Re: Anyone moved to LED Lighting?

["Josepi" <JRM@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You need to read the thread and stop babbling junk about side issues.

"Don Klipstein" <don@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In article <RMXVm.49912$ZF3.12539@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Josepi wrote:
>>I see that Home Depot in Canada is now handling some LED bulbs with a
>>title
>>of nightlights or something similar. They appear in the shape of the usual
>>medium base incandescent shape and have a white translucent dome over the
>>top if them. The ratings are so poor they could only be used a
>>nightlights.
>>
>>$30 ea.
>>7 Watts
>>155 lumens.
>>
>>While there may be useful places for these nightlights, they don't look
>>that
>>useful for me. Their efficiencies are barely as good as many incandescent
>>technologies at 155/7 = 22.14 lumens/Watt.
>
>  That sounds to me like the Philips AmbientLED.  There are two higher
> wattages 11 and 16, with much higher lumens/watt mid-upper 30's IIRC.
> And this is with 3100 K color and CRI of 85.  Available at Home Depot
> for that matter.
>
>  Meanwhile, please find me a 7 watt 120V incandescent achieving much
> more than 6.5 lumens/watt with life expectancy 3,000 hours or more, let
> alone the 40,000 hours for Philips LED lightbulbs.  For that matter,
> anyone find me even an off-the-shelf available 15 watt 120V incandescent
> lasting 2500 hours or more producing 155 lumens.
>
> - Don Klipstein (don@xxxxxxxxx)