Not bad, I have those bulbs throughout my home, and so far, no failures.
Off topic a bit, but Wal Mart stores in my area have been clearancing out last season’s LED bulbs for good prices as well. I was able to get a good buy on some of the 100W equivalent bulbs, with the old style heavy fluted heatsink bases ($5/pr) to, and several 75W equivalent GE PAR 30 like pictured below for $5 each. I’m both cases, I checked the new stock and the same style bulbs were available for 3-5x the clearance cost.
Recently SEARS sold the Craftsman name to Stanley Black & Decker
Yesterday it was announced that starting in 2018 Lowes will be selling Craftsman tools.
Interesting, I wonder if they will still be made in China… The older stuff that is made in the USA are better quality. I dred breaking any of my Craftsman stuff because I know they will replace with the new stuff.
I saw this deal on LED 4’ replacement tubes for florescent light fixtures.These pics come from 2 different Lowes stores. I checked a few other stores around the country online and this deal seems to be everywhere.
This is by far the cheapest I have ever seen 4’ LED replacement tubes!
I picked up a 4 pack for $12.49 to play around with. Our kitchen ceiling fixture takes 3 tubes, leaving me one to mess with. I’ll post those pics later.
4 tubes for $12.49 is only a little over $3 each!
2 packs for $7.49 (5000K DayLight)
or 4 packs for $12.49 (5000K DayLight)
On the left are 4 packs of 4000K bulbs marked down to $21.23
They do not, they work only with an electronic ballast. Not the magnetic ones.
Actually for most I would think that would be preferable. Simple replacement.
As I said, I’ll know more after I fool around with one
My point is with ballast it is very inefficient When I go led, I do not want a ballast. So I would go with other type tubes. There is a thread already about those tube types.
hmmmm...... searched and cant find other thread i'm looking for. Hyperikon branded led tubes is what i remember was the discussion...I think...I know the brand began with the letter H. Anybody else find it post link here please
Well, after realizing that ALL Lowes stores was clearing out these LED replacement tubes I decided to take a chance on a lower price.
I returned the box of 4 that I had paid $12.49 for.
My gamble paid off.
This week while traveling in Ohio, I stopped in a Lowes west of Cleveland. As I walked past this clearance cart, an associate told me that everything on the cart was marked off an additional 75%.
The blue arrow points to 10 cartons of 2 each of these 4 foot LED replacement bulbs. The previous clearance price was $7.49 per box of 2. An additional 75% off brings that down to $1.87. (they had to make the price correction aat the register) Using my Lowes card got me an extra 5%.
There was also some 6 packs of E27 light bulbs that had been marked down to $7.98. 75% off that brings it down to an even $2 per pack of 6. I got just one of those.
85 cents per 4 foot LED replacement tube
Remember ALL Lowes stores have these on clearance. Check your store out, you just might be lucky enough to get the extra 75. I say that because I have noticed that Lowes will often times do the extra 75 at the end when they really, really what to move old stock.
Will that extra 75% show up when you check on-line? My local store is still showing $12.49/4pack with 51 available. I’m going to try and check for these tomorrow.
No, I don’t think the extra 75% will show up online.
There is only a small chance they will have the extra 75% off. I mentioned in my post that they had to do a price adjustment at the register. In other words they scanned for the old price.
Can you believe I still haven’t had the time to check out what I bought?
You might find a sympathetic manager that will price match if you show him pics and the receipt. :innocent:
Well I finally put a couple of these LED 4’ replacements into a new in the box florescent light fixture I had stowed away.
I will compare it casually to both the $15 MaxLite LED shop lights that I bought at Ocean State Job Lot and the FEIT LED shop light that I got at Costco, on sale for $20. (All three lights emit about the same amount of light)
Watts and Volt-Amps drawn measureing with a “Kill-A-Watt” meter
Utilitech replacement LED in florescent fixture with Solid State Ballast - 61W, 105VA
MaxLite LED fixture - 38W, 40VA
FEIT LED fixture - 35W, 35VA ( I know, that’s what it said)
Well my Lowe’s still has these bulbs at the advertised price (no additional discount) - I would have bet money on it. I picked up (4) 4-packs of 5000k (5000k not available in 16-packs, at least not at my store) only to realize when I got home that I should have bought 4000k (when I have decisions like that to make, I choose wrong 95% of the time). So tomorrow I’ll call ahead to have them pull down the 16-packs from the overheads (display was empty today) and keep one at customer service for a quick 5 minute return and $10 refund.
Oh, plenty of each pack at my store, though most in the overheads.