LED light bulbs
OK!!! I know this has been addressed before but, I need to know there you guys and girls are getting your LED light bulbs from. Any help would be great..
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I replaced 36 ceiling halogen bulbs with China/Ebay/LEDs five years ago for less than $100. Today it would cost less than $60 and they decreased a 36 amp draw (not that you would run all of them at once) to 4 amps. As half times I've had to replace two of the 36 in recent years. It would be nice to buy American, but they are made in China so go ahead and buy from an American re-seller for twice the price.
While you can save even more by buying them 10 at a time BUT I would buy a couple first and see how you like them... I like warm white with as many 5050 LED chips as you can buy. I do have some concerns about the longevity for the LED strip lights. In the bathroom I've used them at the bottom of the cabinets as night lights and in four years I've already replaced them twice as 60+% of the LEDs stop working... in aprox 3600 hours of use.
I bought the connectors for the strip lights and was going to use them as replacements for my florescent bulbs but I'm holding off as there is only a 50% savings of LED over florescent. I did use four of 48 LED panels in one that stopped working and so far they are working OK.
While you can save even more by buying them 10 at a time BUT I would buy a couple first and see how you like them... I like warm white with as many 5050 LED chips as you can buy. I do have some concerns about the longevity for the LED strip lights. In the bathroom I've used them at the bottom of the cabinets as night lights and in four years I've already replaced them twice as 60+% of the LEDs stop working... in aprox 3600 hours of use.
I bought the connectors for the strip lights and was going to use them as replacements for my florescent bulbs but I'm holding off as there is only a 50% savings of LED over florescent. I did use four of 48 LED panels in one that stopped working and so far they are working OK.
