Cree Lightbulbs

[Chuckt]

I have a couple of Cree flashlights and they are plenty bright. They also sell these lightbulbs at Home Depot for $13.

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Cree-9-5-Wat ... 1774?N=bol

I don't know about Cree but:

LED bulbs last decades, save electricity, don’t shatter, don’t burn you, save hundreds of dollars, and now offer plummeting prices and blossoming features. What’s not to like? You’d have to be a pretty dim bulb not to realize that LED light is the future…

LEDs last about 25 times as long as incandescents and three times as long as CFLs; we’re talking maybe 25,000 hours of light. Install one today, and you may not own your house, or even live, long enough to see it burn out. (Actually, LED bulbs generally don’t burn out at all; they just get dimmer.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/21/techn ... ology&_r=0

[Garth]

What’s not to like? You’d have to be a pretty dim bulb not to realize that LED light is the future…

I like them, but for just for certain things like the light in the oven that has to withstand not only cookie-baking temperatures but even much more extreme, the oven's self-cleaning cycle, incandescent is still the way to go.

LEDs last about 25 times as long as incandescents and three times as long as CFLs; we’re talking maybe 25,000 hours of light.

I'd say LEDs should last way more than three times as long as CFLs. One of our sons works in maintenance at a school (repairing and installing electrical, plumbing, doing construction, even maintaining the phone and computer networks) and recently got a large box of CFLs that were supposed to last 10,000 hours each. He writes the date on each when he installs them, to know how long they lasted. 40% of that box didn't even make it to 250 hours!

Another nice thing about LEDs is that they don't take a couple of minutes to come up to full brightness like CFLs do. That by itself is something that keeps CFLs from being a suitable replacement for something like a hall closet whose light is seldom on for more than 15 seconds at a time.

We (I and my family) ride bicycle a lot (in fact, I ride about four times as many miles per year as I drive), and it has been nice to have decent LED headlights the last several years that give good light while still making a set of AA batteries last dozens of hours.

[Chuckt]

I'd say LEDs should last way more than three times as long as CFLs. One of our sons works in maintenance at a school (repairing and installing electrical, plumbing, doing construction, even maintaining the phone and computer networks) and recently got a large box of CFLs that were supposed to last 10,000 hours each. He writes the date on each when he installs them, to know how long they lasted. 40% of that box didn't even make it to 250 hours!

Another nice thing about LEDs is that they don't take a couple of minutes to come up to full brightness like CFLs do. That by itself is something that keeps CFLs from being a suitable replacement for something like a hall closet whose light is seldom on for more than 15 seconds at a time.

We have CFLs by G.E. and they are rated at 8,000 hours and that would equal running them for .912636 years or 10 months. No one runs their electric light bulbs 24 hours a day and I've found that I can't get more than a year or two out of the bulbs.

The bulbs behave differently outside in a fixture during the cold weather.