Cheap LED bulbs: TCP 60W Soft white 2700k 3 pack

[msmy300z]

You guys can correct me if I am wrong but seems like a pretty good deal to me!
I have not picked these up yet but TCP is a decent bulb manufacturer from what I have read. They sell many bulbs under store brand names... Wal Mart's Great Value and etc.
Been looking for LED 60W equivalents since buying a new house with bazillions of fixtures.

At Home Depot
http://www.homedepot.com/p/TCP-60W-Soft-White-2700K-A19-LED-3-Pack-RLAS10W27KND3/204499229#

TCP 60 watt equivalent LED 3 pack and save 20%

Brightness: 800 lumens
Estimated Yearly Energy Cost: $1.20 (Based on 3 hrs/day, 11¢/kWh. Costs depend on rates and use)
Life: 22.8 years (Based on 3 hrs/day)
Light Appearance: 2700K (Soft White)
Energy Used: 10-watts (equivalent to a 60-watt standard incandescent light bulb)
Lumens per Watt: 80
Contains Mercury: N
Uses 85% less energy compared to a standard incandescent light bulb
Lighting application: Indoor/Outdoor Enclosed; Ideal for use in table lamps, sconces, ceiling mount fixtures and other general lighting applications
A19 shape with a medium base
Dimmable: N

Apparently these are non Dimming!

2 packs at $23.99 = 47.98
Add $2.02 worth of extra to your cart and use the code HDFIVE to take $5 off of 50
Comes out to ~$7.50 per bulb before taxes.

I haven't been able to find 60w LEDs for less than $10-12 each locally making this a decent deal.

I can't vouch for the quality of these yet but they are the right color temp, lumen output, and price. CRI is 82 per HD's site and 80 is the energy star standard so slight improvement there...

(maybe that will make the thread title clear)

 

[PliotronX]

Not to threadcrap but am I the only one who read the title as a three pack of Intel 2700k with a TDP of 60W?

 

[trasixes]

Not to threadcrap but am I the only one who read the title as a three pack of Intel 2700k with a TDP of 60W?

Guilty

 

[killster1]

Strange i bought led bulbs for 7 each cree brand at homedepot pretty sure.. if this was cheap id buy ten but id say these are average price. . If anyone wants make money off me buy those ones that are 3.50 and sell them to me for 5 i dont hve tht store near me and forget the name

 

[Samus]

Strange i bought led bulbs for 7 each cree brand at homedepot pretty sure.. if this was cheap id buy ten but id say these are average price. . If anyone wants make money off me buy those ones that are 3.50 and sell them to me for 5 i dont hve tht store near me and forget the name

CREE has pretty much the best bulbs, too. I have a friend who works for Osram and according to him everyone in the LED industry trails CREE (many vendor just opt to use CREE LED's instead of trying to compete with them)

I've had some generic bulbs fail (flickering or blinking off and on) but so far my Philips and CREE bulbs have all been solid.

As killster said, Home depot sells CREE bulbs for around $8 regularly (for the 40w) and I noticed has Philips 60w on clearance (at least by me) for $10, both better choices than a generic bulb. CREE bulbs dim, use less power, have a likely honorable warranty, solid R&D and the materials are excellent (real frosted glass)

 

[hasu]

It am sure people differ, but I would call LED bulbs cheap when dimmable once are priced under $2.00.

 

[Awesomedude99]

You guys can correct me if I am wrong but seems like a pretty good deal to me!
I have not picked these up yet but TCP is a decent bulb manufacturer from what I have read. They sell many bulbs under store brand names... Wal Mart's Great Value and etc.
Been looking for LED 60W equivalents since buying a new house with bazillions of fixtures.

At Home Depot
http://www.homedepot.com/p/TCP-60W-Soft-White-2700K-A19-LED-3-Pack-RLAS10W27KND3/204499229#

TCP 60 watt equivalent LED 3 pack and save 20%

Brightness: 800 lumens
Estimated Yearly Energy Cost: $1.20 (Based on 3 hrs/day, 11¢/kWh

Costs depend on rates and use)
Life: 22.8 years (Based on 3 hrs/day)
Light Appearance: 2700K (Soft White)
Energy Used: 10-watts (equivalent to a 60-watt standard incandescent light bulb)
Lumens per Watt: 80
Contains Mercury: N
Uses 85% less energy compared to a standard incandescent light bulb
Lighting application: Indoor/Outdoor Enclosed; Ideal for use in table lamps, sconces, ceiling mount fixtures and other general lighting applications
A19 shape with a medium base
Dimmable: N

Apparently these are non Dimming!

2 packs at $23.99 = 47.98
Add $2.02 worth of extra to your cart and use the code HDFIVE to take $5 off of 50
Comes out to ~$7.50 per bulb before taxes.

I haven't been able to find 60w LEDs for less than $10-12 each locally making this a decent deal.

I can't vouch for the quality of these yet but they are the right color temp, lumen output, and price. CRI is 82 per HD's site and 80 is the energy star standard so slight improvement there...

(maybe that will make the thread title clear)

You will save $6 as it claims, i have LED bulbs, they have a decent light and a very little wattage. i have other brand tho. but i'd say moving to LED is in general a good deal. You will save what you paid in a year.
thanks for the deal.

 

[CuriousMike]

. CREE bulbs dim, use less power, have a likely honorable warranty, solid R&D and the materials are excellent (real frosted glass)

Yeah, the CREE's were $8/each for the 60W's middle of last month.
Great bulbs.

 

[mikeford]

LED bulbs are good, patience will be rewarded.

 

[BoomerD]

I think we paid $7.99 (or maybe $9.99) for a 3 pack of LED bulbs at Costco. (includes the local electric company instant rebate.) That made them hard to pass up...and only a tiny bit more expensive than the normal CFL bulbs.

 

[Jenova314]

We're in the midst of a major home renovation right now, and I'm in the market for some (30+) LED flood lamps.

For the past year, we've been using these TCP bulbs:
http://www.prolighting.com/led14e26br4024k.html

I noticed that most of the "warm" LED bulbs (2300~2700K) still cast a much narrower band hue than their incandescent/CFL counterparts, and makes everything look a bit off (pinkish). It actually gives me a headache when I'm in the room for a long time.

This past week, I dropped by Home Depot to pick up some of the Cree bulbs that they're having on-sale ($9.99/ea). I got one each of the 2700K and the "daylight" bulbs. The 2700K suffers from the same pinkish hue of the TCP, and makes everything in the room look strange. The daylight bulb's light looks like a CFL, and does fine, if that's what you're looking for.

I'm truly hoping for a "warmer" LED bulb that gives an accurate CRI (color rendering) comparable to CFLs, halogens, or even incandescents... can anybody help??

 

[brotj7]

I'm truly hoping for a "warmer" LED bulb that gives an accurate CRI (color rendering) comparable to CFLs, halogens, or even incandescents... can anybody help??

We had excellent results with the EcoSmart (rebranded Cree) lights in our remodel. The link is for the soft white, but try this line if you have the IC/Non-IC cans. They were a brown box when we bought 12 for our basement.

Our basement has multiple stong colors. SU Orange, Deep Purple, Sky Blue, and inky black velvet on our stage. We are really pleased all of the disparate colors worked out so well under this light.

http://www.homedepot.com/p/EcoSmart...wnlight-ECO-FD6-625L-27K-E26/204412186?N=bm79

 

[Samus]

It am sure people differ, but I would call LED bulbs cheap when dimmable once priced under $2.00.

It all depends. I like never having to change bulbs, especially in staircases, closets, and outdoors. I also like saving about $5/year over comparable halogen bulbs, and $1/year over CFL's. When you consider the average household has 30 light bulbs, LED's pay for themselves pretty quickly. This isn't even accounting for the hidden costs of HVAC in the summer. LED's emit less heat than any other type of lighting. That means your A/C doesn't have to run as much because you have less parasitic heat being generated.

But you are right, LED's will become cheap and the norm just like CFL's did over the last decade. It just depends when you want to start saving money...now, or later. The technology is finally pretty solid (reliable, accurate spectrum, etc.)

 

[SparkyJJO]

It all depends. I like never having to change bulbs, especially in staircases, closets, and outdoors. I also like saving about $5/year over comparable halogen bulbs, and $1/year over CFL's. When you consider the average household has 30 light bulbs, LED's pay for themselves pretty quickly. This isn't even accounting for the hidden costs of HVAC in the summer. LED's emit less heat than any other type of lighting. That means your A/C doesn't have to run as much because you have less parasitic heat being generated.

But you are right, LED's will become cheap and the norm just like CFL's did over the last decade. It just depends when you want to start saving money...now, or later. The technology is finally pretty solid (reliable, accurate spectrum, etc.)

Which means it will be 5+ before you break even, assuming they last as long as they should and don't need early replacement.

 

[Apex]

Strange i bought led bulbs for 7 each cree brand at homedepot pretty sure.. if this was cheap id buy ten but id say these are average price. . If anyone wants make money off me buy those ones that are 3.50 and sell them to me for 5 i dont hve tht store near me and forget the name

You're thinking the $3 dimmable ones from Daiso?

 

[Zargon]

man

I have all 4" cans with R20s in my kitchen

had I realized the 6" cans were going to get the cheap LED love I would have gone that route, R20 is hard to find bulbs for

 

[Muse]

LED bulbs are good, patience will be rewarded.

What's the appeal? I have virtually exclusively CF bulbs throughout the house. They generally cost me less than a buck a bulb, last a long time, are fairly energy efficient (average around 12 watts, I'm guessing). I don't have any dimmer switches in the house.

So, why would I be interested in paying $7.50 for an LED light bulb?

 

[weevilone]

LED bulbs won't be spilling mercury in the house if you break them, nor will they add mercury to the environment if not recycled. They also don't have the issues with UV that CFL has. LED has no warm up time and will last a lot longer under the right conditions. CFL dims over time..

 

[fralexandr]

leds are also more compact than cfls, they'll fit in enclosures that cfls won't.
mostly been using ikea bulbs (CRI >87, ~$11). Imo, they're only "worth it" if you need to replace incandescents and cfls don't fit, the bulb is hard to reach, or you don't leave your lights on all the time (i.e bathrooms; on off cycling seems to kill cfls every 9 months to 2 years, warm up times).

one thing to note is that led bulbs are noticeably heavier cause of the electronics in them.

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/50222555/
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?365869-Ikea-LEDARE-10-W-600-lumen-LED-E26-bulb
it only seems to dim partially though (it cuts off early on an old analog dimmer)

 

[dawza]

We're in the midst of a major home renovation right now, and I'm in the market for some (30+) LED flood lamps.

For the past year, we've been using these TCP bulbs:
http://www.prolighting.com/led14e26br4024k.html

I noticed that most of the "warm" LED bulbs (2300~2700K) still cast a much narrower band hue than their incandescent/CFL counterparts, and makes everything look a bit off (pinkish). It actually gives me a headache when I'm in the room for a long time.

This past week, I dropped by Home Depot to pick up some of the Cree bulbs that they're having on-sale ($9.99/ea). I got one each of the 2700K and the "daylight" bulbs. The 2700K suffers from the same pinkish hue of the TCP, and makes everything in the room look strange. The daylight bulb's light looks like a CFL, and does fine, if that's what you're looking for.

I'm truly hoping for a "warmer" LED bulb that gives an accurate CRI (color rendering) comparable to CFLs, halogens, or even incandescents... can anybody help??

We have six of these in our kitchen 6" recessed cans:

http://www.1000bulbs.com/product/62248/LED-LP15566FL4D.html

Well, technically two of those 15W and four of the 10W versions. We've been through more brands, color temperatures, and styles of LED bulbs than I care to recall, and I'm extremely picky about color accuracy, color quality, and instant-on. The Litetronics have been exceptional for the 3-6 months we've used them. Haven't tried the bulbs on a dimmer, but I have no doubt they'd work, as the general build quality and performance are exceptional (and consistent bulb-to-bulb, even across wattages). Only available in 3000K and PAR, unfortunately-- but essentially replicates a standard halogen color temperature.

The Toshiba PAR38s are quite nice as well, and available in a wider range of color temperatures, but have an annoying 0.5 - 1.0 second turn-on delay. Dims well on a Lutron Skylark.

We also tried a single Philips PAR38 2700K, and were pleased with the color accuracy and quality, but it had about a 0.5 s turn-on delay.

The CREE retrofit bulbs w/trim rings are really nice as well, but pricey-- and the same for Halo offerings. If the direct lighting of PARs produces too much glare for your liking, though, the CREE LR6 will almost certainly satisfy, albeit at a hefty price. The CREE LRs work nicely on Lutron Skylarks as well.

 

[dehemke]

For those who have been using these, are there any real world 100 watt eqv in bulb (non-flood light) form?

 

[fralexandr]

There are some on amazon (search [US]: 100w led e26;search [UK]: led e27 <1000> lumen), though they're pretty pricey. A 100w incandescent is typically ~1400-1700 lumens (US) and ~1300-1500 (UK).
Perceived brightness will be related to color temperature.

The "100w" leds (a26) are bigger than normal bulbs (a19).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-series_light_bulb

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature
examples of various color temperatures

http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=cfls.pr_cfls_lumens
http://ec.europa.eu/energy/lumen/overview/howtochoose/packaging/packaging_en.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incandescent_light_bulb#Electrical_characteristics
lumens of 100w bulb

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Spiffy 3M video advertisement of what's in their bulbs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-84Hq-NsYsQ&feature=player_embedded

 

[brandonmatic]

If you live in California you can now get subsidized CREE 60W equivalent LED bulbs at Home Depot for $10. These are the newer, more expensive TW series that have a higher 93 CRI that meets California's new standards as of 2014. These bulbs have gotten good reviews and look great.

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Cree-60W...ht-Bulb-BA19-08027OMN-12DE26-1U100/204602860#

http://www.designingwithleds.com/cr...alifies-for-ca-utility-rebates-with-a-93-cri/

http://reviews.cnet.com/smart-home/cree-13-5w-60w/4505-9788_7-35828449.html

 

[Apex]

For those of you in SoCal, Lowe's has a great deal on a recessed lighting LED bulb.

Get a 2-pack of Greenlite dimmable 13w LED (65w incandescent equivalent) BR30 bulbs for $7.98. They're soft white 2700k color, 700 lumen, 110 degree beam pattern, 25,000 hour bulb life.

That comes out to about $4 per bulb for dimmable recessed lighting. Not too shabby at all. If they're out of stock near you, you can still order them at the customer service desk and pick them up when they come in.

 

[Zargon]

wow that's a nice price!