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Re: LED Lighting

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Kind of following this with interest, for the next house.
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I just used LED replacement bulbs that were rated for enclosures. Unfortunately, all I could find were the daylight bulbs, which I don't mind too much, but late at night, I wish that I had more soft white ones.
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Rich Jordan wrote:
JAG2955 wrote:There's 8 recessed lights in our kitchen/great room. When we moved in, they were all incandescent. I switched to LEDs due to the lack of heat they put out. Before, even if you were blind, you knew if the lights in there were on.

But screw CFLs. All they do is suck and pollute.
And smoke, catch fire, short out, and put out crappy light quality. And not last nearly as long as the greenies claimed.

Did you put in LED replacement bulbs in the recessed lights? Or actually retrofit the lights with LED cans? If the latter consider buying a few spares while you can, else when/if one fails you may not be able to find a matching unit/color temp/etc.
The cans I put in will accept any bulb with a standard base (A21?). I'm certain they have a maximum wattage, but I plan to use LED's which will never approach that wattage.
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I was looking for LED bulbs for the chandelier in my dining room at Lowes the other day... They dont have any...
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I'm wrapping up a new 60' x 120' pole barn and we went with LED lighting for the interior. I was skeptical at first because the fixtures were spaced so far apart and appeared so empty. No tubes, no ballasts, no depth to the fixture, just kind of empty. Like a shoe box turned upside down with two strips of LEDs in them.

When they're on though.... Holy crap, you talk about bright. Maintenance is all but non-existent, no warm up time, no tubes to store or replace or dispose of, no ballasts to change, much, much brighter than tubes. This is a win all the way around.

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mekender wrote:I was looking for LED bulbs for the chandelier in my dining room at Lowes the other day... They dont have any...
Sam's Club has them with the chandelier base.
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Rumpshot wrote:
mekender wrote:I was looking for LED bulbs for the chandelier in my dining room at Lowes the other day... They dont have any...
Sam's Club has them with the chandelier base.
Check local specialty lighting stores, too. And electric supply houses. I've found the best prices and quality there.

We have three of those chandeliers. I'm always replacing bulbs in them. I normally use 60W incandescents in them. In one, I replaced them with 6W LED's. They're brighter and I haven't had to replace any. Now, I think the bulbs were $5 or $6 a pop. But I'm still going to replace the others.
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Weetabix wrote:
Rumpshot wrote:
mekender wrote:I was looking for LED bulbs for the chandelier in my dining room at Lowes the other day... They dont have any...
Sam's Club has them with the chandelier base.
Check local specialty lighting stores, too. And electric supply houses. I've found the best prices and quality there.

We have three of those chandeliers. I'm always replacing bulbs in them. I normally use 60W incandescents in them. In one, I replaced them with 6W LED's. They're brighter and I haven't had to replace any. Now, I think the bulbs were $5 or $6 a pop. But I'm still going to replace the others.
If this was not a rental house, I would just replace it with a $20 ceiling mounted LED fixture and be done with it... But I dont own the place.
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Steamforger wrote:I'm wrapping up a new 60' x 120' pole barn
You suck. :mrgreen:
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HTRN wrote:I thought led and fluorescent lighting had comparable efficiency?
I don't believe that's true, if you're counting total efficiency in terms of life cycle cost, convenience, comfort, and joy.
I was talking about watts per lumen.
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It isn't mine. I just ran the project. I have talked to the contractor at length about perhaps building a shorter version at some point in the future. It would seem that the 3 foot eaves, standing seam roof, 6" and 8" reinforced concrete bays, and 4 RV sized roll up doors really drove the price up.
Going with a 4" slab on grade and omitting some of the pricier options could get this building somewhere around $150k.

Given that every manufactured pile of crap made in the 70's around here sitting on a postage stamp of land is running $250k....
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