LED Light Bulbs

[ken0042]

Just wondering if anybody has used these? I've seen them at Home Depot for $10, and they say they only use 1 watt of power. But nothing on them indicates how much light they give off; like the CFLs will tell you what the comparable is.

I wanted to get a couple to use on my garage and leave them on most of the time; without using a lot of power. I just don't want to end up with something with the brightness of a solar light.

[photon]

From what I've read their brightness is waaay below that of CFLs, which is probably why they don't put an actual lumens rating on them.

There's usually a whole bunch of LEDs in one "bulb" so they'll probably be brighter than those solar lights, but I wouldn't expect to be able to do any work in the garage with them.

[ken0042]

Yeah, my plan was to use them on the outside of the garage for lighting; mostly for security. I can't use a CFL with a photo sensor, and I can't use a timer because at the time I wired my garage I made that light a 3 way switch- thinking that I was thinking ahead.

[csnarpy]

best thing about LED's, though, they don't attract bugs (moths, mosq's, etc..). If you can get enough light out of them for outside - i'd say go for it.

[QuadCityImages]

The ones that are similar in brightness to incandescent and CFLs are like $80, but they supposedly last 20+ years. Still, quite an investment in a light bulb.

[ricosuave]

for $10, why not just try one?

[You Need a Thneed]

We have some LED GU10 (halogen track lighting) bulbs at our office, in fact, my office is totally LED bulbs, a LED bulb that is about 4 watts is about as bright as a 30-35 Watt Halogen bulb. I have ten of the LED bulbs in my office, and that is plenty of light.

They are expensive, but they should last about 10 times as long as a CFL bulb. The ones we have were $36 a bulb.

A 1 Watt LED bulb won't give off much light, you'll want to find one that is about 3-4 watts, if it for anything other than mood lighting.

This is where we bought our LED bulbs, they are out of Saskatoon.

Thanks to them operating a LOT cooler then the equivalent halogen bulb, you wont have to Air Condition as much in the summer.

[Weiser Wonder]

Not really helpful to your question but Radiohead used LED lights for their light show on their latest tour. Really cool.

[Hack&Lube]

Just replace a lightbulb with some luxeon III LEDs