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Saturday, June 30, 2012

LED light bulbs

OK, so I'm finally fully LED or CFL in the house.   Due to the energy efficiency lighting grant, I got myself some MR16 and candelabra bulbs among the other bulbs i ordered for the neighborhood.   So i gotta say...they look great!  I thought i might be disappointed...but no!

I posted some pics below.  The MR16 are Slyvania 5.5w bulbs (from Lowe's) which replaced 50w bulbs.  So that's 27.5w instead of 250w or a 89% reduction.  One issue is that these are non-dimmable apparently because they buzzed something awful until i replaced the dimmer switch.
Our kitchen light with the 5@5.5W LED bulbs, an 89% energy savings

Now the other lights are using the candelabra bulbs.  I put these into the chandeliers in our breakfast nook and dining room as well as our entry light.  Combined those used 620W through a combination of 11@40W and 3@60W bulbs.  They were replaced with Utilitech 3.5W bulbs (dimmable!) which now total 49W or 92% savings.  They were easy to install, even though removing those individual little light shades on the chandeliers was annoying.  Pics are provided below.

Our breakfast nook chandelier (ignore the mess, please)

The dining room chandelier.  Looks nice!

3 comments:

  1. This was a good suggestion that you put up here...dude…..hope that it benefits all the ones who land up here.
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  2. Great job. LED and CFL bulbs are really nice power saving options. There is no reason to get disappointed there are really looks cool.

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