re: LED Light Bulbs Question

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Light Bright: One of the key achievements of the global lightbulb alliance known as the Phoebus cartel was to engineer shorter-lived lamps. Samples were regularly checked to ensure they conformed to cartel standards; this photo shows a testing facility owned by cartel member Philips, of the Netherlands.

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the thin tungsten filament of a light bulb is not unlike a water hose. In the case of electricity, however, the volume of water is electrical current and the water pressure is voltage. With a 60 watt light bulb, for example, you are forcing 0.5 amp of electrical current (the “water”) through the filament (the “hose”) with 120 volts of pressure. The current meets the resistance of the filament, causing the filament to become hot and glow. Over time, just as with the water hose, this stress will cause the filament to break, making the bulb “burn out.”

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As the table to the right shows (from Jack L. Lindsey’s Applied Illumination Engineering), the trade-off is a very good one, too. A very small decrease in voltage and lumens leads to a huge increase in life and a considerable decrease in energy usage (watts). Lowering the voltage only 8%, for example, leads to a 300% increase in life and nearly 15% decrease in energy usage with only a 25% loss in light output!

Now back to the original question: Why buy 130 volt light bulbs? The answer is simple. Buy 130 volt bulbs when you want to save energy, change your bulbs less often, and don’t mind slightly lower light output and warmer color temperature.

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It's not Amazon brah, calm down.

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Thanks bapple. So, my current low light yellow dull color should be replaced, and I might as well drop the $80 to do it in LED? Is this pretty much it? Thanks again.

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