Posted on 02/06/2013 11:03:50 AM PST by null and void
I have a couple of hard-to-reach fixtures for which I will happily pay a premium for longer-lived bulbs. I switched to CFLs long before big brother told me to. I replaced the first one with a LED bulb six months ago. Would’ve done it sooner but the lumens were still too low. A 60 watt incandescent equivalent finally arrived in my neighborhood hardware store last fall, and the clerks tell me they fly off the shelf as fast as they come in. It seems I’m not the only cranky old man who will be happy if he never has to change another high light.
That’s why I stopped at 3.8 years originally.
These really save a ton of money on power costs. In addition to using these in lamps and ceiling lights we bought forty par 38 equivalent LED's for our museum replacing all of the 75 and 90 watt halogen's. Our $500 light bill went to $200. Now after three years none have failed. A savings of $300 monthly for 36 months? Do the math.... We spent $40 each. I suspect they will last ten-fifteen years.
I look forward to trying out these new products as well.
Are you sure that it is significant enough to consider? But moreover what about heating savings in the winter? And wouldn't hot weather which needs AC be correlated with more sunshine and thus less need to have the light on...so perhaps the incandescent bulb is on more often when the building has the heating system going than when it has the ac going.
That first photo looks exactly like it was cobbled together out of pegboard.
Maybe some places. Not where I live.
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