Posted on 03/27/2014 5:19:29 AM PDT by thackney
I wonder if it could be an inconsistent voltage level problem or something.
There’s something wrong with them. I attended a meeting at a house that was entirely lit with LED. I could barely see after an hour or so. They are extremely harsh on eyes.
I like saving money. I’ve already bought some LED bulbs when the price was right.
However, I do not like liberals in Washington D.C. forcing me to buy something or do anything based on disputable science, especially a science that gives them vast new powers.
I cannot seem to find their “right” to force me to do so in the US Constitution.
We are mixed due to the California “Title 24” energy regs. We put recessed LEDs in our kitchen and dining area as well as under-counter during the remodel. They are ok, but color isn’t great, dimming isn’t great, they occasionally “flash” very briefly to higher intensity, they create a strobe effect on water streams and pouring dry goods, and there’s a short turn-on lag. I just love paying 10x the price for less quality. Thank you government.
To top it all off, our kitchen and DR lights aren’t on enough throughout the rest of our lifetimes to payback the damn things.
Same here. CFL’s suck. I stocked up on incandescents and am slowly buying LED’s for certain rooms. Mainly the lights that get left on by the wife and kids. It is amazing how much effort it takes to flip a switch as you are walking out of a room.
My experience with CFL’s is that over half go bad within the first year. Some just quit working, but most lose their brightness and take so long to warm up that I am done in that room and gone while it is still lighting its way around the curly Q. And don’t even try to use them for outside lights in the fall and winter if you live north of Florida.
Ha! Same here...
But, I've discovered recently that the wife WANTS all the lights on. It's not a matter of effort or forgetfulness, it's a matter of preference.
So, I express my preference of lower electric bills by shutting them off when no one is in that room.
Cfls are junk. As anyone will tell you in cold weather they are simply junk. They don’t fully light in cold. They don’t last as long as a plain old bulb. They don’t require a hazmat team to clean up if they break. They don’t fit in fixtures. You can’t dim them. And besides. The FREE MARKET would have phased out the bulbs with new LEDs.
Crappy CFLs, perverts in blue uniforms feeling up children at airports, random police searches, and an endless war. George W Bush, the gift that keeps on giving.
Gov't meddling at its finest. LEDs would be good for some uses. CFLs for others. Incandescents for the rest. BUT....rather than have people decide what's best for them, they decide what's best for everyone. @#%$@%@%$!
FWIW, I'm only replacing those lights that are on all the time. Eventually, I'll need to go LED for everything and hopefully by then the price point will have come down.
I'm using "Cree" LEDs, the "soft white", instant-on version. Haven't seen any of the issues that you're describing, no strobing or flashing, none of that turn-on lag (the lag would have been the deal-breaker for me, that drives me crazy). I don't use a dimmer for any of them; I've no idea if they're dimmable.
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