Hey there… new to this site and liking the detail here on LED lights… my latest home improvement project/obsession…
I have probably about 6 ceiling lamps in various hallways in my house that use either a good old 22 Watt or a 32 Watt circular fluorescent bulb.
Now, these lamps tend to get switched on and off quite a bit because they are in halls, and so even though fluorescents should last several years, they tend to start to die and flicker in about a year. Multiply that by the cost of the bulbs, and the fact that I hate the light they put off, I’m thinking of replacing them with LEDs if it makes sense.
One option is to change all the fixtures to high-hats and then use one of those nice “all in one” EcoSmart LED replacement high-hat bulbs with the integrated trim rings I can get from Lowes for about $40. I have used this in a few places I have high-hats in my house and they work really nice, but the problem is that I would need to pay an electrician to install the high-hats in place of the hall fixtures at probably about $100 a pop. .and then I would probably have an unpainted area where the old fixture was because the high-hat is smaller then the fixture it would replae, so I would probably need to spackle and paint, so this starts to become a bigger project then I wanted…… so seems like a lot of work to save a few watts a year…
So I was looking online and see that Philips has an LED ceiling light (part of their “Ledino” series) that may do the trick and let me swap out the fixture directly. Here is the link to the fixture on amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0079LT1HG/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_9?ie=UTF8&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
Unfortunately, there are no reviews at all on Amazon on this light, which is a bit of an ominous sign, although Philips is a big player in the LED market.
It isn’t cheap (listed on Amazon for $156), and it doesn’t state the Lumens, so not sure yet if it would put out enough light, but it would mean I could probably just swap the entire fixture (something I can do myself) and possibly never change a bulb again and save electricity, although not sure if the payback here is worth the effort… this would cost me over $800 to swap out 6 fluorescent ceiling fixtures… that seems like an awful lot of money to save maybe 10 watts a fixture plus future bulb costs… payback here may be REAL long…
Just curious if anyone has tried out this Philips Ledino LED ceiling light and knows anything about it, or has tried out any other LED Ceiling lights… although there don’t appear to be many yet on the market that I have found…
Or, may just wait and see if some more ceiling light LEDs start to hit the market and prices start to drop…
Thanks.
Michael