrote:

Does a "60W" LED replacement have the same lumens that a 60W incandescent puts out? Most 60W CFLs put out lower lumens, which I dislike.

These look much brighter and whiter ("soft white") to me, as compared with the CFL's.

Julian Loc: Sarasota, FL

I enjoy the ambience created by the use of LED bulbs. I have the installed almost in every room in my house. I particularly like the daylight LEDs in certain areas as they impart the feeling of outdoor, open space.

I have done some time lapse flower photography and found the daylight bulbs perfect for the task as they can actually allow flowers to bloom in an inside, controlled environment. The color temperature, as measured with a Gossen Colorimeter, is exactly 5300K which remains constant as the intensity is adjusted with a standard dimmer switch. The best part: they generate very little heat. Macro photographers, take notice!

lARRY1 Loc: southern nc

jerryc41 wrote:

I've replaced most of the bulbs in my house with LED's, and I'm pleased with the results. They are brighter than the fluorescents they replaced, and they'll probably outlast me. Amazon had a pack of six for $31, so I got two. Two days later, the price had risen to $43. Good timing on my part.

These bulbs use only 9.9W, compared with 23W for the CFL's. Have any of you gone 100% LED?

Jerry, went to dollar tree yesterday and got 60w LED bulbs for $1.00 apiece. Last 22.8 years and use 8.8w. Called LED for life bulbs.

tmehrkam Loc: Houston,Tx

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Philips-60W-Equivalent-Soft-White-A19-LED-Light-Bulb-2-Pack-455576/205815532

$4.95 for two. Good color and plenty bright. The Jury is still out on life.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

lARRY1 wrote:

Jerry, went to dollar tree yesterday and got 60w LED bulbs for $1.00 apiece. Last 22.8 years and use 8.8w. Called LED for life bulbs.

Sounds goo. The ones I got will also last for 22.8 years. Interesting figure.

Hacksaw Loc: Pacific Northwest

I get my LED light bulbs from Costco. I've found them to be much cheaper than any other local store (except maybe the Dollar Store which I'm wary about...).

docerz

I've replaced all 200 "cans" in my house. 65W replacement Feit brand from Costco. I think they use about 13.5 watts. I've done it over about a years time. No failures yet. Needless to say I've noticed a significant decrease in my electric bill. I think the $10 buck a bulb investment will show a quick ROI

Cykdelic Loc: Now outside of Chiraq & Santa Fe, NM

jerryc41 wrote:

I've replaced most of the bulbs in my house with LED's, and I'm pleased with the results. They are brighter than the fluorescents they replaced, and they'll probably outlast me. Amazon had a pack of six for $31, so I got two. Two days later, the price had risen to $43. Good timing on my part.

These bulbs use only 9.9W, compared with 23W for the CFL's. Have any of you gone 100% LED?

Good move, jerry.

We have gone Entirely LED using CREE bulbs (they have a great selection and have both warm and cold). I have found them to be much more vibrant and clear than cloth cfl and incandescent.

lARRY1 Loc: southern nc

Hacksaw wrote:

I get my LED light bulbs from Costco. I've found them to be much cheaper than any other local store (except maybe the Dollar Store which I'm wary about...).

Bought mine at dollar tree, also sold at home depot,lowes', costco,amazon, staples. Made by company called Globe -Electric. Made in Canada. Same bulb in all stores.http://www.globe-electric.com/

CaptainBobBrown

We built our house in Hawaii 5.5 years ago and outfitted it with LED fixtures (and a few CFL's at the time) and now run only LED's. Hawaii has highest electricity prices in country to we also went NET metering with a 5 kW photo voltaic array on roof. At the time we built our "new construction LED spots" cost about $70 each and we bought 63. Since then we replaced 7 CFL's with brighter new "after construction" LED's for less than one of our origiinal fixtures. Our monthly electric cost is $20 for NET metering connection and we give back to HELCO credit for our surplus production at the end of each contract year. Total annual cost for electricity is thus $240.

balticvid Loc: Queens now NJ

Now their are bulbs that last longer.
They go to full brightness instantly.
Some can be used in a dimmable fixture.

They have these at Batteries Plus.

JPL

jerryc41 wrote:

I've replaced most of the bulbs in my house with LED's, and I'm pleased with the results. They are brighter than the fluorescents they replaced, and they'll probably outlast me. Amazon had a pack of six for $31, so I got two. Two days later, the price had risen to $43. Good timing on my part.

These bulbs use only 9.9W, compared with 23W for the CFL's. Have any of you gone 100% LED?

Yes, long time ago. Have bought nothing else for 2-3 years now to light up my home.

JPL

sb wrote:

I have never understood why architects design homes with lights in places where they cannot be replaced without hiring acrobats and renting scaffolding! Thank goodness for the new LED bulbs - only have to hire the acrobats one more time now!

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