Anyone else hate the new light bulbs?

[ultrarunner]

Put in the $13 CREE 60w 800 lumen bulb this morning that I picked up from Home Depot.

Put it over the kitchen table... light is ok, bulb appears well made and it uses 9.5w with a 10 year warranty.

Proof of purchase, receipt required when mailing back bulbs under warranty.

I also like that it has a coating like a shatter proof shop light, instant on, temp range from -13F to 113F and assembled in USA

Light is well centered and color is 2700k

Never thought I'd willing pay $13 for a light bulb... then I also never thought I'd be paying 35 cents a kW at third tier level.

If it performs as advertised I'm satisfied.

Looks like I need a new shoebox for LED warranty proof of purchase and receipts... I do take a Sharpie and mark month and year on my bulbs.

 

[k0ua]

Put in the $13 CREE 60w 800 lumen bulb this morning that I picked up from Home Depot.

Put it over the kitchen table... light is ok, bulb appears well made and it uses 9.5w with a 10 year warranty.

Proof of purchase, receipt required when mailing back bulbs under warranty.

I also like that it has a coating like a shatter proof shop light, instant on, temp range from -13F to 113F and assembled in USA

Light is well centered and color is 2700k

Never thought I'd willing pay $13 for a light bulb... then I also never thought I'd be paying 35 cents a kW at third tier level.

If it performs as advertised I'm satisfied.

Looks like I need a new shoebox for LED warranty proof of purchase and receipts... I do take a Sharpie and mark month and year on my bulbs.

Cool.. well looks like considering the investment expense, we are all going to have to keep track of our light bulbs for warranty purposes. Who would have thunk it!. when bulbs were 50 cents it just didn't matter if one popped early, now it does.

I am still waiting for someone to report on RFI emissions of some of the newer LED bulbs in the HF spectrum (3 to 30 Mhz.) We have some reports in the VHF and UHF spectrum, but I am concerned just how clean their switched power supply's might be having many negative experiences with other consumer switching power supplys.

James K0UA

 

[buckeyefarmer]

was putting up a new garage light fixture. says do NOT use LED, incandescent only.

 

[ultrarunner]

was putting up a new garage light fixture. says do NOT use LED, incandescent only.

Did it come with incandescent bulbs?

 

[crazyal]

Put in the $13 CREE 60w 800 lumen bulb this morning that I picked up from Home Depot.

Put it over the kitchen table... light is ok, bulb appears well made and it uses 9.5w with a 10 year warranty.

Proof of purchase, receipt required when mailing back bulbs under warranty.

I also like that it has a coating like a shatter proof shop light, instant on, temp range from -13F to 113F and assembled in USA

Light is well centered and color is 2700k

Never thought I'd willing pay $13 for a light bulb... then I also never thought I'd be paying 35 cents a kW at third tier level.

If it performs as advertised I'm satisfied.

Looks like I need a new shoebox for LED warranty proof of purchase and receipts... I do take a Sharpie and mark month and year on my bulbs.

Take a trip to Vermont, spend a few days skiing, then stop at Home Depot and you can buy those exact same bulbs for $5 each. Or go visit Obama and go to a HD in DC, same price. Not sure about other states. They say limit 10 but I walked in and bout 24 a few weeks ago.

 

[ultrarunner]

Take a trip to Vermont, spend a few days skiing, then stop at Home Depot and you can buy those exact same bulbs for $5 each. Or go visit Obama and go to a HD in DC, same price. Not sure about other states. They say limit 10 but I walked in and bout 24 a few weeks ago.

That is an amazing price... $5 for the CREE 60w 2700k LED 10 year bulbs.

Can't find anything anywhere close to that...

 

[California]

Likewise. I just looked at the receipt for the Cree 60/800/2700/9.5 watt I bought at HD a month ago. $12.97 in Northern California.

How the heck do you get them for $5?

 

[Gunny]

Likewise. I just looked at the receipt for the Cree 60/800/2700/9.5 watt I bought at HD a month ago. $12.97 in Northern California.

How the heck do you get them for $5?

Me too, I'd definitely pick some up if I could find them for $5! Just checked HD here, the 60W equivalent Cree is $12.95. Guess I'll wait a little longer and see if they drop

 

[walnutman]

I replaced all of my recessed bulbs with LED. Be sure to get color temp under 3000K. Most of mine are 2700K
Cost me almost $1000 to do them all. Love them. One room had 9 65w bulbs. That's almost 600 watts. Now the whole room only draws 130 watts and is brighter because these produce 75 watts worth of light.
I don't worry about payback. It's done. As time goes, my electric bill will continue to be lower and I won't be buying bulbs often.

 

[chopped]

Today I had to put the electrical tape in my underwear.
usually I place the role on the drop lights bulb to heat it up But the LED was a no go.
Oh, did I mention some of the streeet directional lights have had trouble melting the snow from them? The solution was to unstall heat tapes of some sort to the fixture to melt the snow and ice.
Resulting in even more savings.lol:laughing:

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Did it come with incandescent bulbs?

No, but specifically states use incandescent or CFL, and specifically states do not use LED. Fixture came with garage door opener, uses two 100W max.

 

[California]

No, but specifically states use incandescent or CFL, and specifically states do not use LED. Fixture came with garage door opener, uses two 100W max.

Maybe they've had customer complaints because RFI from the LED's - mounted right on the receiver - blocked the signal from the remote.

 

[k0ua]

Maybe they've had customer complaints because RFI from the LED's - mounted right on the receiver - blocked the signal from the remote.

Oww.. that would be bad..I hadn't thought of that. The only other thing I thought of is that garage door openers produce a lot of vibration, and maybe they were worried about damaging the "guts" of the power supply in each LED bulb?

 

[Pilot]

Last I heard, CFL's weren't supposed to be in cans. We did have 2 in the cans on our ceiling fan lights that got hot. Bases were brown & burned looking when I pulled them out after they quit--that's when I heard I wasn't supposed to put them there.

Regardless of where I put CFL's I experienced a high failure rate when I started using them. Eventually I got rid of all of them, went back to 130 volt incandescents.

Was at Lowes one day and someone dropped & broke a 48 inch fluorescent tube. No one treated it like it was a big deal, they just swept up the glass & went on with their work.

 

[sixdogs]

Last I heard, CFL's weren't supposed to be in cans. We did have 2 in the cans on our ceiling fan lights that got hot. Bases were brown & burned looking when I pulled them out after they quit--that's when I heard I wasn't supposed to put them there.

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For cans then, what would most people use? I have can lights in the kitchen.

 

[ultrarunner]

There must be some... I bought my brother a case of $18 dimable floods for his family room can fixtures... I asked why he had to use the most expensive and he said they were rated for ceiling can fixtures and he wanted to be able to dim them.

No idea what they would cost today.

 

[dave1949]

Last I heard, CFL's weren't supposed to be in cans. We did have 2 in the cans on our ceiling fan lights that got hot. Bases were brown & burned looking when I pulled them out after they quit--that's when I heard I wasn't supposed to put them there.

This is the cfl bulb type recommended for cans:

Recessed Cans
Indoor reflector light bulbs work best in recessed cans because they are specially designed to direct the light out of the fixture and to withstand the heat buildup that occurs in these fixtures.

The ENERGY STAR Choose A Light Guide : ENERGY STAR

I've never heard to not use cfl's in cans. The cans should be Insulation Contact (IC) rated is what I have heard.

 

[SPYDERLK]

I put these 100W equivalent bulbs in the garage and I need a flashlight to see.

if any business had invented this product with mercury in it the Feds would have sued them back to the stone age.

When you expect instant full output CFLs come up short. But if used several minutes or longer they compare quite well at 1/4 the power. I use about 600W of CFLs to well light my 1500sqft basement.
larry

 

[SPYDERLK]

They don't last as long as a disposable lighter

I find you need to change the batts to US alkalines right away. Batts included will corrode it up quick.
larry

 

[SPYDERLK]

I bought LED from Costco and use them...

The only complaint is they take awhile to come up to full brightness...

City just changed out all the street lights... 420,000 people live here and they said it is very cost effective.

We also pay as much as 32 cents per Kw

This is the 4th time in my lifetime they have changed out the lamps...

It went from very bright to not so bright and then to energy saver "Orange" and now to LED.

The light pattern is very different... mostly the light is focused along the street and not people's windows.

The exception is the pole at the end of the court... it illuminates both the yards to the left and right like never before.

:confused2: LEDs brighten faster than incandescents.