So you successfully “dedomed” a 60W equivalent CREE with a meter long light saber?
I’m impressed 
I haven’t had a problem with the 60W bulbs either.
Home Depot rejected my attempt to return Cree bulbs for the first time. So much for recommending buying LED bulbs there for excellent customer service. This will be the first time I try Cree’s customer service. The replacements came from Costco this time. Feit dimmable 100W bulb 4-pack for $17. I was tempted to bring some back from my trip to Seattle where they were subsidized to $8, iirc.
The only Feit bulbs I’ve tried are some ~150 lumen candelabla-style bulbs. They work really well though, have had them for ages, and they were advanced for their time. They get a lot of use because they’re in two uplamps on top of my desk.
I used Cree’s customer service several times before finally simply asking for a full refund. I bought a pair of 100 watt Cree equivalent lamps from Home Depot, and all up I went through both, and 3 replacements before calling it quits. Between the maximum of 1000 hours I got out of each lamp (and some lasted as little as 20 minutes), the $6 each it cost to return each of them, and average of 4 weeks it took Cree to replace them, I was really unhappy with the product and Cree. I calculated the payback period was the 21st of never. Cree did refund the purchase price eventually. This seems to have been a problem unique to the 100 watt equivalent lamps. I have had no trouble with the 40 and 60 watt equivalent lamps. The fixture that used the 100 watt lamps now has CFL’s that have been relatively trouble free by comparison. It is likely to be a long time before I try 100 watt equivalent LED lamps again.
A little while back I tried some Philips 100W equivalent bulbs and wasn’t happy with them. They just didn’t seem that bright.
Recently I came upon 3 of these 60-100-150W at a very good price 
They are FEIT brand and are 3 way bulbs. 800, 1500 and 2200 Lumens.
This bulb is larger than a regular 60W equiv. and can be converted to a single way bulb by soldering a small wire at the base as shown.
I wouldn’t recommend doing that though, but at 2200 lumen, this bulb is bright!
Compared to a FEIT 60W equivalent bulb
Great tip! I didn’t know about shorting 3-way bulbs, so I had a couple of bulbs that were seriously underperforming. You just got me 2500 lumens.
Today I found these Maxlite 100W equivalents at a regional chain in New England called Ocean State Job Lot.
99 cents each.
I am familiar with the Maxlite brand and they are decent. When CFL’s first started to become popular about 20 years ago I bought quite a few at a Utility Company energy promotion.
I tried this Cree bulb. It is good. But recently I bought a Sansi 17W led bulb (150w equivalent) on Amazon.I didn’t know what to think when I turned it on its so bright,just love it ! Maybe you can have a try if you like bright but energy-saving lights.
Dimmable is good. I rarely want full brightness but it’s nice to have sometimes. 
Hello! I have been crazy about LEDs since I got a LED bulb last Christmas. I got it for free to review and was amazed by its performance.I had replaced almost all my lights into LEDs. These brand name Sansi LED lights have 17W （150W equivalent）and 30W(250W equivalent) which may help you. And I also saw some blogs from other reviewers. “http://gazettereview.com/2017/05/sansi-17w-led-bulb-review/ http://www.theoutdoornerd.com/2017/04/review-sansi-warm-white-15w-light-bulb.html
Hello. Do you work for Sansi? Your profile pic appears to be one of their marketing images and most of your posts have been recommendations for their products.
Be careful question people named Alice...
They could have superpowers! 
Always gotta be careful with Alices. Some of them have evil residing inside!
Just a month ago I posted about the 99 cent 100W MaxLite at OSJL
Well now they are on “Crazy Deal” Buy 10 and get a $9.90 Gift Card.
OSJL has been bringing CREE’s in for months now and using their Crazy Deal promotions to move them. The styles of bulbs are changing with time. I am waiting and hoping for the 100W Cree’s
It seems OSJL has aquired all, or most of Cree’s inventory as they remove themselves from the in home light bulb market.
This is what is inside of the MaxLite 100W equivalent.
these are typical 60W equivalents.
Finally 100W equivalents at low prices are starting to become more common. Here is another brand, FEIT, offered at OSJL for 99 cents. This is not a Crazy Deal, just a straight up price.
3000K vs the 2700K of the MaxLite.
At 1600 lumen vs 800 lumen for the 60W FEIT, this bulb is slightly larger
how can they sell those for 1$?
the 30 LEDs in there cost more than that in production
I have about half a dozen of those Feit bulbs, great bulb, but regular price here is $17.99 :person_facepalming:
Fortunately i got them on sale but your price is incredible
Sometimes taxpayers pay for it, sometimes utilities do it as a last ditch effort to reduce consumption because they’d lose less money than if they were forced to buy power from expensive generators, but it’s usually somewhere in between with a dose of pr lies.
The downside is that locals like dchomak could buy hundreds and sell them to me on the other side the country. I’ve been tempted to ask, but won’t because he and his neighbors would pay for it somehow.
That is true. However OSJL deals mostly in odd lots from closeouts, bankruptcies etc. A manager told me he thinks that with the CREE’s, OSJL worked something out with both the State of Connecticut and CREE where they were able to get them for free.
If there was a way to get some to members here economically I would do it. Shipping is a killer.
I have been passing out bulbs to friends and strangers like Johnny Apple Seed.
BTW, while I am in OSJL I point other customers to the CREE displays and tell them about the “free” bulbs. A question I often hear is “are they bright enough”
It occurred to me that LED’s have gotten a bad reputation in many peoples minds due to the poor quality of light from the first LED flashlights and devices like the solar landscape lights. Most people who have never tried one probably imagine a very dim, purplish light.
Have you noticed that the most Liberal States in the Country also have the highest cost of living?
They also generally have the highest average incomes too.
That is the picture of the insides of the MaxLite and I count 54 LED’s
Here is a picture of the FEIT next to the MaxLite and the FEIT does have 30 LED’s!
How did you know that