Leds'

[Paul Bailey]

Its been along wait and a few tests, but now I'm finally getting real interested in some of the Introduction Led lights on the market today. the bridge for me has been getting used to the color ( bright white), when were used to a yellower tone of bulb , be it regular incandesant or the many compact flouresant that I have ( close to 65) I have many differant applications so I've been looking for best fit compared to cost of course. Have put in a few 3 watt units and nobody has noticed ( thats good). The one was so white it bugged me so I toned it Yellowish with some yellow stripes with water based finger paint and surprisingly It went unotticed and looks like a normal bulb. Stay tuned as I'll keep posting on this as to what I'm using, and in what application as I get more time to post. Anyway here a couple Pics of some new sharp color adjustable Led bulbs by remote ., and lots of them are Dimmable as well :) Paul

[Ralph Day]

Hi Paul
I wondered if the flourescent led's in your pictures were 4'types. I have quite a few 4'fixtures and think they'd be a perfect place for led replacements. Any link? or are those pictures from your own house with your own spouse showing them off?:love:

Ralph

Have a good summer...how many km's onto the vehicles for various activities?:blink1:

[Joe Blake]

Hmm, I'm just wondering about the long "fluoro" tubes. Is that a heat sink on top? How much heat do they generate???

Otherwise yet another step forward.

Joe

[Rob Beckers]

Neat idea to construct 'fluorescent' tube bulbs with LEDs!

Not to be the lone dissenting voice, but for now LEDs do not quite measure up to compact fluorescents (60 lumen/Watt), regular T8's (85 lumen/Watt), and specialty bulbs such as high pressure sodium bulbs (120 lumen/W). While there are experimental LEDs that break the 100 lumen/Watt barrier, the commercially available ones are under 60 lumen/Watt, usually in the 30 to 40 lumen/Watt range. Their spectrum, expressed as the CRI number, is another issue. Most are quite horrendous. The better ones use phosphors (just like a compact fluorescent or T8) to improve color and be more of a full-spectrum bulb, at the expense of efficiency. Then there's the narrow beam width, though that can be solve by using many LEDs at different angles inside the same bulb.

Don't get me wrong, I am a firm believer that LEDs are the light of the future! They are just not quite there yet, and I want to caution those that see the adds of "3W LED bulb, replaces 60W incandescent". Eh, yeah, it will if you like your light really dim, or like to sit right underneath the bulb.

-RoB-