We bought a pkg of 4 small chandelier type LED bulbs a couple months ago at Costco.
The wife likes running numerous floor type lamps and I balked at the energy use of the standard bulbs.
I believe they are about 4 watts but throw the light of a 60.
Anyway, now we're both happy...she gets her light and I save on our expensive electricity.

On 5/1/2013 9:05 AM, True North wrote:
We bought a pkg of 4 small chandelier type LED bulbs a couple months ago at Costco.
The wife likes running numerous floor type lamps and I balked at the energy use of the standard bulbs.
I believe they are about 4 watts but throw the light of a 60.
Anyway, now we're both happy...she gets her light and I save on our expensive electricity.

Lowes had them on sale last year for $10. I bought about 40 of them. my
savings for a year were more than $300 in Elec. cost.

On 5/1/2013 9:57 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 01 May 2013 22:03:20 -0400, Hank©
wrote:

On 5/1/2013 9:05 AM, True North wrote:
We bought a pkg of 4 small chandelier type LED bulbs a couple months ago at Costco.
The wife likes running numerous floor type lamps and I balked at the energy use of the standard bulbs.
I believe they are about 4 watts but throw the light of a 60.
Anyway, now we're both happy...she gets her light and I save on our expensive electricity.

Lowes had them on sale last year for $10. I bought about 40 of them. my
savings for a year were more than $300 in Elec. cost.

I doubt I spend $200 a year on lighting total. That is 1.5 megawatt
hours here. (4.1 KWH a day) That is a lot of lights if you turn them
off when you are not using them.
The occupancy sensors pretty much insure the only rooms with lights
are on are the rooms we are in.
I like it because wherever I go, the lights are on.
We don't really light our house as brightly as most people anyway. We
use task lighting when we need it and otherwise it is fairly softly
lit.


The CFL's are bull****. I have to run two lamps in most rooms to get any
decent light...

On Wed, 01 May 2013 22:26:35 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute
wrote:

The CFL's are bull****. I have to run two lamps in most rooms to get any
decent light...

====

You're doing something wrong. You can get CFLs with just as much
light as a 100 watt bulb only using a fraction of the power. They
are "instant on" also. We use 60 watt equivalents on the boat
intsead of 110 volt incadescents. They make a huge difference in
power draw when we are running on the inverter batteries.

On 5/1/2013 11:25 PM, Wayne B wrote:
On Wed, 01 May 2013 22:26:35 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute
wrote:

The CFL's are bull****. I have to run two lamps in most rooms to get any
decent light...

====

You're doing something wrong. You can get CFLs with just as much
light as a 100 watt bulb only using a fraction of the power. They
are "instant on" also. We use 60 watt equivalents on the boat
intsead of 110 volt incadescents. They make a huge difference in
power draw when we are running on the inverter batteries.


I sit at a reading desk.. You can tell me all you want that 23 watt CFL
puts out as much light or lumens @.. etc.. but I know what I can see
with, and what I can't...

In article ,
says...

On 5/1/2013 11:25 PM, Wayne B wrote:
On Wed, 01 May 2013 22:26:35 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute
wrote:

The CFL's are bull****. I have to run two lamps in most rooms to get any
decent light...

====

You're doing something wrong. You can get CFLs with just as much
light as a 100 watt bulb only using a fraction of the power. They
are "instant on" also. We use 60 watt equivalents on the boat
intsead of 110 volt incadescents. They make a huge difference in
power draw when we are running on the inverter batteries.


I sit at a reading desk.. You can tell me all you want that 23 watt CFL
puts out as much light or lumens @.. etc.. but I know what I can see
with, and what I can't...

It's the color spectrum you have to look at when buying bulbs.

On 5/1/2013 11:25 PM, Wayne B wrote:
On Wed, 01 May 2013 22:26:35 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute
wrote:

The CFL's are bull****. I have to run two lamps in most rooms to get any
decent light...

====

You're doing something wrong. You can get CFLs with just as much
light as a 100 watt bulb only using a fraction of the power. They
are "instant on" also. We use 60 watt equivalents on the boat
intsead of 110 volt incadescents. They make a huge difference in
power draw when we are running on the inverter batteries.


LEDs use half the power of CFLs They last much longer too. You can get
them to replace most 12V lamps. Do your CFLs have to warm up to achieve
maximum brightness?

On 5/2/2013 2:01 AM, wrote:
On Wed, 01 May 2013 23:25:46 -0400, Wayne B
wrote:

On Wed, 01 May 2013 22:26:35 -0400, JustWaitAFrekinMinute
wrote:

The CFL's are bull****. I have to run two lamps in most rooms to get any
decent light...

====

You're doing something wrong. You can get CFLs with just as much
light as a 100 watt bulb only using a fraction of the power. They
are "instant on" also. We use 60 watt equivalents on the boat
intsead of 110 volt incadescents. They make a huge difference in
power draw when we are running on the inverter batteries.

I have not seen any "instant on" but they do come up in a second or
less


Yes Wayne, what I am doing wrong is not dropping the last digit from the
wattage comparison... it's not a 60 watt CFL, it's a 6.0 watt.. Now I
get it...

On 5/1/2013 9:57 PM, wrote:
On Wed, 01 May 2013 22:03:20 -0400, Hank©
wrote:

On 5/1/2013 9:05 AM, True North wrote:
We bought a pkg of 4 small chandelier type LED bulbs a couple months ago at Costco.
The wife likes running numerous floor type lamps and I balked at the energy use of the standard bulbs.
I believe they are about 4 watts but throw the light of a 60.
Anyway, now we're both happy...she gets her light and I save on our expensive electricity.

Lowes had them on sale last year for $10. I bought about 40 of them. my
savings for a year were more than $300 in Elec. cost.

I doubt I spend $200 a year on lighting total. That is 1.5 megawatt
hours here. (4.1 KWH a day) That is a lot of lights if you turn them
off when you are not using them.
The occupancy sensors pretty much insure the only rooms with lights
are on are the rooms we are in.
I like it because wherever I go, the lights are on.
We don't really light our house as brightly as most people anyway. We
use task lighting when we need it and otherwise it is fairly softly
lit.

That's hard to measure. I'm going on consistent monthly cost
differences compared to prior years.