Re: LED lighting

["AZ Woody" <Reply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How much of the power for an incandescent is turned into heat?  How much for
a bunch of LEDs?


"AZ Nomad" <aznomad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 13:43:47 -0800, Jim Baber <jim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> >Jim Baber writes:
> >They are quite expensive, but seem to be base common to regular
> >incandescent and compact fluorescent bulbs.
>
> >I would wait there are other goodies in the pipeline, One is a new
> >derivation on the LED that uses a LED to excite other diodes on the
> >inner surface of a bulb that reportedly gives the same lumen output as a
> >standard 60 W incandescent does with only 1.0 W of input power at
> >115VAC.  That is much better than CFL or regular LED, but still in
> >development
>
> I find that hard to believe.  Are you saying that incandescent's
> are less than 0.016% efficient (assuming that your superduper LED
> is 100% efficient)?
>