Posted on 12/15/2011 12:17:16 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Yes indeed, we are twelve miles east of Zion. I’m just making the point that our small museum has converted to LED’s and we are very happy about it after seeking the proper ones for artwork.
We are now saving $200 monthly with the product. It will pay for itself in six months.
Hesitated to say much initially because certain folks were attacking me recently about their perceived notion regarding incandescent issues.
Philips does some good stuff.
Hey we are gonna have some good basketball down here,....and baseball too!
If you were right then many manufacturers of LED TVs will be very surprised that their screens cannot produce anything but blue white light.
These lights I am looking at right now look exactly like the old incandescent but I gather there is no convincing you.
These WARM LEDs (as they were advertised) made a very good match to an incandescent lamp.
It would be a slam dunk to manufacture a normal size 40/60/100 watt bulb with not only a perfect match to incandescent color temperature but make that bulb display any color desired.
It is a vastly superior technology to the good ole energy hog incandescent. They had their day and did very well for many years but it is time to move on.
Remember we have an administration that wants energy prices to skyrocket and many morons voted for him so saving many watts on lighting will help all of us.
Which is why I said for general lighting. For directional or specialty lighting, its a no-brainer. I am actually an LED Hobbyist, continually trying out LEDS and LED strips in various places (automotive, household). I've just started playing with the high wattage type of LED's (1-3 watt emitters), those things are amazing.
You are so articulate....Merry Christmas back at you.
Our flashlight has almost pure white light too, and the battery life is unbelievable. My wife said she recharged the flashlight back in late spring, so my claim of the original charge is wrong.
You can get LEDs with a lower color temperature that will look more like an incandescent lamp. Look for ~3000K color temp LEDs.
I first took the plunge and replaced all my lights with LEDs and CFLs about two months ago. Not to be politically correct, but the geek in me likes them.
My criteria is, under no circumstances will I pay more than $10 for a lightbulb. The 100 watt equivalents are CFLs and frankly, as bright as ... 100 watt bulbs. Those are now (well) below $10.
I understand as what might be called an “early adopter” (or you might think, sell-out) I’m paying too much even at less than $10, but they are more energy efficient.
Since I don’t have someone paying my power bill for me, why not?
Now ... answering my own rhetorical question “why not”, the very first LED bulbs I installed (two) are less than 200 lumens. For reference a 100 watt incandescent is 1500 lumens.
They’re remarkably so cool running, even when on, there is almost no heat, one can simply unscrew the bulb and replace it. Virtually room temp. The shape is similar to an incandescent, but the lower third is some sort of polymer, shaped like the bottom of an incandescent.
And not blue. Actually I can’t tell the color difference.
Those first two however are not really a lot brighter than a candle.
I have one over my stove, another in a small table lamp next to my computer where the light isn’t distracting. For their uses they’re fine for now.
In the two months since, the market has evidently begun to work. Yesterday I stopped by a hardware store for a bit of lumber, and noticed my $10 price point had been hit by a new round of brighter LED bulbs. This one is just over 400 lumens. Approximately equivalent to an old 40 watt.
This one has a different design. Same pear shape as an incandescent, or those first ‘dim bulbs’, but this one has a sort of fluted texture on that lower half. Ribbed horizontally in such a way as to provide a grip when installing/removing. It’s actually rather heavy.
That lower portion is almost a ceramic. And this brighter one now actually emits some heat. I think maybe it’s not a highly efficient LED somehow. It’s possible to remove in when on, but a bit warm to be really comfortable doing so.
It’s not blue either.
I’ve been pleased with the LEDs so far. I’ll probably lower my ‘price point’ now to $5 before I upgrade to any brighter new offerings.
The market is working pretty quickly on these though, IMHO.
And they do use less electricity.
Unless one owns utility stock, that seems like a good thing to me.
When they have LED bulbs that give off as much light as a 200 or 300 watt incandescent AND work in dimmer switches, AND cost under $4, AND provide the same slightly yellowish light as an inefficient incandescent, I will probably buy them. Until then, I have about a 2-3 year supply of lightbulbs to use up.
My son put in an LED for the front entrance light. It was expensive, $25. But, we did the calculations, and over the listed lifespan of the LED light, vs how often incandescent lights burn out, and energy consumption, we will be ahead in a few years.
The other thing we like is the amount of light put off by this one light bulb. The whole walkway is light up, clear, like daylight.
I think we replaced all of our Christmas lights over the last two years. The ability to string up multiple light strands to a single outlet is compelling too.
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