LED Lights for the home

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Even though the last two posts appear to be spam, I thought I'd mention the 1.3W LED "bulbs" I got from Wal-Mart. About $8 I think.

As I recall the frosted one is rated for 69 lumens, and the clear, 72 lumens. So, they are pretty dim, but I put 5 of them in my house anyway. 2 are in lamps in the kid's room, so I don't have to yell at them for wasting electricity when they leave the light on all day/night. The kids have managed to break off both of the outer glass enclosures so they are not very durable (not that anything glass is going to be durable around kids), but the LEDs inside continue to work. 2 more are in desk lamps, and the last one is in a reading lamp. All work fine for their intended purpose, reading or typing. I wouldn't try to illuminate a room or hallway though, not even a closet.

The clear version has a mottled "beam pattern" casting light and dark areas, so the frosted flavor is probably what you want unless you're putting it in a lamp with a shade.

The emitters themselves appear to be a cluster of standard 5mm through-hole LEDs, but with a "slow phosphor" to eliminate 60Hz flicker (there is an afterglow effect when switching the bulb off). Indeed, they don't flicker, except when my laser printer warms up.

As I expect these are probably cheap crappy LEDs, I imagine they will not last their full rated lifetime before dimming, but so far so good after several months. As long as they last long enough to pay for themselves, I think I'll be happy. In the case of the kid's room, they're probably already close to break-even. ;)

Tsk, tsk. Pretending to be a customer of your own shop is a big lie....

ok so this may be an old thread but as i have converted my entire home to run led light bulbs i would certanly recommend these

i have a 4 bar gu10 strip in my kitchen that used to run 50w halogens these have now been replaced with 3x2w dimmable led's imho these are actualy brighter

these have been running without a problem for over 6 months now before i was swapping out a halogen bulb at the rate of one every 2-3 months for the same price these cost me

i aslo have two light fittings in my living room with these bulbs in each with 3 bulbs

2 fittings in my hall one top one bottom with 3x1watt gu10

and one of each fitting with the same 3x1w's for the bedroom but i used warm white in these i have had to relpace 2 of these but the leds still work the driver is the weak point there

in the bathroom i used blue leds

got the light fitting as a job lot and fleabay cost me £20 for 10 light fittings plus postage

the 3x1w were about £3 each the 3x2w dimmable slightly more expensive at £7 plus postage

i have also converted a freinds house over to these after he saw mine

Links please?

the price of high power led is dropping fast, now you can buy a 100w led for 12$(ofc chinese with low CRI) in 5 years we will convert the fluorescent/halogen lamps in led

$12? a very very cheap price, i am not sure if it is of good quality? any quality warranty?

I think there is an updated answer to the question of this old thread. At this moment almost every type of light bulb in a house can be replaced by an equally or better performing led bulb. The market is quite overcrowded with cheap meh-performing trash led bulbs, but if you are able to ignore that there are are really good performing led bulbs from the established brands (Philips, Cree, Sylvania). The only area that is not covered well as far as I know is the replacement of 4000K halogen bulbs, high CRI 4000K leds are available (we all know the Nichia 219 92CRI) but I have not seen a high output householt bulb with them.

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djozz doesn't seem like that spamming type, hahaha.

Back on topic,

Bought several of these from FT to replace halogen downlights in my home.

Will get back to you guys on how they perform.

The spam post was deleted before you saw it leaving poor djozz next in line…lol… was definitely a spammer with link to his website. They love to resurrect older threads and slip in their links.

Eventually, we will all want to convert all lights to led, except when we need the heat of incandescents, such as to dry out the bathroom if it has no separate electric heater. Since they are rapidly getting cheaper, it might be cheaper to weight longer for those that are not constantly used. I have found that for dimming lights the dimmer as well as the bulb needs changing.

I recently bought a double LED outdoor rated flood light from Lowes for $50 and it is outstanding. The fixture and bulbs come together, so if you compare it to buying the base and bulbs for a conventional flood light, it is very similar. And I am telling you the light it throws off is great, very clean and powerful and very cheap to operate. Good luck, Ed

My house has over 300 LED bulbs… the only incandescent bulbs are in the ’fridge, microwave, and ovens. Also two wall mounted reading lamps on swing arms next to a bed. They use a funky hotdog shaped bulb that nobody makes a LED replacement for… plus, I never use them

As far as incandescent lights being good room heater, the really are not… particularly in recessed ceiling cans. Most of the heat goes up into the ceiling and provides little effective room heating. There is no forced air flow to move the heat where it can do some good.

Also, LED bulbs save you very little on your cooling bill. A typical air conditioner might use 1 watt of electricity to move out 40 watts of heat. So each LED bulb might save you 1 watt of cooling power… rather trivial to what the AC unit is sucking…

Oven would be a poor spot to put an LED. Not sure about a microwave. I've wanted to find an LED bulb for the fridge, but haven't got around to it.

I've used incandescent bulbs as heaters before. The dorms I was living in had an hvac system that was switched from hot to cold centrally for summer or winter. Usually they'd let it be cold for a while before switching it to heat, so I'd use a couple 250 watt bulbs in table lamps to heat my room. I'm glad I wasn't playing the electric bill.

This thread keeps popping up, it attracts quite a lot of spam.

Feit electric has a line of Led bulbs that can be used in fully enclosed fixtures. I have some and they work great. Nice color and no hum. They are sold at Menards. Cree has their own brand of Led bulbs. They are sold at Home Depot. I use those in my lamps. I purchased two Infinia 40 watt equivalent bulbs from Earth Led’s. They can be used in enclosed fixtures but have a awful green tint. These bulbs are rated at a color temp of 2700. :slight_smile:

More spam above here, the combination led+home in the thread title keeps attracting spam in this ancient thread.

Well, it’s sorta spam. No relevant info, but at least there’s no link to a seller. But I could really use a new paisley handbag.

I checked out their website, no handbags there :-(

It took a google search, it would have been more convenient if they had given a direct link in the post above.