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I've made quite a few purchases from LedHut (LumiLife bulbs) over the past few months, everything from GU10 to ES and bayonet. Nice warm white glow and no flicker, happy with the GU10's especially.
However, I would not recommend buying any "60Watt+ replacement" or any single bulb putting out 800lumens or greater. I have one of these and an ES one of the same type. And while the warm white color, lack of flicker and light output is all fantastic, they get hot after being on for a while! Like 80+ celcius hot (measured with laser thermometer, after 30min mine was 82c on the outside!). This is bound to significantly reduce their lifespan, I reckon I'll be lucky if I get 3 years out of them...
In my lounge I didn't want to replace the single light fitting, which has used a 150Watt incandescent so far. So I stupidly bought a few of those cheap "corn cob" bulbs from a certain auction site (here is one of them in my bathroom). These were truly awful! Very unnatural colour, lower light output than advertised, and HORRIBLE flickering "strobe" effect. Some were even being sold without any plastic/glass covering leaving exposed soldering joints which is just insane.
Anyway I persisted, and after searching for weeks finally found some powerful enough 20+Watt LED bulbs with good colour, no flicker, strong output, widest possible coverage and no heat problems. In fact there seems to be just one German seller out there right now with a product like this ("liqoo-england" on a popular auction site - I have no connection bar making a few purchases from this person). Below is a photo of the B22 30Watt MONSTER currently installed in my lounge, equivalent to a 200Watt incandescent(!):
Yes it's big, but my ball-shaped shade completely covers it. Note the metal heatsinks behind each strip, most just don't have them and it averages 45c (never goes above 50c) which bodes well for a long lifespan.
Lights up a really large room all on its lonesome, which is great for those too lazy to replace light fittings
However, I would not recommend buying any "60Watt+ replacement" or any single bulb putting out 800lumens or greater. I have one of these and an ES one of the same type. And while the warm white color, lack of flicker and light output is all fantastic, they get hot after being on for a while! Like 80+ celcius hot (measured with laser thermometer, after 30min mine was 82c on the outside!). This is bound to significantly reduce their lifespan, I reckon I'll be lucky if I get 3 years out of them...
In my lounge I didn't want to replace the single light fitting, which has used a 150Watt incandescent so far. So I stupidly bought a few of those cheap "corn cob" bulbs from a certain auction site (here is one of them in my bathroom). These were truly awful! Very unnatural colour, lower light output than advertised, and HORRIBLE flickering "strobe" effect. Some were even being sold without any plastic/glass covering leaving exposed soldering joints which is just insane.
Anyway I persisted, and after searching for weeks finally found some powerful enough 20+Watt LED bulbs with good colour, no flicker, strong output, widest possible coverage and no heat problems. In fact there seems to be just one German seller out there right now with a product like this ("liqoo-england" on a popular auction site - I have no connection bar making a few purchases from this person). Below is a photo of the B22 30Watt MONSTER currently installed in my lounge, equivalent to a 200Watt incandescent(!):
Yes it's big, but my ball-shaped shade completely covers it. Note the metal heatsinks behind each strip, most just don't have them and it averages 45c (never goes above 50c) which bodes well for a long lifespan.
Lights up a really large room all on its lonesome, which is great for those too lazy to replace light fittings
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