LED Lights for the home

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.