Anyone using LED home lighting replacement bulbs?

I bought LED bulbs for my outside porch lights which I like to burn all night long, every night. I was very disappointed. The bulbs were more expensive, a bit taller than the regular bulbs causing shadows and in my opinion not as bright. I switched back to 3 incandescent bulbs in each fixture. My porch was again bright and no shadows.

 

yup!

 

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Because, an LED rated at 800 lumen doesn't produce the same ammount of light as the 60watt tungsten bulb. All you have to do is get both, and AB them. Very simple test, and very easy to see the differences in light quality, and color. Especially in large rooms.
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The reason for the frosted lens is to stop the "spot light" effect.
All of the light from an LED comes from the center.

 

Re: Anyone using LED home lighting replacement bulbs?

Nope!
CFLs taught me a nasty lesson in being an early adopter.
I still use them in almost all of my fixtures, even though they go TANGO-UNIFORM much more frequently than their manufacturers will admit. The old fashioned MK-1, Mod-0 incandescent bulbs in my dimmed fixtures outlast my CFLs by a wiiiide margin, and they're cheaper to boot…at least up front.
I'm going to wait a while for the LED bulbs to be more economical before I begin to use them. Some of the big box stores are starting to sell them, and I know that longevity will (might!) not be much of an issue, but I like to use 26W CFLs in my single bulb fixtures, and the last time I looked, LED replacements just aren't a viable replacement.....yet.
My electrical bill is always less than a hundred bucks---in an all-electric home, less 3 outside fixtures that aren’t metered.
I’ll wait some more.
YMMV….

 

A lack of truth in advertising. What did I win?

 

26W CFL??? I'd go crazy with that bright of a light. I have nothing that exceeds a 60W equivalent, except the exterior LED flood above my steps that's 75W equivalent.

The only other LEDs I have in my house are flood light ones in my dining room, kitchen, and hallway. The rest of my bulbs are CFL, except oven & freezer. Most of my CFLs I've had for the 5+ years in this house, and some came with me from my Condo. I rarely turn lights on, and most of the time it's only for a couple minutes except the kitchen light and stove light. I'll convert more to LED as I run out of CFL, but at this rate, it might be 10 more years lol

 

I'm using the Phillips LED bulbs. Those are the yellow ones that are white when on. They also have those with a white exterior for lower wattage. So far those have been first rate, but I have to see them work for about a decade before I get my return on them.

Good Points:
1) Instant On
2) Nice color balance - One of my favorite aspects of this bulb
3) No noise or hum at all
4) Actual power measurements match label - Made measurable difference in power bill.
5) Will not cause serious burns if baby grabs lit bulb.
6) Very hard to break - No glass or mercury

Bad points:
1) Expensive in up front cost
2) The higher power version are not "pretty".
3) Made in China - Hard to avoid and not a real problem if QA enforced by Phillips
4) Can not vouch for service life, but no problems so far.

 

When did the energy hog (even by incandescent standards) GE Reveal become the 'normal' lamp? My reference was always the GE Soft White, this one at 820 lumens. Other references give 800 lumens and (do the calculation as 60W * 14.5 l/w = ) 870 lumens, from wikipedia (follow the footnote reference).

 

.62 ea is a great price! The over 500.00 I blew on LED's could've stocked me for life! hummm... There are some great deals on Tungsten and CFL bulbs right now. I've been buying them up when I find them cheap. At this stage of the game I'm too old to stress over weak unreliable LED lighting, and rediculous prices.
Energy savings? I don't feel like waiting 20yrs to balance out the LED costs. Ok I'm done ranting now!

 

I refer to the radiation in the visible spectra, corrected for human eye sensitivity to the different wavelenths.

 

$0.62 to buy a tungsten bulb is horrible when it costs me an additional $8.00 to just turn it on. In fact, free tungsten bulbs are still too expensive when cheap CFLs that live no longer than tungsten cost less than $1 to buy and $2 to turn on.

I'm just starting the transition from CFLs to LEDs, so haven't yet had time to see failures of the latter. But I haven't purchased any 100W tungstens since 1989, and no non-specialty tungstens of any wattage this century.

 

At this point I don't care about the power costs, I care more about quality lighting+color that works everytime I turn it on. The LED battle was enough! The electric bill here is always under 80.00 and this house is all electric. The lights never run long here. I was mainly looking for a solution for the recessed lighting. The CFL floods do stick out further than the halogens which isn't the better look, and all of the 3.75" LED floods looked like cheap plastic shower heads (eck).

 

FWIW I was at HD today and they have "40W replacement" LEDS rated at either 425 or 625 lumens--I think 425. I recall they were $8. I think they had the faux cover to look like a normal incandescent. Ah here it was: A19 8.6-Watt (40W) LED Light Bulb-ECS 19 WW 120 at The Home Depot I have a storage room I'm somewhat motivated to have a light in 24/7. I can do it with that bulb for 75 cents/month and it says 46 years at 3 hours/day, which is 5 years, 9 months on all the time. I find that hard to believe and know it's an estimate, but still... Course, the most recent reviews a lot of people report the bulbs literally burning out within minutes...

I do only buy LED for my Christmas lights, starting a year back. They don't look as good, kind of more glittery, but incandescent Xmas lights burn out soooooo often.

 

They do sell the flood LEDs, enclosed with trim-ring attached for the 4" recessed cans. I'm not sure exactly when they started offering them, but they've had the ones for 6" cans since at least a year ago.

 

How much light does this storage room need? I have a couple FEIT 1.1 watt units on timers in places where I want some light, but don't need to read. (I can read with them, but turn on another lamp when reading for extended periods.) These cost about $7 at my regional WMT, and would use less than $0.10 / month on your 24/7 schedule. Mine is on only 6 hours per day, but the timer itself probably adds another watt.

 

I think wiring has a lot to do with bulb life, too. I know someone that goes through CFLs in a matter of months, no matter what they put in it. I think they're getting issues with the current more than anything. That may be a similar issue for LED bulbs, too.

Even if a bulb burns out that fast, they're still under a 30 day return policy (Home Depot, Lowes, etc) and most of the ones I purchased are backed by a 5 year (maybe 10) limited warranty from the manufacturer. I'm not going to go out and just start replacing CFLs with LEDs, but as I run out of CFLs I will begin the switch. I may never run out of CFLs, though, considering how many I still somehow have left despite giving away at least 10 bulbs.

 

Doesn't need much light at all! How much are those Feits? Walmart.com won't show me a price.

 

I just started replacing some bulbs with LEDs. There are a lot of places where I don't really feel totally comfortable with putting in a CFL (lamps that might get knocked over or hit) where LEDs are perfect. My recent experience indicates that the killer app for LED bulbs is desk lamps (like the one my father likes to use when reading the newspaper) where the enclosure would get hot enough to burn you using an incandescent. Those now run cold (and are safer as a result).

 

Price varies. Put in a zip code, and it may come up with a price -- $6.97 at the store nearest me.

The shelves had a several different models with varying shapes, covers, and powers.

 

When I flip a light switch I want to be able to see clearly. I buy the CFL 100 watt light bulbs for most of my fixtures. Since most of my fixtures have more than one light bulb that really puts some light on the subject. The lamp over the dinner table has 6 bulbs... Now that is some light.