Posted on 07/22/2019 5:27:15 AM PDT by napscoordinator
I think the real issue was at first, all the LED’s put out a harsh blue light. Once they got the color warmer, and the price dropped by x10 why not.
Yeah! Congrats!! I admit I just began changing my lights six weeks ago so never felt the price shock. Although initial investment of 3 dollars a light was pretty expensive. I’m hoping that as advertised, I’ll be dead when replacements are needed. Lol!!!!!
I asked the owner of the business where I worked to change the standard fluorescent lights in my work area to “sunlight” ones. It really helped.
When the mailman came into the office shortly after the change, he commented, “MOOD LIGHTS.” lol
Maybe the ones that flicker are defective?
I had one did that, replaced it, and no problem.
So you are one of those newbie people who move to the country and then light it up like a prison camp.
Out here, a city person will buy a house and immediately install a STREET LIGHT on their garage.
One neighbor had a 250 watt on a pole at the end of their driveway.
It was recently changed. I suspect someone spoke to them
They save electricity AND they greatly reduce the heat burden your air conditioner need to remove from your home.
We changed out all lights with the most accurate color spectrum lights we could find from GE. The color is great!
I have LEDs in my bathroom. What I have noticed is that they will flicker at times, but if I run the hair dryer, they stop flickering and are actually a bit brighter. The dryer loads the circuit which drops the voltage a little, so they must like the lower voltage.
Strange.
I have an all-LED house. I use the “daylight” ones in the kitchen and bathrooms and the “softglow” ones everywhere else. I haven’t noticed any flickering....
I wonder if I have that. I get headaches but thought it was just stress.
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well, coordinating all those naps is tough work. Like herding cats.
I like the LEDs just fine.
I think they would have done very well in the marketplace without government coercion.
When government outlawed incandescent bulbs and forced people to buy CFLs or LEDs, the fact that people were buying an arguably better product was beside the point. Government manipulation of the marketplace is always bad, even if I like the new product I am forced to buy.
The marketplace is supposed to get us to this place, not government coercion.
Such a harsh white light. No warmth at all. Surgical.
This explains it:
https://richbrilliantwilling.com/blogs/light-reading/7988231-understanding-color-temperature-of-led-lighting
I have some 6K LED’s in my house and they are terrible. Meanwhile, I have a LOT of 2.8k LED’s in my house and they are spectacular. In fact, some have that nice “orange” light look from low wattage designer bulbs. They are 40 watt and have long LED filaments. We have strings of those over our 40x20 deck. Two strings, 80’ of suspended lights. The entire setup uses 60 watts, total! And the lighting is extremely romantic.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DFGY6N8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
And we even got a remote controlled (keychain switch) connector that allows us to turn them on and off from inside the house.
And for all the paths and gardens on our property there is stuff like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Upgraded-Illumination-Waterproof-Wireless-Security/dp/B077BFM2W5/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=led+solar+light&qid=1563799846&s=lawn-garden&sr=1-3
Yep. We know when deer are trapsing through the property. :)
Like most of us, when the price went from $39.99 to $3.99 and they solved the blue light problem, it’s a decision that makes itself.
I recently replaced all my low voltage outdoor lights with LED’s. I have to admit it looks spectacular and it got me Yard of the Month in my neighborhood.
Everyone, just look at what can be done with solar that was simply not feasible with incandescent nor florescent:
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=led+solar+light&i=lawngarden&ref=nb_sb_noss
I’ve had two or three “lifetime” LED bulbs burn out on me already.
Many of the different types of LEDs I’ve used to replace the incandescent lighting in & around my home have now failed, multiple times.
The LEDs themselves have “died” either partially or completely in the types with elongated LEDs and series of LED arrays. The other types (of LED lamps) have had (other than LED) board component failures e.g. all the magic blue smoke has escaped.
I attribute the failures to poor fabrication and/or poor workmanship. The problem is trying to find the “good stuff”.
Love that old joke.
I’m all for LED lighting and think it’s a wonderful technology. Hardly new as the original calculators used them in red. I used LEDs in the sign business 20 years ago and that’s where a lot of the research came about in making them put out a wider beam of light. They’re replaces neon in a lot of applications and that’s a good thing as neon runs off of 7500-15,000 volt transformers and piss poor installations have set a lot of buildings on fire. (gives you one helluva jolt too(:
We llived off grid for 5 years and it would have been tough getting along without them. I had saved some from the sign business and they’re still working to this day. Well over 10 years in service. They’re 12vdc so they run directly off of battery power. When the electric goes out, we don’t even notice except for the clocks on the range and microwave going out. Our LEDs could go for months on our golf cart batteries.
Only problem right now is the thousands of chinese designed and built LEDs flooding the market. You never know what color those will be. Orange/white, blue/white or somewhere in between. Mostly a problem with all the outdoor solar powered lights. I’ve got a neighbor that has several different brands and therefor several different shades of outdoor lights. Looks kinda funky. Never know how long the china stuff is going to last either and if you buy online, returns aren’t worth the effort even if it can be done. (amazon)
Menards sells some shop lights that are pretty decent. Four foot fixture for $30 are brighter than fluorescent. Oddly enough, another Menards wanted $40. URPower makes some decent motion activated, solar outdoor lights. For indoors, I stick with brand name screw in bulbs although I did get a pair of utilitech from Lowes that seem decent. There are some that have the nice slightly yellow glow that are real close to incandescent. CFL and a lot of LED “soft white” always seem orange instead of yellow. For the kitchen, the blueish ones are fine as they’re bright and reminiscent of old school fluorescent light as far as color.
I've never been a fan of bright overhead lights in my home at night anyhow. I prefer more subdued "accent" lighting throughout the house like pictured below. LED is perfect for that.
This is stock photo by the way to show what I'm talking about - not my actual living room.
Get stuff like these and you’ll never go back:
25 watt equivalent (2 watt):
https://www.amazon.com/ECOWHO-Replacement-Vintage-Commercial-Lighting/dp/B07HK4GKSK/ref=sr_1_9?keywords=25+watt+led+bulb&qid=1563800181&s=lawn-garden&sr=1-9
40 watt equivalent (4.5 watt):
https://www.amazon.com/Dimmable-Filament-Vintage-Equivalent-Restaurant/dp/B07DFCNS8F/ref=sr_1_6?keywords=40+watt+led+bulb&qid=1563800281&s=lawn-garden&sr=1-6
We use both. You can get the same color temperature in “normal looking bulb” varieties as well.
Every single light bulb in our house is now LED. We noticed it in our power bill. We also have much more attractive lighting than we used to. And most of those bulbs are pretty much permanent. They are becoming like Iridium spark plugs in cars. They are no longer a maintenance item. It allows you to design around light bulbs that you don’t expect to have to replace due to failure - kind of like the plumbing in your house.
Do you have cats in the house? That's why.
“Such a harsh white light. No warmth at all. Surgical.”
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You should go to a store, such as Homedepot that has a large selection. I’m replacing with the led soft white bulbs. Puts out a soft slightly yellow cast. Not the harsh white you’re referring to. Just a side note; I’ve replaced all the bulbs in my camper with led bulbs. They draw less watts yet are brighter and put out virtually no heat which is important being most camper AC units struggle to keep up when outside temp exceeds 90 degrees.
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