Re: Anyone moved to LED Lighting?

[salty@xxxxxxx]

On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:40:42 -0500, "Josepi" <JRM@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
>
>I am still looking for a decent PAR30LN LED bulb that can be used over my
>sink with an X-10 switch module (yeah ..it dims) 1000-1500 lumens would be a
>good brightness.
>

You don't know what you are asking for. Try one of these and you'll
find it is quite bright enough for that purpose:

http://shop.lightoftomorrow.com/par309x1whighpowerledbulbswithulculcegs-p-272.html

...or, continue to stumble around in the dark, whining.