James Silverton wrote:
>
> LED bulbs are promoted to replace incandescent and CFL bulbs and they
> may be cost effective but the brightest ones you see are said to replace
> 75W incandescents, which might sound good but is a most unusual size. In
> my house, I had many 60W and 100W standard lamps but LED replacements
> for 100W are hard to find and expensive. To add insult to injury, sales
> of 100W incandescent bulbs are now forbidden.
>
> It seems inevitable that LED's should be expensive since the diodes run
> on DC and bulbs must incorporate converters. There are exactly four
> places in the house where I had 60W bulbs and I have bought replacement
> LED's for three of them when there were special sales but the three
> LED's cost a total of $50. Two of these are in enclosed fixtures where
> CFL's get hot and have proved not to last well. None of the LED
> replacements have blown in six months so far.
> --
> Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)
>
> Extraneous "not" in Reply To.

I've been running a dozen or so LG 40W equiv LED lamps here for a year
or so now. They are all performing beautifully and based on rated life
expectancy I should have to replace them starting around 2030 or so.
They were about $9 ea in two packs at Costco.