LED Bulb Thread

Can anyone give me some recommendations for GU10s?
I've had my bathroom and kitchen both redone with LED GU10s, theyre all in cold white which i love.
Only trouble is in my small bathroom theres 4 downlights, one is the low wattage sort in the extractor so the room is relying on the other 3 GU10s to fill the room, but they arent overly bright, especially the one over the sink/mirror for shaving etc.
Anyone recommend a mega bright GU10 bulb?
 
I'm a bit out of touch with LED bulb pricing these days, is this a good deal for decent GU10s (£13.80 for 6)?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01KHILJ5O/

I'm moving into a new flat in a few weeks, halogen GU10s everywhere. I'm renting, but I'm wondering if it's worth me replacing some that will be on a lot with some cheap LEDs instead, or whether there'd be no real saving to be made on energy usage. Any ideas?
 
Those are the exact bulbs I replaced a lot of GU10's in our house with. The energy savings from halogen to GU10 LED are massive. For rough maths a halogen is 50w, LED is 5w, assuming 3 hours use a day on average for 10 lights (winter could be even higher!) and 13p per unit, the halogens would cost 20p a day to run, the LED lights just 2p. That's £65 saved in a year. Also halogens tend to blow quite quickly, I've not had a single LED bulb go in 6 years of use although some are dimmer than when first bought. If they pay for themselves within a few months it's worth it.

I would replace all the halogens with LED's if possible and store the halogens, then when it's time to move out put the halogens back in. Landlord won't moan that bulbs are not working when leaving and you'll have saved a packet in running cost, take the bulbs with you to your next property.
 
I think I must be very strange and I go against the norm, everybody seems to prefer "warm-white" light. I personally prefer "cold-hard-bright-white" light.
 
Agree (TheVoice's amazon deal unfortunately just 2.7K)
The few 6k 's(cree) I bought were too harsh/blue though, even for the kitchen, they had a poor CRI value though, and I think poor cri also gives
the, too yellowish aspect to many 2.7K bulbs, versus incandescent predecessors.
So I stick to ~4K (kitchen/cooking/eating/hallways/reading ), high cri is equally important, but they want ££ for that.
 
Anyone got recommendations for some GU10 dimmable 4000k LED bulbs? Need to buy 11 for my kitchen, dining room, utility and downstairs cloakroom. I have Hue bulbs upstairs, but will wait till Black Friday in case Amazon have any deals on for Hue GU10's.
 
panthro said:
Anyone got recommendations for some GU10 dimmable 4000k LED bulbs? Need to buy 11 for my kitchen, dining room, utility and downstairs cloakroom. I have Hue bulbs upstairs, but will wait till Black Friday in case Amazon have any deals on for Hue GU10's.
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I need exactly the same (8 bulbs for my kitchen) - currently considering these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01KHIMDUY

For some reason, multipacks seem to be more expensive than individual bulbs.
 
I have 5 of those in my bathroom. Only reason I'm not planning using in the kitchen is because they buzz. Not sure if it's all of them as I just haven't got round to testing them one-by-one, but there is definitely one that's noticeable noisier than the others. I'm using V-PRO dimmers throughout, so it shouldn't be an issue with the switch.

Otherwise, very pleased with them for the price. Somewhere in the thread someone commented they have a slightly green tinge, but can't say I've noticed that.
 
Looking to replace a couple of kitchen plinth type lights for LED equivalent if anyone can recommend something.
One of the bulbs has gone so now would be a good time.
This is how it currently looks and is running a 13w fluorescent.

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They are boxed in between frosted glass in a unit measuring 600mm x 200mm x 35mm.


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Any recommendations or ideas would be much appreciated.
 
chipperhead said:
Looking to replace a couple of kitchen plinth type lights for LED equivalent if anyone can recommend something.
One of the bulbs has gone so now would be a good time.
This is how it currently looks and is running a 13w fluorescent.



They are boxed in between frosted glass in a unit measuring 600mm x 200mm x 35mm.




Any recommendations or ideas would be much appreciated.
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If it's powered directly off a 240v feed with a switch elsewhere then I'd get an LED transformer and some LED strip tape

We've recently done our under cabinet lighting using these and the light is bright and very even.

One of these connected instead of the bulky holder: https://www.led-lighthouse.co.uk/le...an-well-18-watt-led-driver-12v-ip67-lph-18-12 (only need a 12w one but this unit is thinner)
1m per light pre cut and cable soldered wrapped on 3 sides of the fixture for even lighting: https://www.led-lighthouse.co.uk/le...exible-led-strip-3528-120led-m-waterproof-12v
 
Steeps said:
If it's powered directly off a 240v feed with a switch elsewhere then I'd get an LED transformer and some LED strip tape

We've recently done our under cabinet lighting using these and the light is bright and very even.

One of these connected instead of the bulky holder: https://www.led-lighthouse.co.uk/le...an-well-18-watt-led-driver-12v-ip67-lph-18-12 (only need a 12w one but this unit is thinner)
1m per light pre cut and cable soldered wrapped on 3 sides of the fixture for even lighting: https://www.led-lighthouse.co.uk/le...exible-led-strip-3528-120led-m-waterproof-12v
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Yes it's a 240v feed, it looks perfect for what I need.
Thanks :)
 
My computer room has a terrible light fitting so thought I would spruce up the room by buying 4 MR16 bulbs. Installed these, but when I switch them on (no dimmer switch) the bulbs flicker like crazy almost to the point where it looks like strobe lighting and would send me into a epileptic seizure if I was epileptic. Bit the bullet and thought Id buy myself a new light fitting this one in fact --->https://www.amazon.co.uk/Adjustable...&sr=8-1&keywords=chrome+black+3+eye+led+light

I will have to buy new LED bulbs the lower the lumens the better, I bought a LED bulb many years ago that could dim itself. If I switched it on quickly twice it would go through a dimming process, once the required dimming level reached I would switch the bulb back off then back on and it would remain at the previous dimmed setting. Does anyone know what type of bulb this would have been. I don't want to start replacing the light switch for a dimmer switch as It has cost me a fortune to have all matching socket switches etc.
 
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