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Mr. Luddite

On 1/20/2014 11:46 AM, wrote:
On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 10:00:12 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

Next time you go to Home Depot or Lowe's, check out the LED bulbs I
mentioned. There are at least *two* color temps available, one is
"white" and the other is designed to be more of a warmer color.

You could run 6 of them for the cost of running one conventional 60 watt
bulb.

The CFLs are horrible.

Scientific American did an article a while ago about how "green" these
new bulbs are and they fail that test. You may be saving money but you
are polluting the planet. Fortunately it is Asia that is being
polluted
****'m.

We should all be careful of any product that requires special disposal
procedures when it fails. I'll bet 90 percent of the consumers ignore
them and just toss 'em in the trash.

Going back to LED lights for a moment ...

I just came back from our local hardware store to pick up an interior
lock set and noticed they had a new display of LED bulbs made by GE. The
price was only $6.99. One was of a conventional bulb size and I was
reading the specs on the packaging when the store manager came up to me.

The new rating system is lumens, not watts. No where on the GE
packaging did it say anything like, "Compare to 60 watt" or anything.

Turns out the one I was looking at for $6.99 was only 95 lumen. That's
about equal to a 2.5 watt conventional bulb. Worthless, unless purely
for decorative purposes. The store manager became curious and opened
one of them and tried it out in a light fixture. He agreed. Worthless.

The ones I recently installed (Cree) are rated at 800 lumens (ea.) Big
difference.