Aren’t we all?
Has anyone had an LED long enough, yet, for it to burn out? My impression is that they do not go “pop” or do the fluorescent flicker but just gradually lose lumens over time. I guess you would be replacing them when you decide they are not bright enough anymore.
welp, I had a few “spare” bulbs (replaced them with brighter ones) which I put in the wall sconces in the hall outside my apartment when the incandescents they had in there burned out.
several years later, they’re all still going. and they’ve been on constantly save for a few brief power outages.
They look nicer in my faux-Tiffany table lamp than those spiral things.
ETA: well, hell. Looks like they have LEDs that look like the old incanescents! What will I do with the 200 60- and 75-watt bulbs I bought?
Picked up two packs of those to replace the space heater incandescents and old CFLs.
Is that made from an old badminton shuttlecock? 
This confuses me as I just bought a bunch of incandescents in various wattages at Home Depot last week. I bought 100W, 60 W and 40W equivalent bulbs. We bought them as the LED ones made an unpleasant buzzing noise in a couple of fixtures when we tried to dim them. We have LEDs everywhere else, but these weren’t hard to find at all.
Are they listed as Eco-Incandescent bulbs? I had no trouble finding them at HD but they are certainly less prevalent than the CFLs and LEDs which dominate the displays.
I’ve had a couple of old Philips bulbs die a premature death. They started going on and off, They would shine at full strength for a number of minutes, then turn off for a few minutes, then turn on again for a while. The ratio of off to on time would increase until I finally junked them.
I have mostly Cree bulbs now, along with some Switch and Feit bulbs, and some Lights of America chandelier bulbs. No deaths yet.
Yes, they’re the Eco ones. They weren’t the most prominent, but not hidden either. I wasn’t looking for them (looking for LEDs) and found them.
fins for the heatsink. LED bulbs put out less heat, but the diodes themselves have to be kept fairly cool so much of the bulb’s mass is heatsink.
I can’t even say how much like I like LED bulbs. They light they cast is extremely pleasant, and knowing that every bulb I install probably WILL last for years (unlike the hollow lies of the CFLs) is great. Most of my “living spaces” are now lit with Cree 60w equivalents, and I’m pretty darn happy.
Cree has a type of bulb 4Flow Filament Design which has the same shape and look of an incandescent bulb. it has fins on the inside with air slots, lighter weight without big heatsink.
My only complaint with the new 4Flow bulbs is that the air slots create a pattern on the inside of one of my ceiling fixtures.
Wolfman’s post (#38) brought back an interesting thought; One of the first automotive applications of LEDs was the center brake light (CHMSL) on a Cadillac some years back. The light is a line of something like 80 little red LEDs on the top edge of the deck lid. There is no provision for replacing them. The thinking is that they will mostly last the life of the car, and then some. If a few bad ones go out, the rest of the light still meets the birghtness/output requirement, it just looks funny. I actually did see one once with a couple of the LEDs dark.
I was about to post and say that Costco has the best prices I’ve found; I’ve had reason to replace something like 10 or so can-lights (R30 and R40 floods) recently that all seemed to crap out at about the same time, so I did my homework.
Costco beat every internet source I could find hands-down.
There’s another big advantage for LED bulbs in that application. They come on a couple of hundred milliseconds before incandescent brake lights. It doesn’t seem like much but at highway speeds 200 milliseconds is a full car length. I wonder how many accidents the extra 15 or 20 feet has prevented. This study provides some estimates.
Here in the UK LED car lights are becoming very common, brake lights and indicators in particular. However, they operate noticably differently from incandescent bulbs in that they switch on/off immediately rather than ramping up and down as old bulbs do. This means the visual cues as to what a driver intends to do, or is doing, are different.
It is also noticable that car manufacturers are playing about with the placement of LED bulbs in the light housings, for example it is now common to have a circular red brake light with an orange indicator in the middle of the same housing. Braking and indicating cues, especially when both lamps are switching, are also different.
It really can make a difference when you are following such a car and not in a good way. It is awfully easy to miss the vital information coming from the lamps in my opinion.