Comments on: 11 Ways to Save Energy and Money by Switching to LED Lighting http://www.fluorescentefficiency.com/articles/11-ways-to-save-energy-and-money-by-switching-to-led-lighting/ Saving the planet one light bulb at a time. Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:42:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: seagull http://www.fluorescentefficiency.com/articles/11-ways-to-save-energy-and-money-by-switching-to-led-lighting/comment-page-1/#comment-422 seagull Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:54:45 +0000 http://www.fluorescentefficiency.com/?p=17#comment-422 I work as a Controls Engineer and a long time ago we moved from filament to LED for indicator lamps purely for reasons of hugely increased lamp life. So at home I decided to replace two halogen 240V lamps with LEDs (the compact flourescent alternatives are apalling). Firstly they gave out a very harsh, bluey white. That was almost expected and bearable, but what was totally unacceptable was the extremely short lamp life of just a few months!! The only explanation I can think of is the quality of the electronics needed to convert the 240V to the current limited low voltage required by the LED cluster since the LEDs themselves should go on forever (almost...). So I won't be buying any more for now until I hear of a lot of good experiences. I work as a Controls Engineer and a long time ago we moved from filament to LED for indicator lamps purely for reasons of hugely increased lamp life. So at home I decided to replace two halogen 240V lamps with LEDs (the compact flourescent alternatives are apalling).

Firstly they gave out a very harsh, bluey white. That was almost expected and bearable, but what was totally unacceptable was the extremely short lamp life of just a few months!! The only explanation I can think of is the quality of the electronics needed to convert the 240V to the current limited low voltage required by the LED cluster since the LEDs themselves should go on forever (almost…).

So I won’t be buying any more for now until I hear of a lot of good experiences.

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