09-07-2014, 07:14 AM
I still waiting for the 100W equivalents to see some price cuts.
My utility doesn't subsidize the Cree bulbs, so when I found myself inside a Home Despot while away on vacation, I was kinda tempted to pick up one or two at half the price.
Aside from a Philips CFL that I paid $15 for, and still needed to have warrantied prematurely, I have yet to have a CFL meet its expected lifetime rating, or last appreciably longer than a plain old bulb.
I'm afraid that these LED replacements will be the same way, and aside from energy consumption, these new types of lights are at a disadvantage to the old incandescents in every other respect, while adding some annoyances of their own.
My utility doesn't subsidize the Cree bulbs, so when I found myself inside a Home Despot while away on vacation, I was kinda tempted to pick up one or two at half the price.
Aside from a Philips CFL that I paid $15 for, and still needed to have warrantied prematurely, I have yet to have a CFL meet its expected lifetime rating, or last appreciably longer than a plain old bulb.
I'm afraid that these LED replacements will be the same way, and aside from energy consumption, these new types of lights are at a disadvantage to the old incandescents in every other respect, while adding some annoyances of their own.