The best candle shaped 60watt energy saving bulbs?

Traffic_Warden · 13 Dec 2014 at 23:58

Is this a serious thread (reading OP)

just buy a bulb from tesco when one goes??????

delta0 · 14 Dec 2014 at 00:06

My place is completely led now. Paid for itself within a few months. The 40w equivalent led bulbs are as bright as 60w tungsten bulbs. All of them are warm bulbs.

Phil2008 · 14 Dec 2014 at 12:47

Traffic_Warden said:
Is this a serious thread (reading OP)

just buy a bulb from tesco when one goes??????

So you dont do energy saving? I dont really do it either, but the cost of electric is shocking nowaday and with burning 5 normal 60watt bulbs for 5-7 hours a day, it gets expensive.

delta0 said:
The 40w equivalent led bulbs are as bright as 60w tungsten bulbs. All of them are warm bulbs.

My old candle bulbs are 550lumens apparently and they are nowhere like 60watt equivalent.

Heres a pic of my light, I dont think it looks too bad, plus I can have the black sleeves on with these bulbs as the candle bulbs wont go far enough down to lock them in with the sleeves on.

Traffic_Warden · 14 Dec 2014 at 18:02

it's a light bulb, not a cooker or kettle, 40 watts is going to cost you probably 1 pence a day more to run per bulb

delta0 · 14 Dec 2014 at 20:37

Phil2008 said:
So you dont do energy saving? I dont really do it either, but the cost of electric is shocking nowaday and with burning 5 normal 60watt bulbs for 5-7 hours a day, it gets expensive.

My old candle bulbs are 550lumens apparently and they are nowhere like 60watt equivalent.

I only use candle bulbs in the cooker hood. For my normal room bulbs they have 6w 470lm LED bulbs that replaced the original 60w tungsten bulbs. I found the new bulbs as bright as the original. Perhaps this doesn't hold true for the candle types or it could be the reduced angle of light they produce which would limit the location they can be best used. Pointing straight up to the ceiling probably doesn't maximise light distribution.

Phil2008 · 14 Dec 2014 at 22:53

delta0 said:
Perhaps this doesn't hold true for the candle types or it could be the reduced angle of light they produce which would limit the location they can be best used. Pointing straight up to the ceiling probably doesn't maximise light distribution.

Yeah maybe but the old 60watt candle shaped incandescent bulb was much brighter then the 11w(60watt equivalent) CFL candle bulbs in my room.

Is it something todo with the size of the bulb, is that why manufactures cant produce a high brightness candle bulb, same with the golf ball size and the small screw fitting bulbs?

delta0 · 14 Dec 2014 at 23:09

Phil2008 said:
Yeah maybe but the old 60watt candle shaped incandescent bulb was much brighter then the 11w(60watt equivalent) CFL candle bulbs in my room.

Is it something todo with the size of the bulb, is that why manufactures cant produce a high brightness candle bulb, same with the golf ball size and the small screw fitting bulbs?

I think it is the angle of the light. With them pointing up it is significantly reducing the amount of light. My bathroom light is also LED and it is sideways mounted, you can definitely tell one side of the room is brighter than the other. Where I have candle bulbs they are LED filament types which are 360 degree angle. Most LED bulbs don't have 360 degree angle of light projection which makes ceiling mounted upwards facing bulbs more of an issue. It would also explain why my downward facing 40w equivalents seem as bright as my original 60w tungsten bulbs as the light is a bit more focused down into the room.

Phil2008 · 14 Dec 2014 at 23:40

delta0 said:
I think it is the angle of the light. With them pointing up it is significantly reducing the amount of light. My bathroom light is also LED and it is sideways mounted, you can definitely tell one side of the room is brighter than the other. Where I have candle bulbs they are LED filament types which are 360 degree angle. Most LED bulbs don't have 360 degree angle of light projection which makes ceiling mounted upwards facing bulbs more of an issue. It would also explain why my downward facing 40w equivalents seem as bright as my original 60w tungsten bulbs as the light is a bit more focused down into the room.

Yeah Im amazed that my new bulbs shine the light downwards as well as they do, but that was the widest angle light bulb I could find.(site says 195, but actual bulb box says 240) Any idea why they have those ugly plastic collars around the bottom of the bulbs, because some bulbs like this one, the collar covers up 50%+ of the bulb?........ http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lumens-Bayo...=UTF8&qid=1418601001&sr=8-6&keywords=led+bulb Whats that all about :eek: