You may have seen my posts in the past about LED lights for your home. I am starting a new thread because I finally got the latest and greatest LED bulb after 9 months of back order. Here is the link to it. http://www.ccrane.com/lights/led-light-bulbs/geobulb-led-light-bulb.aspx
The C Crane website also has a page that shows how a huge power plant could be shut down if everyone used just one bulb in their house.
It is much brighter than the last “warm white” LED bulb I purchased and yet it only uses 7.3 watts! I prefer these bulbs over flourescent/other for a few reasons; they use less energy, don’t have to warm up, DO NOT CONTAIN MERCURY, and last for a looooooong time.
I laugh because you constantly see news/shows pushing the flourescent bulbs.:roflpicard:
I have several different LED bulbs in my house including; flood, reading, floor lamp, recessed, indirect, work, Christmas, etc. Some use less than 2 watts and the “night lights” use less than 1 watt! About 2 years ago I started buying these bulbs and every few months I go to Blowes and Home Cheapo and ask if they have them and they always say they are coming in soon.:roll2: I even went to the local hardware store to tip them off so they could beat the big stores to the market and they were like “yeah, whatever”.
These things are the light of the future and I like to spread the word so you can sound informed about an important enviornmental issue.
They make these things in many, many forms for all lighting uses.
Edit:C Crane is not always the cheapest but they are a great company with good selection.
National Energy Savings
Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, located in Wintersberg, Arizona, is the largest nuclear generation facility in the U.S. is capable of producing over 3,875 megawatt of electricity.
If each U.S. household replaced just one standard 60 watt bulb with a CC Vivid LED Light bulb, the energy savings would be greater than the amount of energy produced by one of the largest power plants in the U.S.
We could save 26,068,180,736 watts or 26,068 mega (million) watts per day.
National Eneregy Savings information based on 112,362,848 households with an average use of 4 hrs per day per household.
112,362,848 Households x 60 Watts x 4 Hours = 26,967,083,520
112,362,848 Households x 2 Watts x 4 Hours = 898,902,784
On some you can see the LEDs. Some shine like a laser and that was the big challenge but the latest one is more “yellow” and shines like the old bulbs we are used to looking at. There are many makers using many technologies I would imagine.
In the mudroom I use the cheaper/older ones because I don’t care how it looks really, it is just a mudroom.
As soon as these come down to a reasonable cost, I’ll be replacing all my CFL’s. I don’t have a single incandescent bulb left in the house, haven’t for 8 years now. And I have had only one CFL fail. LED’s are even more efficient, and long lasting. I already replaced all my christmas lights with LED’s, and boat lights too.
We are going to start stocking LED bulbs at my office. I don’t have the details here, but I can post up info about them tomorrow. I think that they are like $22 or something like that.
A guy I work with bought some LED lights too and the other day the power went out and his LED lights still worked! I am assuming it was because one leg was still on. I thought that was pretty sweet that these things take so little energy that they work with even just one leg functioning.
Yea, I’ve been expecting these to come down in price and be more widespread for a while. I was working with these power LEDs 6 years ago when they were 1st starting to hit the market and were like $15+ each LED. Now they’re down in the $1ea range for the 1W LEDs.
The reason they work when the powers out is because they only need like 5V to work; so anything down to that low the transformer should be able to still power the LEDs.
My old customer Andy with the skyline recently won some major awards for innovations in LED lighting and home wattage controllers at the Earth Awards on Jan 12th. This truly is the next step for green living.
I don’t know him. Does he have a store or something?
I can’t remember if I posted about this before but I also have led lights that are powered by phone lines. FREE POWER.:carnut I had to have them shipped in from Taiwan because I couldn’t find them here in the states. I don’t think Verizon wants people using the power they provide. It is up to 70 volts from a phone line!
It is up to 70 volts from a phone line!