Comments on: How many light bulbs are in your home?

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:17:25 +0000

Would apprecitae details of your new LEDs & when they will be available

By: DR

DR — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:06:09 +0000

Green Consumer, I'm not familiar with LEDLight.com, but I suspect they are just a reseller of bulbs. Maybe you just got some bad bulbs, but I find it hard to believe that they are intentionally shipping defective bulbs. Anyway, two great low cost options are to buy from Amazon (Amazon's LED Light Bulb page) or eBay (eBay LED Light Bulb page).

By: Green Consumer

Green Consumer — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:56:45 +0000

I am a big fan of LED lighting. Choose a bulb that fits the application (lumens and color) and you will be happy. Unfortunatly many manufacturers and vendors overstate (I’m being kind here) their products specifications.

I have purchased 45 LED bulbs and have had mixed reliability.
The good news – some are very reliable. I have five LED bulbs outside that have run dusk to dawn for two years with no problems.
The bad news – some bulbs are VERY unreliable. VERY high failure rates.
I purchased 12 LED bulbs and 7 have failed (8.5W product 47856 from LEDLight.com). To make matters worse they are refusing to replace them now.
Beware of LEDLight.com. This company is selling products that they know are defective. No support for failed LED bulbs. These bulbs are very expensive ($20 – $105) and in some cases last only two or three weeks. They refuse to replace defective bulbs. LEDLight.com is selling known defective products and has bad customer service.

By: XanARu

XanARu — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:33:45 +0000

I can’t share any details yet, but there is a new LED being produced (under the auspicious hold of NINE patents) that not only produces a true white light that can be dispersed in any angle, it also puts off NO heat and can be programmed to produce any strength from 100 to 10,000 lumens. As a nifty little added bonus, it will email you when it needs changing. But don’t expect a lot of emails, this one lasts 100,000 hours – that’s about 20 years if you use it 12 hours a day every day. Intrigued? Send me an email and I’ll make sure you get the details when it’s available to the public – which is technically now if you’re a wholesaler or buying for a commercial project.

By: John

John — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:41:14 +0000

I recently replaced all of the bulbs in my entire house with CFLs. We have exposed bulbs in the bathrooms and the swirly CFLs just didn’t look right, so we got the CFLs with the glass covering that looks like a traditional bulb. For some reason, those bulbs take a bit to warm up and are pretty dim when first turned on. We’ve actually found that to our advantage in the bathrooms. In the mornings and in the middle of the night if someone needs to go to the bathroom, when they flip the switch, they aren’t bombarded with light from the three bulbs right away. It’s fairly dim and slowly gets brighter. It’s a nice transition when coming in from the dark. Of course, it’s a disadvantage when you need that light to pull a splinter in the middle of the day. You have to wait for the lights to warm up before getting the necessary light.

By: RateNerd

RateNerd — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:48:45 +0000

I have been following the “replace incandescents with CFL’s when they go out” strategy for a while now, and so far so good. However, I find that CFL’s designed to replace flood lights in recessed lighting situations just don’t cut it. Too slow to warm up.

By: Led Master

Led Master — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:31:20 +0000

Sam’s Club now sells LEDs.
2 40 watt Par type bulbs for about $15 so that is less than $8 per bulb.
The price is dropping and LEDs don’t have the dangerous and poisonous
mercury that CFLs do.
They also sell LED night lights, and other LEDs for outside lights.
At this current price they pay for themselves in about 1 year or less. They
are rated at 30,000 hours.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:26:51 +0000

It is great to see information that helps the planet. I have heard that if everyone in the US replaced thier light bulbs with CFL or LED we could close down ALL the coal burning plants in the country. WOW. I really do not like the color of CFL nor the price of LEDs, though I did find a several price effective web sites for LEDs. One, has some bulbs for much less than the $40 stated here. I actually got a bulb with a remote control and it displays 15 colors and dims for less than $32. Cool for parties in my dorm. There is a wake up call that this planet needs to hear to become more sustainable, and if it takes a Law to wake up our citizens then so be it.