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To: george76
Buy the cheapest, no-name bargain LED lamps, and yes they won't last.

I resisted the curly fluorescent bulbs for the mercury-containing ecologic disasters they were, but today's LEDs, if you bother to move up just a bit on the quality scale, do last for thousands of hours, give off warm white light if that's what you want (I don't, I prefer daylight white) and cost much, much less to run.

The only location in my home that still uses incandescent bulbs is my oven.

51 posted on 10/19/2023 5:03:01 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: Yo-Yo
...but today's LEDs, if you bother to move up just a bit on the quality scale, do last for thousands of hours...

Back in 2015 I replaced every incandescent in my house with LEDs. First, I noticed a decent drop in my electric bills and I was able to customize every location with the color of light I liked.

Last week I had to replace a hallway light. The first one since the 2015 installation.

The nicest thing was our yard light. It uses three of the candelabra bulbs with the small base. I have had this house for 30 years now (bought it new) and those three bulbs would burn out in three months or so, the longest at four months.

I am an EE and have all the testing equipment and I checked everything I could think of in the circuit to no avail. Since I put three LED bulbs in that yard light in 2015 I have had to replace them once, in 2021. Six years instead of three or four months and I have much more light in my yard now.

121 posted on 10/19/2023 8:14:24 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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