Led less heat more light. Uses 1/2 electricity of a CFL
New market = Pot in Colorado, Washington, and Oregon
Big problem at that time was the power supply. Power electronics wasn't cheap enough (or efficient enough) to make the miniature switching power supply that was required.
If the person who told me this was right (and I'm sure he knew what he was talking about), GE has been working on CFL since 1955 if not earlier.
Never liked CFLs and I’m stuck with a lot of them. Replaced many w/ LEDs and now have the ones I replaced.
Now that they’ve got the color corrected thay are superior in every way.
Designer styles are very expensive though.
One caveat.. Costco sells Feit LED bulbs. They can cause RF if mounted near a radio, ie. night stand w/ radio.
States so on the back of the pkg.
Have had good luck w/ Cree LEDs.
In space-constrained Japan, GE helped launched an indoor farm that grows lettuce 2.5 times faster than conventional outdoor agriculture, while cutting waste to just 10 percent (compared to upward of 50 percent outdoors) and water consumption to only 1 percent of conventional outdoor farming. The trick? LED lighting.
Sorry, I don't believe it. Senator McCain told me that only Mexicans can harvest lettuce. < /sarc>
I hated CFLs from the beginning, but in general love my LEDs. I have 3 CFLs left. One I barely use, one is the 150-watt one I want to replace, and one is an outside light that I will soon replace. Other than that all my new bulbs are either LEDs or a few halogens.
I can literally HEAR all the LED lights getting installed in our neighborhood in my amateur radio equipment. I had to rip every single one of 'em out of my house after my receive noise level jumped exponentially the very night she installed LED lights in our youngest son's bedroom, which is right underneath two of my wire antenna's.
Naturally the FCC is too busy trying to regulate the Internet than to actually DO something about RF Interference caused by LED Lights!
Could you re-size your post to make it bigger? Having a hard time seeing it.
Another problem with CFLs, they don’t last longer than incandescents. The ones I’ve used had considerably shorter lives than incandescents.
I noticed some LED street lights the other day. Apparently they are really taking off in that application. One of these days, only old timers will remember the orange-y look of sodium lights.
I’ll continue with incandescent for some years to come. I laid in a supply of about 1000 before they went extinct, with an assortment of wattages from 40W to 150W.
It’ll probably be years ‘til we switch. Met-Ed sent us a pile of CFLs and nightlights - to save energy, of course - and I’ve got a supply of incandescents laid in.
I’ve replaced florescent lighting in my basement/family room with LEDs. The light is better, it’s instant on, and cheaper than replacing florescent bulbs.
Led Lighting + Cheap/Clean Energy + Indoor/Vertical farming = Unlimited food supply for humanity.
Just need to get the fusion or other technology working and hunger will be a thing of the past.
The population bomb was as wrong as can be.
Also impacting sales are those of us who have a 10 - 20 year supply of traditional incandescent bulbs.
Sure wish I’s snagged more of the 3-way 30/70/100 watt bulbs!
I love LED lighting. I have now converted my entire house LEDs my power bill is down considerably next step is to get rid of that dang hot water heater. Once that is an on demand gas system I will ger in the solar. My house has $75 a month power, 35 a month with the hot water heater off.
Glad to chuck those old cfl mercury bulbs, dang things are dangerous.
I replaced virtually all my bulbs with LED’s, having skipped the CFL phase. I have a constant reminder of it right here as I type. My articulated desk lamp used to burn me when I adjusted it....now it is almost cold to the touch. Amazing.
OK, first, how does LED “clobber” CFL? Not by the pie charts shown.
(No, I have not read this whole thing. Just enough time to pop in, skim, and comment.)
CFLs are heartily annoying, although I don’t think they are “harsh” like LEDs can be. What am I missing? The LEDs my husband bought for the hallway are highly hospital-level white-blue brilliance annoying.
As for the CFLs, I hate how they are affected by the least little coolness. Those near the roof this season are very dim, and take some 15 min to seem full power. All CFLs never start purely bright. I also do not see how they pass muster with “lasts for years!” BS. If you’re willing to leave your lights on indefinitely, I guess so. But people turn off lights at bedtime, and during the day. So, not much saving there.
They're (sort of) dimmable. They dim quite well until half brightness, but then they flash at lower levels. That beats some CFLs I tried that also advertised dimmable. They had three levels: bright half-bright, and off. At least they didn't just sit there and buzz, like non dimmable ones. This is important to us, since all of our light switches have dimmers.