LED for the Home

[sebjsan]

My Incandacent light burnt out yesterday and i have been chaning them to flourecent, but now with the LED technology i was very interested in these You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login for my home. Has anyone else tried these or can you suggest an alternate option.

[trekster]

I ordered some of these.  I have a bathroom fixture that takes 5 lights above the mirror. (also a light in the ceiling)  I replaced the 5 lights with ones like this.  They are cheap in price and free shipping is about 2-3 week from china.

They give off good light with 5!

Ron

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[randyy]

I have a few LED bulbs, but not the exact one you show.  They're plenty bright enough, instant-on and dim well (unlike CFLs), and have good color.  Now if prices could just come down...

[rdebolt]

I have a few around my house. The ones in my kitchen are recessed can style and the only problem that I have is once in a while one of them will start to flicker. Drives me crazy. If I turn them off for a while the flicker will be gone. The problem is that it is not just one light that will flicker. They seem to like to change from one to another and it does not happen that often.

[Ron]

I thought the US was E26 base, did the E27 work for you? 

Not that I have any experience with it, but I'm interested to find out.

Ron

[trekster]

I thought the US was E26 base, did the E27 work for you? 

Not that I have any experience with it, but I'm interested to find out.

Ron

26 or 27 what ever it takes. (Mr Mom)  I went back to my Ebay history and the ones I ordered were E-27.  I have no idea what the difference is between E26 and E27?

Ron

[chrisatpsu]

the E26, and E27 are off by one mm. if you have a loose enough socket, it would fit fine.

my Electric company had a program where if you filled out their energy use survey, they will send you a package of different types of CFL bulbs.  even dimmable ones!.   

I just wish they would send LED bulbs, and christmas strings   : )

[tbone321]

That's because CFL's are old tech and cheap.  Not the case with LED's

[rm357]

Both lowes and home depot have a new generation of led light bulbs. They run in the $20 range, but put out more light than a 60 watt Incan. Rated for 800+ lumens with a more even light distribution, but they look strange... Kind of like a plastic disk on top of the heat sink.

RM

[rimist]

Both lowes and home depot have a new generation of led light bulbs. They run in the $20 range, but put out more light than a 60 watt Incan. Rated for 800+ lumens with a more even light distribution, but they look strange... Kind of like a plastic disk on top of the heat sink.

RM

wish they came in candelabra base

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[therealbigjim]

I got some warm white led bulbs from Sam's. They were $10 a two pack. I bought 3 packs and use them on my garage out door lighting. There on an eye and burn from dusk till dawn and cost about .25 cents a month for 5 to run about 11 hours a day.  I like the warm white color. A neighbor installed a LED security light form Lowes and the cold white light is harsh in my opinion.

[sebjsan]

@ Ron- Do you know what the wattage output is on those compared to an incandescent?

[wwwgator]

One thing I have noticed, when most people switched to CFL's, most service calls I got were that they worked intermittantly in ceiling "can" lights- What was happening was the bult-in thermal overload was cutting out due to excessive heat generated by the intenal ballast. I'm curious to see how much heat the floods/par  LED lamps give off.
Ive seen the heat sinks on some of these lamps and may soon have a flurry of new service calls......good  for the pocket book, but would rather have a consistant, non annoying, flicker free light.

for what its worth....

[rimist]

I don't like the warm white, as it tinges everything yellow. I prefer the bulbs that imitate daylight, with cold white coming in second. Strangely enough I find the cold white is less painful on my migraines than the yellow soft white

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[wwwgator]

Agreed, what you would be looking for is color temperature.
Cool White is around 28K
warmwhite is roughly 35K- mostly used in offices
In the printing industry, I've installed 50K to accurately reproduce colors on printed page
In Broadcasting, we usually use filters in the camera body to keep things around 56K, which in considered to be sunlight.
We also shade cameras electronically  to make up what we cant achive through filters.