My wife and I have been experimenting with LED lighting for about three years now and it has been a somewhat tiresome experience.
She’s an engineer and has been sold on the benefits of this new technology for a while. I’m what you might call an early adapter.
We’ve tried a myriad of domestic product including bulbs from Philips and it just hasn’t matched our expectations of halogen light output and temp.
A colleague of my wife has put us onto a Brisbane company who apparently have a Director who has come from a Chinese LED factory to start this company.
He “claims” this is the first genuine replacement in a GU10 and MR16 to replace the 50W halogen.
Anyways, we’ve purchased 10 x 5W MR16s from their site to put them to the test.
I will keep you all posted on the results & some pics when the bulbs are installed.
I’m very interested in this. For a while now I’ve been quite perturbed by the absence of locally available suitably bright LED lighting for the home, especially considering that there has been an array of efficient component LEDs on the market for quite some time. It’s long overdue.
Have you tried the Brightgreen DR700’s, mickasunshinecoast.
Still exy (can get them slightly under AU$50 now).
They are very good though. And Australian tech.
Keep us posted on your experiment.
Was eyeballing whales in your neighbourhood couple of weekends ago. They big!
I saw some standard fit bulbs on the Aldi site, but they seemed suspiciously like standard CFL’s, especially given the graphic they are using for the incan comparison:
The best MR16 bulbs , by far, are the Philips Endura 10 watt / 490 lumen ones. I get more light (actually measured) in the rooms than with the supposed 900 lumen/50 watt halogens. My house uses 42 of them. Two rooms are lit exclusively by them.
5W bulbs will really suck at socking out the lumens… believe me, I’ve tested lots and lots of them. The best ones that I tested were less than 200 real (not Chinese) lumens. Most were in the 135-150 lumen area.
Yes, those are very nice bulbs. I have very few globe type bulbs in my house (almost all are downlights). I used a couple of the Philips globe bulbs like the second one that you listed (I’ve seen them for $15). I played with one of the E-prize bulbs that a friend bought and was quite impressed.
I would like to know that too. Btw I found a video with the new model: The new L-Prize lamp
And this one with the one I have ordered (price 30 EURO): Last year model
Cree also has a version (don’t know if it’s available): Cree lamp
Interesting, because they all use what they call “remote phosphor”. I think there could be a phosphor layer in the outer shell, which lights up when hit by light from bluish LED’s (but I could be wrong).
The idea behind remote phosphor LEDs is that it gets the phosphor away from the heat of the LED and makes it last longer.
The big commercial drawback is that people see the yellow phosphor and think that they are a yellow bug lamp. Philips has a label on their package that says it is a white lamp, but since most people can’t be bothered to (or don’t know how to) read, the lamps don’t sell.
I found an interesting tear-down of the L-Prize lamp.
Not a trivial driver, and what a big bunch of components (that could fail). Some of them are bound to die before the LED’s are worn out - but maybe not in my lifetime
