Re: Anyone moved to LED Lighting?

[salty@xxxxxxx]

On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:18:48 -0500, Nate Nagel <njnagel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>salty@xxxxxxx wrote:
>> On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:43:59 -0500, "Stormin Mormon"
>> <cayoung61**spamblock##@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I've seen LED replacments for tail lights. Any good? Dunno.
>>> Would be nice to see fairly priced LED replace for household
>>> bulbs. I've not seen them  yet.
>>
>> A lot of new cars already come equipped with LED tail Lights. They are
>> very bright, and if one LED fails, you still have a lot of light. The
>> only thing I don't like about them on my car is that there is no
>> warmth generated to de-ice the lenses in winter. Tail light lenses are
>> plastic, so there is a limit to how much you can do to clear them with
>> an ice scraper without scratching them.
>>
>
>Right, my original comment was referring to retrofitting
>LEDs in an older vehicle.  Nothing good seems to be available there, at
>least not in a plug and play (or nearly so) solution.
>
>nate

I've seen plenty of direct replacements for 1157 incandescents,
complete with standard bayonet base.