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The best reason to switch to LED lights ... they don't attract bugs!!

One comment poster said his bathroom LED light attracts spiders. That kills it for me. No LEDs in my house! That's all I need is to get up to take a leak at 3:00AM and there's a Giant Camel Spider hanging off my LED lamp, which is right next to the lightswitch. Yeah, GREAT IDEA, LED lamp people! 🙁
 
MichaelD said:
One comment poster said his bathroom LED light attracts spiders. That kills it for me. No LEDs in my house! That's all I need is to get up to take a leak at 3:00AM and there's a Giant Camel Spider hanging off my LED lamp, which is right next to the lightswitch. Yeah, GREAT IDEA, LED lamp people! 🙁
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You can always wake your boyfriend up to take care of the mean, ugly, old spider for you. 😉
 
LED just isn't cost effective, they need to cut the price by at least 4 fold before it becomes cost effective. As it is now, you will die long before you make your money back on them.
 
when i learned about this, i did order a bulb for outside to check this out, unfortunately it was broken in shipping, haven't gone out to a B&M yet to get another

is $40 worth no/less june bugs in the driveway :hmm:
 
FoBoT said:
when i learned about this, i did order a bulb for outside to check this out, unfortunately it was broken in shipping, haven't gone out to a B&M yet to get another

is $40 worth no/less june bugs in the driveway :hmm:
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I wish they would use them for the tennis courts. They literally become 40-50% covered by june bugs during the summer, and it makes it rather odd to play if you don't want to step on them constantly.
 
MichaelD said:
One comment poster said his bathroom LED light attracts spiders. That kills it for me. No LEDs in my house! That's all I need is to get up to take a leak at 3:00AM and there's a Giant Camel Spider hanging off my LED lamp, which is right next to the lightswitch. Yeah, GREAT IDEA, LED lamp people! 🙁
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The spider won't be there unless you left the light on overnight.

Nintendesert said:
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Don't let the price sacre you. It lasts much longer and costs less to operate. From what I've read you save about $7 over 15 years per bulb (this was for BR30 not regular light bulbs).
 
I find them too pricey still. I like the hybrid bulbs that are incandescent and CFL. They finally got the color spectrums right for my eyes, they turn on instantly and by the time the incandescent part wears off the CFL is up to the correct brightness (or almost up there).

Edit: They are Halogen/CFL hybrids in a incandescent bulb shape.
 
The light in the bathroom stays on all night, else the small people that live under the stairs will get me. They EAT you, man. Alive. Munch-munch, gnaw-gnaw like little termites with their tiny, sharp, little-people teeth! :shock:
 
JTsyo said:
The spider won't be there unless you left the light on overnight.



Don't let the price sacre you. It lasts much longer and costs less to operate. From what I've read you save about $7 over 15 years per bulb (this was for BR30 not regular light bulbs).
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That price is even more scary when you say it like that. So I'd have to live till my 80's to get one of those bulbs to pay itself off in energy savings. 😕

That just doesn't seem like a really good investment to me. Especially if those things don't last 50 years.
 
Right now LED bulbs available for consumers offer no real efficiency advantage over CFL.

A BR30 LED 65 Watt equivalent LED bulb uses around 15 watts the same as a CFL bulb. The LED bulb cost around $35, while the CFL cost less than $10. You will never make your money back on the LED bulb.
 
JTsyo said:
The spider won't be there unless you left the light on overnight.



Don't let the price sacre you. It lasts much longer and costs less to operate. From what I've read you save about $7 over 15 years per bulb (this was for BR30 not regular light bulbs).
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This is only true when compared to regular incandescent bulbs, compared to CFL, there is no savings, only more cost.
 
DCal430 said:
LED just isn't cost effective, they need to cut the price by at least 4 fold before it becomes cost effective. As it is now, you will die long before you make your money back on them.
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In some cases they may be cost effective depending on how much you value your time.

Those light bulbs at the top of the stairs to the basement .... or perhaps an outdoor light bulb 10 feet off the ground.....

Rather than taking 5-10 mins to get the ladder out and change the bulb and put the ladder away every few years .... never having to do that could be worth a $10 premium per bulb.....
 
DCal430 said:
Right now LED bulbs available for consumers offer no real efficiency advantage over CFL.

A BR30 LED 65 Watt equivalent LED bulb uses around 15 watts the same as a CFL bulb. The LED bulb cost around $35, while the CFL cost less than $10. You will never make your money back on the LED bulb.
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That's more or less true. Other intangibles might make it worth it for some people, like the faster turn-on time, lack of mercury, longer life, better cold weather performance, dimmability, and more robust bulbs, but as far as pure energy savings go, right now LEDs aren't as good as CFLs. Of course, that will change as they get cheaper, but we're not there yet.

I have 3 LED bulbs in my house: one that I bought just to see how good the color spectrum was ($20, and sure enough it looks JUST LIKE an incandescent, pretty neat), and two that I use for a 12V emergency power system (they were cheaper than 12V CFLs, thanks to the aftermarket auto industry). But I probably won't get any more unless they get cheaper, or someone finally comes up with a VIABLE alternative for a standard incandescent 75 watt floodlight. Haven't seen one yet.
 
I mostly bought ~10 dollar led bulbs from amazon. I mostly got them because they don't put out a lot of heat. I also got white light bulbs instead of yellow, which I like a lot better, but I'm pretty sure I could have found cfls with that too.
 
One area though, that I like LED is for flashlight. I bought an LED flashlight over 10 years ago, and it still works as good as it did the day I got it, as long as the battery is replaced.
 
DCal430 said:
Right now LED bulbs available for consumers offer no real efficiency advantage over CFL.

A BR30 LED 65 Watt equivalent LED bulb uses around 15 watts the same as a CFL bulb. The LED bulb cost around $35, while the CFL cost less than $10. You will never make your money back on the LED bulb.
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I bought 2 LED bulbs for $8.

They are cheap made in China, yes, and about 40W equivalent I think, but 1 year old and still working so far.

The cheapness is quite visible looking at how they are built however 😛 They are both also whiter light, which may or may not be a good thing for some people.

Only reason I got them was curiosity and they were on sale.
 
The CREE LR6 lamps are fantastic. I have a bunch of them in my home and they work very well. Pricey, but definitely worth it.
 
LOL interesting how some people either have no clue about staying on topic or think that they some how sound more intelligent by going off on their own issue. Start your own f-n thread .. oh! Wait. What? The cost of LED lights has already been beaten to death you idiots. But you already know that don't you?:whiste:

The thread is about "why LED lights do not attract insects". Cost? Justify the cost of a bug zapper or a propane powered mosquito killer. For me, I am all about the night light or entry way light inside or outside that is on much of the night. I like the idea of arriving home & not fighting thru the swarm of moths & beetles & whatever else.

I'll just put out there that everyone that comments about cost in these sort of thread most likely pisses away just as much $$ on some stupid thing. Being human is quite the challenge.
 
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