On 3/26/2013 11:00 PM, Nancy2 wrote:
> On Mar 26, 9:24 pm, "Pete C." > wrote:
>> 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.
>
> The only place I have 40W bulbs is in appliances...inside the oven,
> inside the fridge, and inside the overhead fan above the stovetop.
> Where do you use a dozen? I would never read by a 40W bulb....I use a
> three-way 50-100-150 for reading.
>
> N.
>

I have a 40W, floor-standing, reading lamp whose reflector directs the
light to the book and it is entirely bright enough but a 40W lamp
without a reflector would be quite useless.

--
Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

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