LED Bulb Thread

Colbaker

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Hi all,

Just thought i would share my LED bulb story.

In my kitchen i have 2 4 way light fixtures that used to have halogen bulbs in, I recently got an Electricity monitor and to my utter astonishment found that these lights were pulling 480watts :O, I thought "no way hoe-say", Popped to B&Q got 9 GU10 LED bulbs for under £20 installed them and now i have not seen the lights pulling more than 30 watts and they are brighter.

Am gonna go LED bulbs throughout the house especially as the darkness is closing in, Only issue is Bayonet LED's are not as easy to source. Why bother with stupid energy saving bulbs that take ages to get to their full brightness which is still dismal

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"I know, cool story bro!"
 
How much brighter would you say these are than the energy saving bulbs (none LED), because i have these in my house and they are utter pants... Its like sitting in a room lit by a candle.
 
Funnily enough, I started a testimony thread just a year back and got no responses. Good to know that they're picking up now.

My original post:

Monserrat said:
This type of thread crops up from time to time on here. Some pro-CFL, some anti-CFL, threads debating the banning of frosted tungsten bulbs and so on.

I was one who never embraced CFLs as I didn't like their colour temps. Also, being partially sighted, I see better in tungsten lighting, sharper definition, shadows present etc. And so I stuck with tungstens inside the house, and went straight to LED with disco lights, some 5 years ago. Unfortunately, LED remains priced outside consumer pricing range in the domestic market, although it is dropping and LED bulbs are beginning to become available in hardware stores.

Given that I know that LED already works well with disco lights, as they can tune into any colour and have half the wattage for equivalent CFL output, I agreed that domestic lights should have taken LED technology on board earlier, skipping the CFL generation entirely.

Anyway, I took the plunge with buying my first domestic LED fixture from a local DIY shop, the most expensive one available at that store at the time. It comprises of four 3-LED clusters, rated at 2.5W each or 7.5W per cluster or 30W in total. Their output is equivalent to 4 halogen spots, have the warm tungsten colour, and you can actually see shadows again unlike under CFL lighting condition. I cannot stress how much better LEDs are over CFLs. IMO, LED should have surfaced 5 years ago: it worked perfectly fine with disco lights in 2006, so why take so long for a bog standard kitchen?

I do hope that the nation jumps onto the bandwagon. CFLs drive me nuts lol.

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kierenharrold said:
How much brighter would you say these are than the energy saving bulbs (none LED), because i have these in my house and they are utter pants... Its like sitting in a room lit by a candle.
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you've obviously bought the wrong ones..

their are some really poor LED lights out there.. The ones ive bought are just as good as halogen
 
Going to have to get some of these for my kitchen as the 50watt Osram bulbs haven't even lasted a year. Plus being 50 watt each that's 200 watt just to light one area of the kitchen.

C.R.A.Z.Y said:
These are the ones I bought: (Link embedded in photo)
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Which colour temp did you go with?
 
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