Anyone else hate the new light bulbs?

[ultrarunner]

:confused2: LEDs brighten faster than incandescents.

I have one of the costco LED bulbs in a lamp in the livingroom.

It has never come up faster than any incandesent... and this goes for all the lamps in the bubble pack I bought serveral years ago.

Now the CREE LED lamps I bought last week do not have this problem.

 

[charlz]

I stopped by Home Depot today.... that CREE 60w LED bulb is $12.97. Just down the row they had a 'Truck Load Special!' Box of (16) Phillips 60w soft white incandescents for $4.88....... Guess which one I bought

 

[k0ua]

I stopped by Home Depot today.... that CREE 60w LED bulb is $12.97. Just down the row they had a 'Truck Load Special!' Box of (16) Phillips 60w soft white incandescents for $4.88....... Guess which one I bought

I will guarantee you that box of 16 incandescent will last a heck of a lot longer than that LED.. but there is the little matter of energy consumption. I think LED's are the way we are going to go, and I just hope they are nearing perfection, and hopefully the price will soon drop to something more reasonable.

 

[sixdogs]

So if a new style bulb is a "60 watt equivalent" does that mean it puts out the same light as a 60 watt incandescent bulb? If so, who can see with that?

 

[dave1949]

So if a new style bulb is a "60 watt equivalent" does that mean it puts out the same light as a 60 watt incandescent bulb? If so, who can see with that?

People who eat their carrots. Been to the eye doc lately?

 

[k0ua]

So if a new style bulb is a "60 watt equivalent" does that mean it puts out the same light as a 60 watt incandescent bulb? If so, who can see with that?

Well you do have a point, but they typically go into fixtures with multiple sockets. Usually 3 or 4 like a ceiling lamp.

 

[sixdogs]

Well you do have a point, but they typically go into fixtures with multiple sockets. Usually 3 or 4 like a ceiling lamp.

No offense, but I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to live in a dim light. I understand and can accept the premise, but if I put four lights in to equal the light of one old one and the new ones use one quarter of the energy of the old ones how is this much of a savings? Tell me where I'm wrong.

 

[California]

My CREE 60w equivalent, 9.5 watt actual, is in the hall. It's just right for that location. It would also be ideal for a front or back porch light. These are not only suitable locations for its light output, these are also fixtures that will be left on for days at a time when we are out of town - so the energy cost savings is material. (Actually I have inferior Hong Kong LED's from Ebay in the outdoor locations presently, until they quit).

You need to match light output to the application. Seems to me that circular 22 watt fluorescents or 4 ft fluorescents are the next steps up in economical lighting at reasonable cost, after these 60/9.5w CREE's.

 

[k0ua]

No offense, but I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to live in a dim light. I understand and can accept the premise, but if I put four lights in to equal the light of one old one and the new ones use one quarter of the energy of the old ones how is this much of a savings? Tell me where I'm wrong.

The idea is that an LED lamp would use about 9.5 actual watts of power to put out an equivalent amount of light of a 60 watt incandescent bulb. So if you had a fixture with 4 of them you would have and equivalent of 240 Watts of light while only consuming 38 actual watts of power. So a considerable savings over a period of time. in energy usage. to help offset the considerable amount of money you had to come up with to purchase the things in the first place. Don't worry , I have my reservations about all of this also. Like will the dang bulbs last long enough to actually pay off in the end or "pop" they go in the first week, and you just flushed $15 each down the trash can. That is the risk you are taking.

 

[ultrarunner]

So if a new style bulb is a "60 watt equivalent" does that mean it puts out the same light as a 60 watt incandescent bulb? If so, who can see with that?

My 9.5 watt (sixty watt equivilent) Cree LED puts out 800 lumens and is rated for 8,322 hours.

My 75 watt GE Incandesent Full Spectrum bulb puts out 860 lumens and is rated for 1500 hours.

Both are dimmable.

Both are lead free.

My GE is made in China

My Cree is assembled in USA

We still have a drafting table and the drafting table lamp uses a single 60 watt incandesent bulb... no problems seeing.

My 15 watt (60 watt equivilent) CFL contains lead and is not dimmable... and from my experience does not live up to long life claims and is made in China.

If the new LED deliver I think they will take over in time.