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99¢ 60 Watt Equivalent LED's??

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  1. hill

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    Lowe's is killing everybody else's price by a mile. Saw the ad in this morning's paper and stocked up big time.

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    750 lumens - warm like an old fashion juice burning incandescent - color rendition is good too. Just 9 watts! I officially declare the age of the LED is here
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    (helps offset our outrageous $12 uber mini can led's)
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    Very nice. No longer a cost reason to hold out swapping out most old bulbs for these guys. Cheaper than the CFL's now, no?
     
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    Can't find the CRI in the listing. Did you find it on the package?

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    Can't seem to find it either.

    Also, just found the model specs - an LED bulb rated at only 2000 hours?
     
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    Don't think so. I've already seen CFLs below that price without Black Friday pricing.
    Ouch!

    Among similar lamps, I'm seeing 2000 hours for $0.99 (Item # 747481), 5000 hours for $1.99 (each, #740057), and 15000hours for $2.48 (#625156).
     
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    not the package - our Lowes had a display set up touting the CRI. Several different color schemes, and how the light looked against it versus other bulbs.
    Link?
    ...... and why haven't you let the rest of us in on your LED find's !!
    .... making me do all the work .... sheesh

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    My biggest problem when they fail (and they do) is finding the receipt and info. Often you have to send them back to the manufacturer and that now costs more than buying a new bulb!

    These are amazing prices, little reason to have those old incandescent bulbs gobbling your electric bill for Thanksgiving. I hope it isn't long before the brighter reading quality bulbs become more available and less expensive.
     
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    Yes you go to definitely gott be organized retaining receipts with long term warranties. . We manage to do that - & some of our CFL can lights have failed, & it paid off. Didn't have to bother with the manufacturer - as the store where we bought them was gracious enough to take them back in lieu of manufacturer.
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    The Best of Lowe's Black Friday - Appliances and More.

    Plug the item numbers I included into the Search box.
    I just did. :)

    I didn't find them until after you started this thread.
     
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    Oh! I thought you meant you saw something on par at another big box store.
    Wonder how much lower these suckers will go. It sure took CFLs a lot longer to come down.
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    I got some nice Philips bulbs at Home Depot around $4 (they are now 6 for $16 until 12/7)

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    but around $5.50 gets you the higher rated ones like this.
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    The sub-$ lamps I referred to above were CFLs, not LEDs. I was unaware of sub-$ LEDs until today.

    I seem to remember multipack CFLs (6 or 8 units) at the nearest Walmart some months ago, possibly still subsidized by the area utilities, priced at under a dollar per unit. And that wasn't the first such sighting.

    Whether due to friendlier characteristics, greater energy consciousness, legislated obsolescence of standard incandescents (overseas before the U.S.) or something else, LED volumes do seem to have taken off, and prices fallen, more quickly than did CFLs. The higher volume helps drive the economies of scale. Chicken / egg issue?
     
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    Seems they are finding cheaper ways to make them, as the more expensive early Philips LED bulbs still seem to be more expensive.
     
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    I've seen price improvements in just about every LED bulb category for the last few years. These standard bulbs seem to have had the best gains so far, but as noted, the higher quality bulbs costs are coming down more slowly.

    Also, would be nice to really knock the price down to a similar level on high lumen output candelabra base LEDs (60W equivalent) and others like BR30 and tube lights for garages/commercial/industrial applications. Many of us have some of these guys in/around our homes.
     
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    The listed life expectancies have shortened considerably, betraying reduced thermal management on the new cheaper designs.
     
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    I think it might just be that it's the old adage ... "you get what you pay for". The higher lumen/higher warranty LED's can easily run $12/each. It's harder to include a decent heat sink inside the compact/little LED bulbs, which only adds to the bulbs' cost.
    still -
    CFL - or LED's rated 'only' 2,000 hours ... If your lamp died EXACTLY on the day of warranty's end .... running 2hrs, 5days/week, 50 weeks/yr, you'd still get 4 years of use. That's a random amount of days and weeks per year, but it just seemed on the way heavy usage side. That's a lot more than we use most of our lamps, except our office LED can lights. Using that many hours and weeks per year? Still getting 4 years? I can live with that for 99¢ Any hours above & beyond the warranty (often they'll still go for a bit more time) that's just a bit more goodness.
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    Plus, unlike many CFL lamps versus LED's the LED's are mercury free as far as I've seen - always a nice collateral side benefit, besides the low 9 watt consumption. who knows ... the next gen may likely be cheaper and longer lasting. for now - still - not too bad.
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    I may go out and buy some bulbs today.

    We need to rework our outlets to be proper for LEDs, and then the price will drop even faster. No reason for the expense of a socket compatable bulb.

    Rediculous of the US to outlaw incandescents. These LEDs will wipe out florescence for much of home lighting in the next decade. The quality of the light of the more expensive bulbs is just so much better.