ever feel like you've been being lied to?

[solarbird]

So I was poking around for new LED decorative bulbs - specifically, clear bulbs, because the selection there has been a problem for a while, and no frosted bulb looks good in a ceiling fan. Just for example. And I stumbled across something on Amazon, or more specifically, two somethings, both made by the same company originally: LED filament bulbs,

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[quen_elf]

Do you particularly need the bulb to be small? If not, you can get that already.

I've recently bought a 'daylight' (actually 6000K) LED bulb for my kitchen. It's not a filament-type like the ones in this post (I hadn't seen these either - cool!); it's a G95 globe fitting, which I picked because I wanted to ensure it wasn't directional. That's larger than a 'standard' lightbulb, I presume it's roughly a 95mm diameter sphere plus a bit for the fitting part.

Mine is apparently 1055 lumens according to the box, which is right in the range you're looking for (although I think it was sold as 100W equivalent, hmm)... It claims 13W, so not as impressive lumens-per-watt as the smaller bulb here, but better than the daylight CFL it replaced (which had died anyhow). I'm pretty happy with it. I think it cost £13 plus postage so probably about, er, $13 if you're in the US...

And I didn't have to go to obscure ebay sellers for that one,just some LED lightbulb shop website. It is still, obviously, made in China.

Anyhow, kind of a long boring reply but basically, until recently I had always found that LED bulbs weren't available in more than 'tiny' brightness, or were super expensive - it's all changed now. I'm kind of looking forward to other bulbs packing in so I can replace them with LEDs. :)

[solarbird]

I've been seeing incremental improvement i more standard-LED efficiencies, yeah. And the daylights are indeed pretty good - I haven't been happy with CFL daylights other than Ott, and they seem to have gone away, at least around here. I still have a little cache of them which I use in one fixture specifically just because of that.

I've been mixing LEDs and CFLs lately for cost reasons, and I'm a bit glad I've been doing it that way because if we're getting this latest round of efficiency improvements? Then I'm glad I didn't go whole-hog to LEDs immediately. And, of course, these decoratives mean I can finally populate the chandelier in the hallway with LEDs if I want. I'm _very_ happy about that. (I'll use the 2w instead of the 4w (nominal) for there, of course.) All this will mean a fixture that we don't use at all because historically it draws more power than our server room will become usable without regrets! I'm really pleased for that.

(Seriously, this fixture. 3x60+9x25 = 405w. What are you even. Now it can be 9x2w+3x9w=18+27=45w. Still a lot, but _much_ better.)