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Would you buy a $50 lightbulb?

Is there a breakdown? Plus add in probability of accidental breaking. Hopefully the green idiots will buy it and bring the price down in 5-10 years.
 
Yes. I would. Because I always forget to buy lightbulbs and I always forget to change them when they break, until the next time I need to use the light. So I'd buy them, not for the actual money saving, but for the convenience factor.
 
JS80 said:
Is there a breakdown? Plus add in probability of accidental breaking. Hopefully the green idiots will buy it and bring the price down in 5-10 years.
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They could probably make it where you could buy the glass piece separately from the LED piece.
 
Only if it saved a lot more, and that 17 years is deceptive still 25,000hrs isn't bad though that's not that much more then a normal cf light bulb.
Oh yeah and its only 40w equivalent. 🙁
 
Matthiasa said:
Only if it saved a lot more, and that 17 years is deceptive still 25,000hrs isn't bad though that's not that much more then a normal cf light bulb.
Oh yeah and its only 40w equivalent. 🙁
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Not much more? CFL's are 8,000 to 12,000 hours depending on the model. So twice as long is pretty significant.

I was just discussing this with the fiancee last night, saw some when we were at Home Depot. I will probably invest in them when we buy a house. Maybe by then prices will have come down a bit, too.

In 2012, 100-watt incandescents can no longer be made, with 75-watt bulbs phasing out in 2013, and 60- and 40-watt bulbs disappearing in 2014.
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Wow. Didn't realize they were being so aggressive with the phase out.
 
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25k hours?
LOL either they are really overdriving the emitters OR they have insufficient cooling (or a combination of both).

Properly driven they will last 4+ times that long (100k+ hours).

Problems down the road - once the cost of the emitters themselves works it way down then the cost of the driving circuitry will become a factor. Too often this is skimped on and the units will suffer premature failure due to power anomalies that insufficient designs cannot handle. This sounds very familiar as it's the chief reason why so many CFLs die early too!

LEDs have a real advantage at vibration resistance and their outputs can be tightly controlled, etc.

Their future in lighting is bright and will only get better and prices get cheaper. Colors are improving as well too. 🙂
 
Eli said:
In 2012, 100-watt incandescents can no longer be made, with 75-watt bulbs phasing out in 2013, and 60- and 40-watt bulbs disappearing in 2014.
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Wow. Didn't realize they were being so aggressive with the phase out.
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Time to stock up on incadescents?

ELAINE (with little hope): Yeah, do you have any Today sponges? I know they're off the market, but...

PHARMACIST: Actually, we have a case left.

ELAINE (excited): A case! A case of sponges? I mean, uh...a case. Huh. Uh...how many come in a case?

PHARMACIST: Sixty.

ELAINE: Sixty?! Uh...well, I'll take three.

PHARMACIST: Three.

ELAINE: Make it ten.

PHARMACIST: Ten?

ELAINE: Twenty sponges should be plenty.

PHARMACIST: Did you say twenty?

ELAINE: Yeah, twenty-five sponges is just fine.

PHARMACIST: Right. So, you're set with twenty-five.

ELAINE: Yeah. Just give me the whole case and I'll be on my way.
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The price on led lights will come WAY down. Wouldn't surprise me if they were only 10-15 bucks in a few years. Right now my problem with cf is they are longer than incandescents and stick out of my lamps. Annoying since the bulb is not covered and it hurts my eyes.
 
Not unless I absolutely had to, as in if they had stopped selling normal light bulbs. My place is extremely bright and I rarely have any lights on. The lion's share of my power consumption comes from my PC and my home theatre stuff.

KT
 
No, I wouldn't. LEDs give off a vary unnatural light IMO. They flicker too. Not sure how far they've come in correcting that but no way I'd give myself headaches for 17 years.
 
The site also points out that the bulbs are merely 40 watt models at present. Who uses 40 watt bulbs, even in their closets? We need 60 and 100 watt replacement bulbs. Prices of these bulbs should drop as competition increases, especially in light of US federal lighting efficiency standards that start in 2012 and phase out incandescent bulbs altogether.
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Wow, I don't read foxnews, but what a fail of an article. I thought that, if you're reporting news, it's supposed to be objective and not include personal opinions...


That said, no, $50 is way too much for any lightbulb, I'll wait till it drops way down first.
 
mmntech said:
No, I wouldn't. LEDs give off a vary unnatural light IMO. They flicker too. Not sure how far they've come in correcting that but no way I'd give myself headaches for 17 years.
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They only flicker if they have poorly designed circuitry. 😛
 
techs said:
The price on led lights will come WAY down. Wouldn't surprise me if they were only 10-15 bucks in a few years. Right now my problem with cf is they are longer than incandescents and stick out of my lamps. Annoying since the bulb is not covered and it hurts my eyes.
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the efficiency has to go way up because that complicated and expensive heatsinking they now require prevents much cost shaving.
 
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