Okay, I finally got on board with LED lighting

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I got 2 of these 1 into 7 for my garage. Love them. Just as many lumen as a 4' fixture..if not more.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01I11QZ2G/?tag=hearthamazon-20

My home has been 90% LED for years. You can't beat the LED recessed lighting cans. Just awesome. I have them all over the house and in bathrooms. Most on dimmers.

I tend to use incandescent for bathroom lights above mirrors. The color is just better.

Personally, I don't see the point in doing the florescent LED conversions. Just toss the entire fixture and plug in a replacement LED fixture for almost the same money. It seems like a lot of work for no return. Maybe I'm missing something.
 
When I looked, the price for single tube LED replacement fixture was more than double to cost to buy two tubes for my existing fixture.
 
sportbikerider78 said:
I tend to use incandescent for bathroom lights above mirrors. The color is just better.
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I understand it's especially important to get the proper color rendering for applying makeup or where skin tone is important. Seems like most women at least still prefer incandescent for that. I'm not sure what professional makeup artists tend to use. I put a 2700K LED that claims 90+ CRI over my stepdaughter's vanity and had her look at herself. Skin color looked awful. The whiter one (5000K I believe) was even worse. I imagine it's the smooth energy spectrum that's important there plus people are naturally going to be more critical of skin tone.

But I did get her some 5000K bulbs for her workspace where she does a lot of detail work. They seem to work very well for that kind of space. And they weren't bluish as I had feared. Some years ago I tried a super white CFL and it was horribly blue. The LEDs don't seem to be that way, as least up to 5000. I'm using a few myself over work spaces.
 
Im looking for 100 watt Equivalent LED bulbs. They are marketing everything from 1100 to 1500Lumens as 100watt Eq but a standard 100 watt incandescent bulb produces 1600 lumens. You have to go to 125 to 150 watt Eq to get those numbers. I may just stick with CFLs for awhile. Seems like the price parity stops at 60 watt Eq. I use a lot of these for rehabbing houses. Once im done i usually go with 60 watt Eq for permanent lighting.
 
I'd give the 1500 lumen, 100w equivalent a try. So far when I have put in LED bulbs that are watt equivalent they are noticeably brighter than the similar watt equivalent CFL. Seems worth checking out one.
 
I'm not sure exactly what the drop-off is, but an incandescent is noticeably brighter and cooler when new, than at mid-life. This might be part of the reason for the wide range of discrepancies in LED equivalency ratings.
 
As we transition from CFLs to LEDs, 2 out of 4 LEDs have a very low electrical hum obvious when the house is dead quiet. Decibel level just barely at hearing. The light is unaffected.
Anyone notice this ?
 
I have gotten the hum sometimes. This was most pronounced on dimmable CREEs on a LED-rated dimmer. I ended up ditching all of them after a couple years and when a few started failing. My new Phillips have never done this.
 
Years ago Connecticut had a great incentive to buy Philips bulbs (the flat ones that look like a squashed light bulb) and I bought maybe 50 of them. Then I bought a house in Vt and replaced every bulb in the place. I had 2 Homer buckets filled with incandescent bulbs. The Philips bulbs may be discontinued as I believe people didn't quite like the bulb. However, the design was such that it shed heat within the bulb itself through the labyrinth of conductors and in 4 years I haven't had a failure. My under cabinet LED lighting was generously supplied by the TV show The View. During one of their set changes, I look down from the Genie Lift and see a ton of soon to be discarded LED strips. No dumpster for you guys! I wired it so I get 3200k 5600k or both.
 
When do you open your incandescent bulb store on FleaBay?
 
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Rearscreen said:
My under cabinet LED lighting was generously supplied by the TV show The View.
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Does this make up for having to hold your lunch down in the presence of Joy Behar and Woopi?
 
Cast Iron said:
As we transition from CFLs to LEDs, 2 out of 4 LEDs have a very low electrical hum obvious when the house is dead quiet. Decibel level just barely at hearing. The light is unaffected.
Anyone notice this ?
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I bought a 6-pack of LED PAR replacements for my basement and noticed that one bulb had a really loud hum, worse at some dimmer settings than others, but too much to tolerate. I replaced them all with Phillips warm glow effect and those are great, and silent. The weird thing is that they cause a buzz in a LED shop light in the next room. Different breaker circuit, but the switch is in the gang box with the dimmer. I had one original Cree 60w start to buzz for a few weeks before it died.

I've had no problems with OTA interference despite CREE and Phillips LEDs located within ten feet of my antenna, and even one LED bulb on the same breaker as my pre-amp.

I've got just one incandescent left in my house, excluding oven or clothes dryer bulbs. One halogen overhead can above my kitchen table where I can't cope with anything less than perfect light.

TE.
 
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