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JimBollman
May 09, 2016Explorer
When I add new lights I go with LED fixtures because they are not that much more expensive anymore when you include the bulbs you have to buy for the non LED fixtures and then you have the operating savings over their whole life. I also have replaced bulbs in fixtures I use all the time and for long periods to LED. The rest I will replace as needed. Obviously bulbs that don't get used much, unless hard to get to, will stay with cheap tungsten. I will not buy any more CFLs but I will repurpose ones that I have replaced with LED. I did this with some can fixtures in the ceiling of our porch, the CFLs took too long to reach full light output in cold weather and they tended to be left on long hours when we are coming back after dark. I have also converted about half the outside floods that get left on when we are out for the evening or expecting company. I have lots of 4 ft fluorescent fixtures in my shop that will be replaced with LED as the ballast fail because a new LED fixtures are only slightly more than a ballast.
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