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jema
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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 09 9:15 pm Post subject: Decent LED bulbs?
https://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/green-living-blog/2009/sep/09/led-light-bulb Sounds promising at last

RichardW

Joined: 24 Aug 2006
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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 09 9:26 pm Post subject:

At £25 per bulb I will give it a miss thanks.

Better to use twice as many normal LED bulbs.

Will be ok when they get to the same prices as all the others.

We have recently fitted our first LED bulbs. They replaced 3 x GU10 CFL's (which replaced 3 x 50w halogens perfectly acceptably). I would say that I need to add 2 more to get the same light coverage but that would still have less power uses than 1 x GU10 CFL.

So we have gone from 150w to 21w to 3w (but need 5w).
(oh & I have stopped getting a burnt head from the halogens too)

Price wise I could fit all 5 that we need for less than one of those Philips ones (ok plus fittings).

jema
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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 09 9:29 pm Post subject:
Sounds like you got better LEDs than I managed, the ones I got would have needed at least 5x the number of bulbs, and I think I'm being generous there. Agree £25 is pretty scary But I am tempted as I still run the Halogens.

RichardW

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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 09 9:33 pm Post subject:

Get some CFL's.
(just make sure they fit your fittings as some are odd sizes)

In fact I think a mix of CFL & LED might work well.
(instant light from the LED backed up by more light from the CFL's)

I am trying some of the LED's from lidl
(not the cheapest but I thought if they were terrible I could take them back)

LED's are better for "task" lighting rather than space lighting. Would be good for lighting the kitchen work surface & cooker but not stairways unless you fitted loads.

dpack

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Posted: Thu Sep 10, 09 10:13 pm Post subject:
i will report back once i have the 12vt running the strips of 5 x5 leds in 25's that can be cut, at less than a pound a watt from maplins seen like a good start i will make my own fittings with bits ,solder and gaffertape they run cold so plenty of stuff for fittings

Fee

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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 09 7:22 am Post subject:
It's certainly promising, they'll come down in price eventually. I'm sick to the back teeth of the LEDs we replaced the halogens with in the kitchen, bloody useless as main lighting they are, and in the bathroom. So much that we've put halogens back in half of those in the main kitchen light so they're half and half.

ros

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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 09 8:27 am Post subject:

We replaced the halogens in the kitchen with these

https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/GULED5W.html

not cheap - but so far they've lasted 7 months, which is twice as long as cheap halogen bulbs did, so I think they'll pay for themselves pretty quickly. We have 6 downlights in a 3Mx3M kitchen and the lighting level is good.

For extra I have LED under cupboard lighting - over where I make pastry and sit with my laptop - for both of these it's really good not to have the heat of halogen

Fee

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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 09 8:56 am Post subject:
That's what we used, Ros, but we only have 4 bulbs to the main light in the kitchen. We have under-cupboard lighting that was in when we moved into the house almost 6 years ago and non have gone yet. Striplights!

Fee

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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 09 8:57 am Post subject:
It's not normal that I envisaged a striplight doing the striptease and sang 'the stripper' out loud as I posted that, is it?

Mutton

Joined: 09 May 2009
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 09 9:42 am Post subject:
So was the striplight dressed in slit dress and kinky underwear, or was it peeling its glass casing off?

Mustang

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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 12 10:57 pm Post subject:

anthonywilliams wrote:

led is the most energy efficiency source of lights.for more details please - link removed by mod -.

Blimey! Hugely expensive LEDs there, esp when you add the VAT back on to the prices shown. At those prices, it would cost me thousands to put LEDs in to my house.

Good job I bought my Cree-chipsetted LED bulbs elsewhere, and simply put them in my existing 240v light fightings.

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Hairyloon

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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 12 1:27 am Post subject:
In about six weeks, you should be able to pick up strings of LED lights quite cheap. The dificulty is in finding ones that stay on and donT flash in pretty patterns.

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
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Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Sun Nov 25, 12 11:40 am Post subject:
I bought an LED candle bulb from Ikea recently to give it a try and found it gives very good light - a lot better than their pathetic CF's. At £6 it isn't too expensive especially when the B&Q equivalnet is nearer £12.

Mustang

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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 12 3:13 pm Post subject:

Hairyloon wrote:

In about six weeks, you should be able to pick up strings of LED lights quite cheap.
The dificulty is in finding ones that stay on and donT flash in pretty patterns.

I have one of those, inside of a particularly dark cupboard with lots of deep shelving. It's wrapped underneath each shelf, so lighting everything nicely. But each time I open the cupboard and switch it on, it seems to select one of it's fancy display settings so I get short flashes, long flashes, fades, moving pulses etc! I don't mind as it's quite fun, and still lights up the cupboard. If I need to make it stop, I can tap the contrl box twice, and it settles down to a constant bright light.

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jema
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Posted: Sun Aug 03, 14 7:44 am Post subject:

The new house previous owners were single handedly keeping the electric company in business with their love affair with vast numbers of incandescent bulbs, which we have been slowly sorting, not just by replacing the bulbs but also to light fittings that need fewer bulbs.

Been starting on the GU10's and was considering a bulk purchase, it is notable now on Amazon that at a glance all the ratings for GU10 leds are 4 or 5

Such a massive shift from when this thread was started and I bought bulbs that were terminally useless.

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