re: Anyone gone totally LED with lighting?

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I have not noticed a difference in my electric bill yet

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throw a cheap energy-monitoring plug-in module on 2 lights; one with regular & one with LED and you'll quickly see the difference. you can pick one up for $20 at home depot and return it when you're done playing.

you don't notice a difference because 95% of your electric bill is your damn HVAC trying to pull water and heat out of your air.

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I hope these last a long time I'm sick of replacing bulbs every 3-6 months.

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my hew house had so many damn lights (a zillion can lights, 18 floods, track lights, eyeballs, etc etc) and while we were moving in it seemed like 5 lights would burn out every day. once i swapped LEDs across the house, i haven't given a second thought to lights..its SO frickING NICE TO HAVE GOOD LIGHTS THAT DONT DIE EVERY THREE MONTHS



eta nothing drives cad crazier than chasing burned-out lights (well except amazon). it used to be like whack-a-mole. everytime i'd fix one, another would go out. i'd carry around that little egg carton of CFLs hunting for dead lights and it seemed like i bought a new 12-pack every other month.

for those with recessed lighting......

are you just using the LED bulb or changing the fixtures to LED?

I hav been replacing my current bulbs with LED's and I love them. Very bright and have not had to replace one yet. If you do the math they are very cost effective as well. I always write the date installed on the base of the bulb to see how long they last. I used to get about 6-12 months sometimes over a year out of my incandescent bulbs. You would really be dumb not to go to better bulbs

The last last ones I changed were the flourecent t8 bulbs in my garage. The LED's seem a lot brighter in the garage.

12 foot ceilings with recessed lighting. If they last half the time the say they do it will be well worth the effort saved changing those damn things.

What is your lamp temperature? Depending on the temerature, your light will be a different color. LEDs that burn at the lower temperatures (around 3000 K) will produce a more yellow or warm light. Most bugs cannot see well along the color spectrum produced by the lower temperature LEDs. However the higher temperature LEDs (Around 4500 kelvin and higher) emit a bluish hue which is in a color spectrum most bugs can see very well in. Think bug zapper and stay away from that color.