Re: Anyone moved to LED Lighting?

["jcrare" <noone@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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?