LED light bulbs

[Arch]

We've got LEDs in the 6 uplighters in our bedroom. We'd also left in the striplight in the roof apex (it's an attic room), thinking we'd need extra light sometimes, but the LEDs have got it covered!

We've got them in the kitchen/living room too. Ours were a tenner each from a hardware shop in York, but we expect them to outlive us...

 

[MarkF]

I don't care how much energy they save, they are friggin awful, what's the point of having awful light at home all the time when the saving over a year might buy me a cheese sandwich? I've been though fluorescent, low voltage, low energy (CFL) and LED and hated them all, suffering poor light, shadows (LED's too directional), high heat (LV), high frequency flickering and horrible colour rendering. We are back to good old incandescent where the filament produces a lovely "warm" light.

I would certainly use LED's as a choice for "spotlights" or highlighting, but regular lighting, no way! Tesco has LED on offer at the mo for those interested.

 

[Hacienda71]

I find the quoted lifespan is pretty spurious as this is the lifespan of the led. The ones in my office and the ones at home have lasted for less than the led lifespan as the drivers on some have failed.

 

[Arch]

I don't care how much energy they save, they are friggin awful, what's the point of having awful light at home all the time when the saving over a year might buy me a cheese sandwich? I've been though fluorescent, low voltage, low energy and LED and hated them all, suffering poor light, shadows, high heat (LV), high frequency flickering and horrible colour rendering. We are back to good old incandescent where the filament produces a lovely "warm" light.

Tesco has LED on offer at the mo for those interested.

I can honestly say, I couldn't see a difference when we put LEDs in. Haven't had a single problem with them.

 

[ianrauk]

I can honestly say, I couldn't see a difference when we put LEDs in. Haven't had a single problem with them.

Same here.
Swapped all the kitchen bulbs over to LEDS and have had less trouble. Went through bulbs at an alarming rate. Haven't had to replace an LED since putting them in over 6 months ago.

 

[vernon]

Our burglar alarm engineer spent wasted fifteen minutes extolling the virtues of LED lighting using some back of a fag packet calculations do demonstrate their money saving potential - his calculations were way off beam and the photographs of the before and after LED lighting set up in his own home did little to persuade me to consider changing over to them. His lighting set up was far from typical - a 12 LED chandelier in the living room is hardly a typical lighting rig - you'd need to wear sunglasses to cope with the lighting.

I might consider it once I've got through my stock of low energy bulbs in four or five years' time.

 

[MarkF]

I can honestly say, I couldn't see a difference when we put LEDs in. Haven't had a single problem with them.

I used to be lighting designer, I probably take more notice, there is a huge difference. They light "cool", incandescent lights "warm" (well it would do), therefore the colour rendering of an object is totally different.

I think the economy (for a householder) issue is catmuck, an incandescent bulb costs an inconsequential amount of money to run. They heat your house in winter too.

"Haven't had a single problem with them." And why would you, with any light source? Although The Daily Mail claims that they'll make you go blind. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...ally-friendly-LED-lights-cause-BLINDNESS.html

 

[guitarpete247]

I put low energy GU10 spotlights in the kitchen and couldn't see a thing. I know they took a while to warm up but even then they were so dim. I put in LED's and it really brightened up. We have low energy bulbs everywhere else. Got our GU10 LED spots from Aldi at £4.99 each and had them for 18 months now,
How can they not save money when they are only 1/4, or less, the wattage of Halogen spots?

 

[phil_hg_uk]

Swapped all the downlighter type bulbs for led ones a while ago ( except for in the living room as there is a dimmer in there and they wont work with it ) and there is no difference in brightness at all and I now dont have to change blown bulbs

 

[cosmicbike]

I put some bulbs in one, got some lovely crocus and daffs too.

I use LED lamps wherever I want downlighters, bathroom, kitchen and porch all have Philips 3W GU10 which have excellent colour rendering. They are not far off a 50W halogen in terms of output.

 

[MarkF]

Swapped all the downlighter type bulbs for led ones a while ago ( except for in the living room as there is a dimmer in there and they wont work with it ) and there is no difference in brightness at all

Do you own a light meter?

I use LED lamps wherever I want downlighters, bathroom, kitchen and porch all have Philips 3W GU10 which have excellent colour rendering.

What colour temperature are they?

How can they not save money when they are only 1/4, or less, the wattage of Halogen spots?

They do save money. But I pay .55p for a 60w incandescent, what is the payback time for the comparable LED? How long is the light on/used? And, what is your kw/ph cost? We are talking about insignificant amounts of money to a normal householder. I'd rather have "better" light, that is, light that I prefer.

I'll add, that I am sure one day that I'll change to LED, better LED, or a light source that supercedes LED, if I can get incandescent (or near) replication (light, rendering & spread) with energy saving of course I'll switch.

 

[cosmicbike]

Do you own a light meter?



What colour temperature are they?



They do save money. But I pay .55p for a 60w incandescent, what is the payback time for the comparable LED? How long is the light on/used? And, what is your kw/ph cost? We are talking about insignificant amounts of money to a normal householder. I'd rather have "better" light, that is, light that I prefer.

I'll add, that I am sure one day, I'll change to LED, better LED, or a light source that supercedes LED, if I can get incandescent replication with energy saving of course I'll switch.

Colour is 2700k, warm white. I had some early one's (not Philips) which were very cold with a blue tint, they didn't last long either.
I never pay full price, and found the current one's whilst on holiday, on BOGOF so worked out at less than £3 each IIRC.

 

[MarkF]

Colour is 2700k, warm white. I had some early one's (not Philips) which were very cold with a blue tint, they didn't last long either.
I never pay full price, and found the current one's whilst on holiday, on BOGOF so worked out at less than £3 each IIRC.

I have noticed that LED's are very cheap in Spain compared to to here.

 

[Arch]

I used to be lighting designer, I probably take more notice, there is a huge difference.

So huge that two normal people haven't noticed it at all...

 

[MarkF]

So huge that two normal people haven't noticed it at all...

Oh well, I can.