Philips LED 60W 4-pk $3.97

[allisolm]

Home Depot has the Philips 4-pk of 60W LED soft white bulbs today (3/31) only for $3.97 while supplies last.
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Philips-...te-A19-LED-Light-Bulb-4-Pack-460311/206557690


The 60W Equivalent Daylight A19 LED Light Bulb (4-Pack) is $4.97.
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Philips-...ht-A19-LED-Light-Bulb-4-Pack-460329/206557595

 

[Mike64]

Home Depot has the Philips 4-pk of 60W LED soft white bulbs today (3/31) only for $3.97 while supplies last.
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Philips-...te-A19-LED-Light-Bulb-4-Pack-460311/206557690


The 60W Equivalent Daylight A19 LED Light Bulb (4-Pack) is $4.97.
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Philips-...ht-A19-LED-Light-Bulb-4-Pack-460329/206557595

Thanks for posting. I've been meaning to return some other things, this should motivate me to finally get that taken care. Unfortunately though, all half-dozen or so of my at-all-local HDs are showing "limited availability" on the website, so I guess it'll be a crapshoot,,.

 

[allisolm]

Unfortunately though, all half-dozen or so of my at-all-local HDs are showing "limited availability" on the website

Mine said that as well, but my husband said they had plenty when he was there.

 

[Mike64]

By the time I got there last night (in a cold rain, just as some sort of major transit system SNAFU occurred, seriously delaying both of the bus lines that get me to that store<sigh>) availability of the soft whites (my preference) was in fact rather "limited", but since I only wanted a couple of boxes anyway, that wasn't an issue. And even better still, I finally got rid of the collection of items-to-return I'd been amassing for a while now....

 

[you2]

Not totally relevant but related; I recently picked up some 100 watt equiv led bulbs. They were a bit more than these - i think $7 per bulb but I will have to check the receipt; pretty impressed with overall performance (these are for reading lights not lamps). Now to get my parents to swap out their cfl bulbs for led bulbs (in their older age they get clumsy and i worry about them breaking the cfl bulbs).

 

[Mike64]

Now to get my parents to swap out their cfl bulbs for led bulbs (in their older age they get clumsy and i worry about them breaking the cfl bulbs).

Ack! I truly despised CFLs and so refused to use them, even though it meant paying for more electricity. On the other hand, I find LED-bulb light to be almost indistinguishable from incandescent light, or even slightly preferable, for that matter... I used to use (relatively expensive) GE Reveal incandescents for general room lighting, but I like ordinary LED warm/soft-white well enough to not bother even trying out the LED version of the Reveal line.

 

[Mike64]

Just as a PSA, although there's rather disingenuously no warning about this on the box (just on the base of the bulbs themselves), it turns out these bulbs are not intended for use in enclosed fixtures. It's mostly not an issue for me, but it's a PITA that the warning isn't on the box!

 

[you2]

Do you know why ? Do they generate a lot of heat ?

 

[Mike64]

I really don't know (and I'm too lazy/not interested enough to try find a definitive answer.) I did see an answer posted by a Philips rep in response to a customer question on Home Depot's website that just said it could (or maybe would?) shorten the bulb's lifespan. Which could mean either that the bulb generates an unusual amount of heat or just that they used components less capable of withstanding "normal" heat. (Personally, I suspect the latter.) I don't see how they could possibly generate even as much, let alone more, heat as their incandescent-bulb-wattage counterparts, and it seems unlikely that the bulb itself would catch on fire, so I tend to doubt it's a safety issue (but don't take my word for that!) But with an already comparatively short 10K hour projected life, it doesn't seem worth messing with. On the other hand, at least at the sale price, it's not like premature failure would be a financial catastrophe, either…