A while back I wrote a post on how LEDs might suck because my personal experience with them has been bad.
Well I’ve done the research and it seems clear that all lighting will eventually be LED lighting. My father just built a house lighted entirely with LEDs and his electric bill is ridiculously low. The problem at the moment is that there are a lot of poor quality LEDs coming out of places like China.
It is also very difficult to tell quality from crap just by looking so I would go by price. An LED bulb with room lighting capabilities will be about 3-4 dollars apeice. The investement is worth it for the lower electric bill plus you won’t have to change bulbs for more than ten years.
I reccomend Cree Lighting Products, particularly their xlamp series.
Edison’s incandescent bulbs take standard 60 watts
Compact flouesent take maybe half that about 20-30 watts
For the same amout of white light emitted (lumens) an LED takes 5-10 watts
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