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To: DownInFlames
Saw at Lowes a LED flood light going for $56.00 and it was on sale.

And a year ago you probably would not have seen an LED flood light at any price. Like lots of semiconductor-based items, the price has been going down for years. The brightness has been going up, too. A few years back, LED flashlights were mostly novelty and could not compete with Maglite-type flashlights. Now they are very bright and dominate the flashlight area.

Amazon has a 630 Lumen (50 watt equivalent) floodlight bulb for $22.50

Within a year, that LED floodlight will be more like $12, and within three years it will be $4. Even at the current price, it starts being attractive for locations where old-farts like me have to get up on tall ladders to get to.

55 posted on 06/02/2011 7:33:35 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("It is only when we've lost everything, that we are free to do anything" -- Fight Club)
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To: PapaBear3625

Typical for product life cycle.


56 posted on 06/02/2011 7:39:21 AM PDT by DownInFlames
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