Another one in praise of LED lights.

[ebikeerwidnes]

We certainly have LED bulbs here that have loasted over 5 years
these days I just don;t need to replace them - they never blow

(bet one will tonight now - after that!)

 

[presta]

I put a CFL in the lounge in 2006 because that's the quickest to pay for itself, and intended to replace the rest of the tungsten ones as and when they failed. The problem was that they never did. The CFLs kept failing, some in as little as a few months, but I've only had one tungsten fail in the last 25 years. After a few years I replaced another three of the quick to pay ones, and switched to LED, but it's only quite recently that I bothered changing any of the ones that'll never pay for themselves, and even now there are a few tungsten in places like the loft and patio lamp.

 

[steveindenmark]

It appears in Denmark that many people have decided to leave their LED christmas lights hanging outside their houses to act as security lights. Its not just one or two houses, there are many of them. It adds an extra layer of 'Hygge'.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

If that is the case then the wrong LED lamps are being used.

Mine are neither too bright or too cold, instead they sit in what I consider to be the Goldilocks zone.

You may well be right.

We have some very warm, low lumens LED's in the kitchen and they are just right.

Dining in a friends conservatory a few months back it was like being in a floodlight football stadium.

And as for ultra-bright restaurants - yuk! We steer well clear. We just want soft romantic lighting.