Home Depot Now Selling $20 LED Lightbulbs

[shin0bi272]

I think were missing the point here. its a 9w led thats equal to a 40w bulb. Im pretty sure most of us use 60-100w bulbs in our home depending on location. So you will have to get two of these 20 dollar bulbs to equal the brightness you normally have from 1 incandescent... savings go out the window then.

 

[shin0bi272]

[citation][nom]zetawolf[/nom]Fair enough, I missed that point. If that is true, then the savings become $4.50-4.70 annually. (Based on $0.10/kwh)[/citation]

Your first numbers were still correct because you did them based on running both of the bulbs 24/7 for 1 year not 20 years. Addition and multiplication is still commutative anyway you slice it.

 

[guitarpeggio]

[citation][nom]lamorpa[/nom]Shut the light of when you sleep! What, are you afraid of the dark?[/citation]

Some people work nights. When I'm at home on days off. It's nothing for me to burn light bulbs for 6 - 8 hours.

 

[ananke]

The lighting element would last 22 years...the electronics managing it most likely will last less . The advertisement is correct though, if you understand what they are talking about

 

[Caffeinecarl]

DAMN! I think I got an eco-rection just reading this article!

 

[decrypted]

Okay... what is the amount of energy and waste products that went into making these? compared to standard incandescent or fluorescent?

 

[athreex]

[citation][nom]extremepcs[/nom]Made in the USA? WOW![/citation]

Totally Agree with you. I think this is the most impressive piece of the article.

 

[anamaniac]

I see no real advantage over fluorescent bulbs in LED's, for the time being.
Though fluorescent bulbs do cost $5-10 each here. 🙁

 

[magicandy]

[citation][nom]endoftheline2[/nom]These are LED, they are very different from fluorescent light (probably CFL) that you bought[/citation]

I think zoemayne's point was that we should take what the marketing department says about usage life with a grain of salt. No matter the technology, lightbulb life estimates are almost never accurate in my experience.

 

[xrodney]

[citation][nom]shin0bi272[/nom]I think were missing the point here. its a 9w led thats equal to a 40w bulb. Im pretty sure most of us use 60-100w bulbs in our home depending on location. So you will have to get two of these 20 dollar bulbs to equal the brightness you normally have from 1 incandescent... savings go out the window then.[/citation]
No it wont, saving is still same %. Ofcourse you can also get more then 9w led bulbs but they cost more.
Also led should give more natural light then standard bulb.

 

[andybird123]

i considered going to LED light bulbs, having just bought my first house... but then the local home goods store had Phillips CFL's on sale for £0.10 each ($0.15)

 

[abbadon_34]

so two or three of these to replace the "standard" 100 WATT bulb. Notice how the "standard" bulb went from a 100 Watts, to 60 watts, to now 40 watts ...

FYI, the last CFL I swapped at home depot was $10 (not counting the fixture), and had to be replaced 3 out of the last 3 years. Next time I'm going back to a 25 cent incandenscent or 500 watt halogen .

 

[Guest]

if you're paying $20 a bulb and they last 17 years then don't forget to take them with you if you move house or you'll lose your investment!

 

[Clintonio]

LED prices are on the price decrease, meaning that they're able to target more markets, enabling them to further cut production costs, meaning they'll be able to become cheaper again. Eventually, and hopefully, they'll be viable in all homes. I myself want to remove these wasteful incandescent bulbs, my electricity bill was mental!

 

[hillarymakesmecry]

how many lumens?

 

[TunaSoda]

I'm happy with the 3 cases of regular incandescent lightbulbs I bought

 

[Hilarion]

Since my "actual" costs per KiloWatt are $0.16 as of my last bill the savings would be much greater. All the lights I use right now are CFL which have saved me a bunch of money over the last 5 years. I'm thinking that these might save me more. Have to check them out.

 

[rtfm]

Although these LED bulbs are cheap, don't expect to clean out the entire house of traditional incandescents

Why's that Kev?

 

[sublifer]

Do they work with dimmers? Will that let them use even less power?

I still think $20 for a bulb is a hard sell though.

4 regular bulbs for $1 or a CFL bulb for $5 or an LED bulb for $20

Tough call... maybe it would be useful for those really hard to reach spots so you don't have to worry about replacing them.

 

[Regulas]

Then there is no mercury either, very good.