Shortest one I have seen last was 11 months. Now granted that one was inside an Acme-Gridley screw machine...
why are led bulbs so expensive
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I had some like that enclosed.
But been two years on my Extron Lathe but it isn't enclosed at least at the bottom.
See we are kin...lol
I hear ya. When I moved into our current house it was a mix of CFL and incandescent bulbs. Many of the CFLs were emitting orange light. They were very old. Over time we switched totally to LED.
I've had good luck with Noma brand soft white (3000 Kelvin) 800 lumen LEDs. They have an A19 (conventional light-bulb) base. They're rated for 15,000 hours of use (10 year warranty). Haven't had any fail yet.
They use 9 Watts to replace a 60 Watt incandescent bulb. That's an 85% reduction in power usage. I've paid about $2/bulb when they're on sale.
They use 9 Watts to replace a 60 Watt incandescent bulb. That's an 85% reduction in power usage. I've paid about $2/bulb when they're on sale.
Yeah, my neighbor put in 100W 5000K LED's in the front of of his house. Looks like a WALMART parking lot!
$2 for all the electronics is not too expensive. You can get them sometimes for $1 if you are willing to take the cheaper lower quality ones that last only 2 to 3 years instead of longer, you know, those cheap ones subsidized by utility companies.
That and also the cheaper ones have a buzz likely due to the magnetic coil whine. The more expensive ones have better electronics like the tube light ballast, and they have better base for electronics cooling, and they don't overdrive their LED as much and make them last longer.
You don't pay your electric bill with your own money do you.
In the 90s when we were managing a 3/F apartment building the electric bill (back then was like 6c/kwh) dropped by $100 a month when we switch from incandescent to circular tube fluorescent. The amount of time we replace bulbs go from about once a month to about once a year.
For your home let's say you have 5 lights and you turn on 3 hrs a day each on average, you are likely paying about almost 1 kwh a day just for the light, 365 days of that will be about 360 or so kwh and that'll be $36 a year. Cut that by 3/4 and then multiply by 5 years and you get yourself a few hundred.
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Yep, the bell bottoms of bulbs
I don't understand the hate on the 5000k bulbs... that's the light i prefer... looks like ...natural daylight.... to me anyway...
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I prefer this color where I work, like in the basement and garage. It’s too harsh for night time when a warmer temp is more comfortable on the eyes.
I‘d prefer higher temp exterior lights, but don’t want my place lit up looking like a prison! Warm there, too.
To me I think they look too much like a cold hospital or lab. It doesn't feel like a home. For my home I want 4000K or 2700K depends on location.
Thanks. Unfortunately not getting that price on the website or app.
Here's the link for anybody else trying to replicate:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/GE-LED-1...Year-Life-Dimmable-4pk/55322542?selected=true
My garage lights are all 5000k, which is fine… but otherwise it reminds me too much of work/a hospital and I find the warmer light more comforting.
I find it curious that $2/bulb is expensive . However no context on quantity or anything else you might be inferring to.
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I don't believe that to be true with many of them. I'd say from my experience they last maybe twice as long if that.
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Yep many of them are pure poop.
You must be buying the cheapest ones on the planet, I buy inexpensive ones and they last years. Way more than twice as long.
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