Posted on 04/23/2012 3:19:08 PM PDT by SMGFan
After months in development, Philips is finally ready to sell LED light bulbs that last 20 years. Could be quite a game-changer — after all, if you didn't have to change a light bulb between now and when your unborn child graduates from high school, just think of all the precious minutes you could spend on other tasks. And the environment would surely thank you.
Philips put the $60-bulb on sale yesterday, which was also Earth Day, of course. The bulb uses LED — otherwise known as light-emitting diodes — to light things up, instead of filaments, reports BBC News.
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Goody for you. You live your life I’ll live mine. Smiles
Don’t knock over the lamp
We had the same experience. After dad passed away we went through his house and replaced them all with regular light bulbs which are just fine and much better light.
You’re right. I estimated that I would start saving money after about 5 to 8 years.
$10....maybe
$60.....Nicht...nein....no!
Lemme see, if you’re average regular bulb costs you $1 (it doesn’t, it’s cheaper than that), you would have to change the bulb three times a year to be cost effective. The crap they’re trying to sell us is absurd.
I like icecream too - Butter Pecan Swirl.
Green, schmeen. I don’t care either way. If I can get a light bulb that lowers my bills and puts out far less heat in the summer, I’m good with that.
I just demand a certain quality of light, and free light bulbs and free electricity won’t get me to put in lights that are blinding glaring white that I hate. I demand that warm yellow light quality that soft white incandescents display. If you say I can get that from these, then I’ll try one out.
We put in LEDs for the long life, since our ceiling is 22 ft high. They’re still working after 3 years, but growing dim, very fast over the last few months.
You are correct about the fact they do generate a little heat. Mostly on the base, and the heat isn’t nowhere near as much as a regular bulb, as it is pretty much localized to the base. If one has ever gotten hot enough to actually ignite something, I’m not aware of it. Now, on those recessed fixtures, I have 4 in my living area, and they have never worked correctly. even with 40 watt standard bulbs, after they have been on about 10 minutes they start tripping the heat switches. All 4 of them do it, I ‘ve never tried to fix them ,I just use the ceiling fan lamps in that room.
I think, in the long run, the lower electricity bills will justify the use of the LED bulbs. They have some things that could be improved on, and of course, convincing people that they might just be a good thing after the mediocre performance of most CFL’s will be a challenge, too.
OK, I’ve done a bit of a search and so far I’m not finding any TCP Par38 LED or Par30 bulbs with a color temperature of below 3000. They seem to be at 3000 when I like light below 2700. It just makes a big difference to my eyes.
Maybe someday they will get down to the color temperature I’m looking for. I can still get one just to see how it looks, but it seems to white for my preference.
Thanks though.
An LED flashlight which costs aroud ten bucks is way better than incandescents for inspecting welds - flaws stick out like a sore thumb. I won’t buy them for the house until they are way cheaper than they are now though.
We got one for a gift. It is not as good as our regular flash lights. We threw it in the back of the junk drawer so we didn’t get it confused with the good ones.
“It will last for 20 years?
So they have had one for 20 years in use and it lasted that long?”
Nailed.
Just like the rechargeable batteries that “can be renewed over 1000 times”.
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