Posts by jazz568

For children's room LED can be an excellent choice because it's free of mercury and lead.  Breaking a CFL in the room can be a headache to clean up. (Check  the EPA advice on how to clean up a broken CFL...

Great stuff.  Thanks.  For retrofit lamps, big company like Philips (www.philips.com) and small company like Tuwago (www.tuwago.com) put out very good performing products and the prices are very reasonable. Philips has good...

  ralfnalepa  I hope earlier reply answers some of your questions. Another quick calculation on cost saving is this: If you replace an incandescent or halogen light with comparable LED (at times you  may sacrifice...

Hi,  Here is the rule of thumb for calculating the cost recovery. If you have lights at home that are lit 8+ hours per day, they will be good candidates for replacement with LED bulbs. Why? The longer you have the light on per...

Hi BobKart,  Not to my knowledge.  Usually 5000k is for commercial use (office, warehouse, stores, etc.) and their product lineup is basically home oriented. They do have some MR16s that are neutral white but those are only...

Try LEDs at www.tuwago.com.  This is a small company in Silicon Valley but their partner/investor is a very big company making OEM LED lamps for GE, Home Depot, Carrfoure, and Japan's Iris Ohyama.  Their products are solid...

Indeed, many smaller manufacturers of LED lights produce much better performing LEDs. Philips however is coming ahead with its introduction of the funny looking A19 bulb.  Price is still high. In the candelabra category, I found...