Re: Anyone moved to LED Lighting?

["Josepi" <JRM@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There was a person on here (or a similar newsgroup..possibly
alt.energy.renewable) a few years ago doing there own testing and found that
white LEDs were less efficient than white incandescent bulbs. When pushed to
a decent brilliance LEDs had a short life also.


"jcrare" <noone@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> It seemed that LED lights were the coming thing, so I installed several of
> them here last year.  One was a 120V 4W Lumoform.  The others were
> different types of 12V MR16 bulbs for the landscape lighting.  The one
> with 9 SMD LEDs worked the best.
>
> All produced an impressive amount of light for the wattage.  However, the
> narrow spectrum didn't render colors very well.  Even though they were
> supposed to be "warm white", the landscape lights turned our red gravel
> gray.  The Lumoform did somewhat better, but it was a horrendous noise
> source sitting almost exactly at 120KHz.  It pretty much killed any X10
> control on its circuit.  That has since been moved to a desk lamp powered
> through a XPPF filter.
>
> I have since converted all the landscape lighting to 12V MR16 CFLs made by
> Feit.  While they pull slightly more power than the LEDs (5W versus 3-4W),
> the color is improved, and the wide beamwidth works much better in the
> landscape lights.  They also cost only about 1/3 as much as the better
> MR16 LED bulb.
>
> In summary, LED lighting may be the wave of the future, but in my testing
> they did not do as well as much less expensive CFLs.
>
> Jeff
>
> "John Perry" <jpnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> We have just converted our bungalow to run off LED lighting.
>>
>> All incandescent and fluorescent bulbs are out and in their place are
>> 100 GU10 LED lights that consume 3W each.  Not all lights are on at
>> the same time.  I have put them in fire cowls that normally house 50W
>> halogen bulbs, but since these lights give off very little heat, the
>> cowls can be covered with fibreglass and can be unventilated.
>>
>> I'm very impressed with the results and have decided not to use X-10
>> to control them.
>>
>> Comments?
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