Posted on 10/09/2010 10:14:33 AM PDT by mowowie
Home Depot later this year plans to carry a Philips LED bulb designed as a replacement for the common 60-watt incandescent. The bulb, now called the 12-watt EnduraLED, will be available by the beginning of December and will cost between $40 and $50, representatives from Philips and Home Depot said today. Home Depot started selling a line of LED bulbs under the EcoSmart label earlier this year, which includes both spotlights and general-lighting LEDs. The Philips bulb will likely be sold under a different name than 12-watt EnduraLED, Philips representative Silvie Casanova said. I have been using an early production version of the Philips bulb around my house for the last few days. At first blush, I'd say this is the sort of product that could finally help nudge out the beloved, if wasteful, incandescent bulb....
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I think i'll continue to hoard my incandescent bulbs for the time being....
Same here, eventually there will be a “secondary market” for incandescents and I hope to be a local “dealer”.
For ONE light bulb?
I bought a four pack of 100 watt bulbs for 89 cents the other day.
This crap is ridiculous.
Comes with free illumination.
Went out just last week and purchased $200 worth of 40’s, 60’s, 3-way’s, can lights, clear, soft light, you name it. I’m set for about 5 years.
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Psst, slip me a case.
The idiot writer says we are sued to paying a few bucks per bulb... I still try to spend 25 CENTS per bulb, if I can help it. These idiot leftists will ruin everything.
I buy the squigly florescence bulbs on sale all the time in the supermarket for $2 a piece.
I could give a rats @$$ about “green”....I do it to save money on my enormous electric bill....
Conversation circa, 2015:
“Hey doc, I got me here some of those 60 watt 3-ways you have been looking for.”
“Yeah? I can do that knee surgery you have been waiting 2 years for.”
“Deal?”
“Deal!”
“To hell with Obama!”
“To hell.”
Incredible that a hoax is making an entire product line extinct.
Plus, if one ballast goes out, then both must be changed. Also, if one bulb goes out, it is best to change them all. In addition, I have to arrange for a man-lift to change the bulbs because the fixture is 18 ft. in the air.
Like the gallon and a half toilet flush, Congress has screwed this up.
Where are they made?
Like anything else, production cost will come down and they will become a reasonable alternative soon and a superior alternative a little later, to incandescents and CFL’s. There are savings in the direct power consumption, in the fact that they will last longer and in the fact that they convert energy into light with less heat - which your A/C simply has to accommodate. There’s no downside to this, once the production ramps up and costs come down.
I can remember 8088 based PC’s for nearly $4,000....
Stock piling light bulbs like ammo.
Can’t have enough of either.
From my cold dead hands!
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Me too. I only have a little over 300 bulbs right now. Paid 50 cents a 4 pack for the last 200.
Cool, the price seems a little steep just yet - but then it’s a lightbulb with a lifetime longer than your own.
$40 or $50 for a bunch of mercury to be tossed away, leach into the water supply, and start poisoning people? How can liberals support this crap? Can they not think far enough ahead to see the potential damage from this? Why am I asking rhetorical questions?
I have a couple of fluorescents in my garage that a buddy gave me.
They are super bright when warmed up and super WHITE.
I just bought two 2-way splitters, one for each socket.
Now i have one fluorescent for the bright white light and one incandesent 100 watt for the warm light in each socket.
Now my garage is both super bright and still has the sense of warmth to it.
Worked out pretty good.
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