LED Light bulbs?

[schocker]

Dumb question. My garage has two really high up 60w bulbs for now. Can I use the 100w equivalent bulbs to replace these to put some more light into the garage? Cree 18w daylight is what I am looking at. I know the bulb is bigger but that doesn't matter as there is no enclosure.

[Tik-Tok]

Yes. The Cree 100w are awesome, I put them in enclosed fixtures with no problems. The transformer still doesn't get near as hot as a regular 100w bulb.

[schocker]

Awesome thanks. Finally I will be able to work in the garage at night

[Darell_n]

I've been looking to replace six 8ft T12 lamps, in my garage, with LED and finally bit the bullet. Total cost was around $100 for five single lamp $1 fixtures with Y splitters and the crappy $9 Phillips flat 60W equivalent bulbs. Re-used an old track light stuffed with more of the same LED bulbs for around 20,000 total lumens of instant light in a cold garage. Looks goofy, but man I hated those old T12s. I almost need sunglasses in there now. (the other 1/2 of the garage has T12 HOs and several sealed T5 fixtures)

[cidley69]

Anyone know local source for par 16, E26 led bulbs?

[Cos]

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[cidley69]

Deerfoot Meadows Costco is selling Luminous GU10 LED bulbs for $7.50


Dimmable and 3000k

[JustinMCS]

I'm having issues with the dimmable LEDs "buzzing" on a dimmer switch even at full brightness. The Slimline LED phillips are the worst, their more expensive 100 watt bulbs still do it (25 bucks ea!) and the best ones I've used are the Great Value (walmart 60 watt replacements.)

Can you believe that?

[cidley69]

Anyone tried the Costco Luminus GU10 LEDs and have review?

[Alterac]

You need a newer/specific models of Dimmers to do it without Buzzing.

Each bulb, also has a recommended list of switches
- Cree for example: http://creebulb.com/Content/download...patibility.pdf

Each switch, has a list of bulbs it supports.

Switch like this one:
Lutron Electronics DVWCL-153PH-WH

Its stupid expensive, ~$50 ea

[codetrap]

Originally posted by cidley69
Anyone tried the Costco Luminus GU10 LEDs and have review?

I've had them for a year now and I'm happy.

[black_2.5RS]

Originally posted by Tik-Tok
Yes. The Cree 100w are awesome, I put them in enclosed fixtures with no problems. The transformer still doesn't get near as hot as a regular 100w bulb.

I put two of these bulbs in to replace the standard 60w bulbs we got with the house. Night and day difference. Before there was barely enough light to change a tire, now (while still some dark spots due to bad placement of the bulbs in the garage) - it's night into day.

[ee2k]

So went to look at new light bulbs to jump on this bandwagon. Bought my place with coil bulbs all over the place. Being fancy and all I am undertaking dimmers in certain spots, and decided to look at new bulbs since the coils are non-dimmable.

But seriously, $9 for an LED bulb at Home Depot? And it's not even dimmable. Same at Costco, well, cheaper but ... Dimmable ones are even more expensive!

I picked up 4-packs of incandescents from Home Depot for $3 each, yielding a dozen for the price of one LED. Maybe I should buy a few more dozens and stash them.

Can anyone explain to me why I should go with LED or even CFLs? Unless one is leaving their lights on forever (which no one here does,) what's the main driver for going with LEDs beyond the cool and or brightness/reach factor? Throw in calculations and numbers to show me how advantageous it is to do so.

[rage2]

Originally posted by ee2k
So went to look at new light bulbs to jump on this bandwagon. Bought my place with coil bulbs all over the place. Being fancy and all I am undertaking dimmers in certain spots, and decided to look at new bulbs since the coils are non-dimmable.

But seriously, $9 for an LED bulb at Home Depot? And it's not even dimmable. Same at Costco, well, cheaper but ... Dimmable ones are even more expensive!

I picked up 4-packs of incandescents from Home Depot for $3 each, yielding a dozen for the price of one LED. Maybe I should buy a few more dozens and stash them.

Can anyone explain to me why I should go with LED or even CFLs? Unless one is leaving their lights on forever (which no one here does,) what's the main driver for going with LEDs beyond the cool and or brightness/reach factor? Throw in calculations and numbers to show me how advantageous it is to do so.

See my first post:

Originally posted by rage2
they last forever, and I'm lazy when it comes to changing bulbs.

[ExtraSlow]

I do agree that energy efficiency often isn't cost effective.

One thing that I like LED's for is that they produce less heat, and in my current house, I'm running the AC every afternoon for about 150 days a year. So saving a few cents on the energy used by the bulbs is compounded.

Some people like the light they put out, some like to have the latest-and-greatest, and some really dislike changing bulbs.

I have some in my kitchen that were about $23/bulb, and I'm happy with those, but I haven't made a wholesale change yet.

[blitz]

I have about 30 pot lights on my main floor and it seemed I was changing a blub every 2nd week. Went LED about a year ago and haven't changed one since!

Laziness FTW!

[speedog]

We've been converting to LED from compact fluorescent and incandescent as the older bulbs burn out - yeah, the $9-10 for a 60W LED replacement looks steep but they use a tenth of the electricity that an incandescent uses and about half of what a compact fluorescent does. The LED instant-on light is nice compared to compact fluorescents and the fact that I'm not replacing bulbs near as often is a savings as well.

Better yet, the Cree 65W equivalent LED BR30 floods we put in about 18 months ago in an outside wall mounted motion activated fixture have been great - before that we were replacing bulbs every 4-5 months because of vibration issues and these LED's have been faultless in their ability to work 100% in that particular situation. -25C temperatures don't affect them and the instant light is great too.

One has to look beyond just bulb price when making comparisons as there are a few other factors one has to consider.

[mr2mike]

Running the economics in the led bulbs. It's not going to pay out for 8yrs when I last did my estimate. There calculators online to do this if you want.
Really it's the beyond baller-ship that these guys are after.

[ExtraSlow]

If I want to look like a baller, I order double meat on my Big Mac (tm).

[suntan]

Originally posted by ExtraSlow
If I want to look like a baller, I order double meat on my Big Mac (tm).

Fuck, you are a baller. I still wear tube socks.