Comments on: New LED Light Bulbs Can Replace 100W Incandescents

By: Ivan

Ivan — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 19:24:31 +0000

For all those looking for bulbs, try eBay, I bought 4 with the SMD led’s wich are brighter than the traditional and have a wide range, I paid 17.99 for each one S/included, I’m not going to lie they are as bright as a 60w incandecent or a 18 CFL. But they consume 1/5 of the energy of the CFL, and 1/12 of the incandecent. PD. I’m no the one selling them.

By: vicky

vicky — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 03:29:40 +0000

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By: Vitalio

Vitalio — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 02:19:59 +0000

I have been shopping for one, but they are all low Watt and formed as spot light, not so great for my Post Light. Any advice where I can get nice one that lights up like incandescense?

By: velvet

velvet — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 06:05:32 +0000

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By: Michael Haley

Michael Haley — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:18:07 +0000

Lets keep this discussion going. The last time I looked, almost 2 years ago around when this article was written, the price per bulb was still too much. I thought I would re-visit the idea of changing my home and office to the more energy efficient bulbs and see if I could justify it with the lower prices… they have come down, haven’t they? Where is the best place to shop online for the led bulbs? The more of us that buy them, the lower the prices are and better for the environment.

By: Gary Sellars

Gary Sellars — Sat, 29 May 2010 11:31:25 +0000

This article is really a load of crap on several levels.

Let’s take just the second paragraph: “LED bulbs can also save you money in the long term, because an incandescent bulb requires about $300 worth of electricity over ten years of use.”

An incandescent bulb will not use $300 worth of electricity and neither will one last ten years. There’s two glaring errors and the guy has just started.

My electricity costs me about .14 per KWH. That means I spend .14 to run a 100 watt bulb for ten hours, which means it would cost $1 to run the bulb for 71.4 hours, a little less than 1/10th of the bulb’s expected life. To spend $300 running that bulb, it would have to burn for about 71.4 x 300 hours or about 21,428.5 hrs. That’s not going to happen. Since the expected life of a 100 watt incandescent bulb is 750 hrs., I’ve used not one, but 28.5 incandescent bulbs.

You might say, “What’s your complaint? That means it’s even more expensive than he said to use incandescent bulbs. He simply saved space by not including the fact that you’d have to go through 28 bulbs to spend the $300.”

No, that means the guy who wrote this report is careless with the facts. In one sentence he tells you one fact and two very significant misrepresentations. The other facts he’s not telling you don’t all make incandescent bulbs look badly. There are some facts that explain well why some people are still using them even though they’re more expensive to use. (I’m not one of them.)

To start an article this badly made me not even want to finish it… and I didn’t.

He needs to rewrite the article and this time pay close attention to relevant details because I mentioned his first two errors that occurred in only the second paragraph and don’t want to go through the whole list for you. It’s his report; he needs to learn how to properly represent details when he writes.

Credibility is important and as one man once said, “Once you lose it, with what will you replace it?” Justin lost it in the second paragraph.

By: SAroj kanta Nayak

SAroj kanta Nayak — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:18:37 +0000

its is intresting to see that 13 watt LED can replace 100 Watt in candascent bulbs. But the cost factor is worrying factor . if it will decrese then one completely new chapter will begin on the bulb sector. where all most all bulbs used may be LED and which have a longer life and have highest energy savings.

By: Vicki Terpstra

Vicki Terpstra — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:04:13 +0000

Our main business is solar energy systems, but we cannot stomach installing a system to offset electric usage without first addressing energy efficiency first. LED lighting can help to conserve so much energy that it is definitely the first change we recommend to customers. However, we have also been frustrated with the limited options available on the store shelves, and the prices are exhorbitant.

We’re now dealing directly with manufacturers so we can can offer a variety of product styles at low prices. Check out our site TERPLLC if you want more info.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:02:30 +0000

Not all states are gona ban the old light bulbs. In fact here in NEW YORK CITY, i think whats gona happen is that they’re only gona ban the 100watt and 60watt bulbs. the only thing they require here is that all buildings use cfl bulbs to save energy. i still think that the thought of the government banning these bulbs is unbelievable. If they wana use these crappy cfl bulbs for their homes, fine. but why should we be forced to use something we dont like. this is suppose to be the land of the free which means FREEDOM OF CHOICE. does anyone know i can write a letter to congress about this issue?

By: Ivan

Ivan — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:44:39 +0000

I think the idea of using LED bulbs at your home or office is to help the environment and your wallet. Imagine the amount of watts NOT used by this lightbulbs each year will be traduced to less coal\fuel burning, I think you have to be willing to sacrifice a little to win a lot, If you compare the prices from incandescent, flourescent, and led; they are not far one from from each other, With this I’m not triying to sell anything, and I’m not trying to justify Led’s like other posts, LED is the future in illumination without wasting a lot of energy. At my home I bought 21 led light bulbs and spend $200 for that, I didn’t sacrifice brigtness, I’m very happy now, Do not leave other people scare you or dismiss this awesome technology.