LEDs vs Incandescents

[Greynomad]

The lights in our (home) rangehood expired last night.
So, as we were off to Wangaratta anyway, we dropped in to the Big Green Shed for replacement globes: two 40W Mini-ES pilot-types.

LED versions: $11.90 each.
Incandescents: $4.35 each.

Given the short amount of time they spend turned on, compared with the general illumination lights in the house, guess which ones I bought?

[Newcastle George]

I went the LED route, $17/globe, for a couple of room lights and they didn't last as long as the tungsten incandescents at a fractioon of the cost.

George

[T1 Terry]

You also have to be careful about "colour" selection. Bright (cool) white is actually blue, hurts the eyes after a while and changes the colour of food when viewed under them and they attract mossies. The "Warm white" looks yellow in comparison, doesn't light up the area as well but food looks a normal colour and the mossies stay away from the area they light up.
As far as paying $11.90 or $17, try Deal Extreme, a few $$ generally and free postage.

[native pepper]

Buy all my led globes on ebay, when first started using them many years ago, some tended to fail, especially in a lamp which sits above the computer at home. The ones in the bus have been in for a decade and none have failed, but they are low voltage ones.

Have found the later ones seem to last and as I buy them in bulk, have had a couple replaced at no cost through ebay. Had none fail over the last few years and found they were failing in the lamp because there was a loose wire connection in the lamp and that's what killed them, fixed the loose wire and all seems good. Went through a few until worked that out. What I love about them is the variable light you can get, soft bright etc and they have reduced our daily energy consumption a lot, bringing it down from over 10kwh a day to between 8-10kwh a day.

Like all new technology, they had problems but now seem pretty good and when they cost just $4.50 in bulk for 15w globes, they are economically good.

Terry, I use blue light glasses, when watching UHD tv now and they really make a difference to cool white light globes, haven't got any headaches from them at all and the cool white is in only in the kitchen. Lay out and colouring of the area have been told makes a difference and my kitchen is natural timber, which tends to soften light in my opinion, can't stand white walls or ceilings.

[T1 Terry]

Ceiling down lights don't seem to be a problem, but close light like a rangehood and under cupboard lights do seem to cause a food colour problem. I will have to try the blue tint glass, I have the yellow tint for night driving and the grey tint polarised for day time driving. I have found the clear lens with the driving prescription seems to work well for our old flat screen TV, UHD is useless in our area because it has to be exceptional conditions for the signal to remain at UHD. Just the standard definition our old flat screen has on the normal free to air channels is bad enough, you can see when some of the female presenters need to trim their moustache The interview in the street with a young kid covered in acne would put me right off my dinner in UHD
Still haven't checked out of the new 8 QLED TV's, not sure I can still see that well to appreciate the better clarity.

[Greynomad]

You also have to be careful about "colour" selection. Bright (cool) white is actually blue, hurts the eyes after a while and changes the colour of food when viewed under them

T1,
That's why we have cool white LED downlights throughout the house — except in the dining room, where we have warm white.
Govt offered a subsidy not long after we moved, so we replaced all the QH downlights (& incandescents, & neons) with LEDS.
Instant difference on the power bill!

(Range hood was installed when kitchen reno was done... after LED subsidy job.
We were not aware they were incandescents in the hood until they blew.)

[native pepper]

Ceiling down lights don't seem to be a problem, but close light like a rangehood and under cupboard lights do seem to cause a food colour problem. I will have to try the blue tint glass, I have the yellow tint for night driving and the grey tint polarised for day time driving. I have found the clear lens with the driving prescription seems to work well for our old flat screen TV, UHD is useless in our area because it has to be exceptional conditions for the signal to remain at UHD. Just the standard definition our old flat screen has on the normal free to air channels is bad enough, you can see when some of the female presenters need to trim their moustache The interview in the street with a young kid covered in acne would put me right off my dinner in UHD
Still haven't checked out of the new 8 QLED TV's, not sure I can still see that well to appreciate the better clarity.

Got my UHD when looking for a HD tv for the bus, as it only has a SD and same at home, but felt couldn't afford big UHD, Had some time to kill waiting for our drummer to get out of an op shop so wandered into HN to check out their prices, which is one place would rarely enter. Noticed a samsung 65inch UHD display model for $1495, which was half the price of a new one, so decided to buy it on one of those spur of the moment whims. Paid up and the staff started putting it into a box, was told to go to the delivery dock give them my receipt and they would give me the TV. Got down to the dock handed him the receipt and off he went, same back with a boxed tv, loaded it into the back of the cruiser much to the dismay of the dogs and off I went. Next morning got a call from HN, asking if I;d unpacked the tv, said yes it's working fine. Then the bloke told me it wasn't the one I bought, but they had given me a new one instead of the display, before could say anything he said, as it's our fault you can keep the new TV. Which brought a smile to my face as when unpacking it, noticed it was new, so very gappy with my massive UHD TV and love watching SBS world movies, everything in HD is spectacular and can't wait until they start using UHD properly. Yep you can see the hairs on peoples faces and everything else, just like being there. Didn't get a small UHD, still looking.