Accidental LED experiment
I previously installed a couple of cool white 48 LED panels in the light above the dinette. It has a frosted glass globe.
I thought that the light was just OK for reading.
Recently I became less enamored with it and decided to add some more panels. I mistakenly ordered warm white. Since they were so cheap, I decided to experiment. When I removed the globe I discovered that my recent feeling of poor light was due to the fact that one of the cool white panels wasn't working. A bad connection in the wedge receptacle.
So I decided to hard wire the LEDs, and go ahead with adding the warm whites while I was at it.
I ended up with 2 cool white, and 3 warm white panels. When I installed the frosted globe, the result was magnificent. The globe does a great job if mixing and difussing the different colored LEDs, and the light output is phenomenal.
And this fixture is still using half of the amps that the incandescent bulbs did.
I thought that the light was just OK for reading.
Recently I became less enamored with it and decided to add some more panels. I mistakenly ordered warm white. Since they were so cheap, I decided to experiment. When I removed the globe I discovered that my recent feeling of poor light was due to the fact that one of the cool white panels wasn't working. A bad connection in the wedge receptacle.
So I decided to hard wire the LEDs, and go ahead with adding the warm whites while I was at it.
I ended up with 2 cool white, and 3 warm white panels. When I installed the frosted globe, the result was magnificent. The globe does a great job if mixing and difussing the different colored LEDs, and the light output is phenomenal.
And this fixture is still using half of the amps that the incandescent bulbs did.
