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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Ditto what you said, but for now?
LEDs are far superior to CFLs, but the current cost is ridiculous.
LOL!
I’ve been stocking up on 100 bulbs while I can still get them. This is such bulls##it. And, when I’m forced to use the new kind, they’ll go straight in the trashcan with old batteries when they’re of no use.
Some posters on this thread seem to be confusing these LEDs with CFLs. There is a difference—for instance, no mercury in LEDs.
But the cost certainly must come down.
BTW, are these LEDs dimmable?
Yeah Wally, but your age is showing. That was 30 - 35 years ago & if it takes that long to reach the level of affordability that the PC has reached, then I'll just wait until I'm 85 and use my stashed edison bulbs..
LED LED LED LED LED LED LED LED ~ not CFL CFL CFL CFL CFL
I doubt it. LED's dim over time and the electronics will give out before the LED does.
True, during cooling periods. Of course, during periods when you are heating, that extra heat just reduces the energy used by the furnace.
So they are proportionately more efficient as you head south.
You know them best as the little red lights in the control panel that blink on and off.
My understanding is no.
But, they get around this by turning off an increasing number of the individual diodes as the dimmer goes down; sort of like blowing out a portion of the candles.
I don’t know why they are so expensive, except that they are new and not in mass production yet.
LED flashlights are really bright and can be had for $3.50 (Office Depot).
I'd blush too if I said that replacing a 30 cent product with a $50 product is a good idea. Is market economics dead?
Could have been $3.95.
Saw a demo of the new LED lamp that replaces recessed bulbs in the ceiling on Fox News this morning. They are expensive but they are supposed to last 20-25 years or more. Use less electricity and produce much less heat.
Yep.
LEDs really are much nicer. they’ve already taken over the flashlight market. I give it 5 years and LEDs will dominate every lighting application.
However, there is one instance where I prefer traditional filament light bulbs. When a tail light on a car is not functioning, it’s pretty easy to pull the bulb out and check it to see if it’s burned out to verify it’s not a more serious electrical problem. LEDs cant be checked by merely looking at them.
Interesting—thanks!
I have four overhead recessed lights I like to dim when I watch TV—the rest I don’t care about as much.
I could replace all the bulbs in my house for about 2000 bucks. If they saved me 10 bucks a month it would take 16.6 years just to pay for the light bulbs.
At an average of 5 hours per day you would have to replace them in 13.6 years so you would never see any savings given the economy of today.
Now if the Pubbies don’t save us from globull warming and we get Cap and Trade or worse, that could change.
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