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LEDs, especially WHITE LEDs have a long, long way to get to CFLs price points, LONGEVITY and potential brightness.
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To me LEDs have been unreliable and costly, heck I can't even keep SIMPLE LED taillights and even marker lights working reliably for more than a couple of years on my RV.
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My experience with 120V home LEDs has also been terrible, the longest lasting 120V LED bulb made it TWO MONTHS and it cost $20 :M, the shortest has been one week..
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You also can not get super uber bright LEDs, you know something that competes more on 40W and above in incadescent but yet you can find lots of super bright CFLs which are in excess of 350W of incadescent brightness.
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Take a good look at CFLs future, it is EXTREMELY bright...
I'm not totally unfamiliar with CFLs. Rough guess, I'm using about 45 of them.
Response to #1&4 above: White LEDs are already at CFL brightness up to 75 watt "equivalent". Longevity, I don't believe any of those "22.8" year claims for either. Over the ~10 years I've been using CFLs, the ones that burn for hours every day last about 2 years. I'm only starting to transition to 120 volt LEDs because the price, while still too high, is ramping down.
Response to #2&3 above: I'm using about 8 LED lamps in the house, only a couple for more than a year. So far no failures. Using about 5 in the RV, no failures.
Response to #5 above: The CFL future for me is totally dark. I hope to never buy another one. The ramp-up time is obnoxious, the brightness is low outdoors in cold weather, the tubes fracture easily, and there's too much guilt to bear throwing them in the garbage. LEDs are only slightly more efficient, so that in itself isn't much of an issue.
