On Apr 18, 1:28*am, (Don Klipstein) wrote:
In ,
ransley wrote in small part:
SNIP to mention of Lights of America
I bought a Lights Of America Led, [ makers of many high quaility
commercial lighting products] and found the 9w Led to be a total lie
and terrible color rendition, it put out about 25% as much as a HD
Cfl !
SNIP afterwards
* Maybe the many L.O.A. CFLs that I have personally purchased and used and
had personal experience with are other than these "many high quality
commercial lighting products"?
* Although L.O.A. appears to me to be much better than the outright stool
specimens that nearly all dollar store CFLs (with possible exceptions at
some Dollar Tree stores) appear to me to be, I am rather displeased by my
personal experience with L.O.A. CFLs. *I have only purchased two L.O.A.
screw-base CFLs after 2002 and at least one likely both of those in 2005.
One of those latest two gave me problems by the time I ran it a few 10's
of operating hours and both of those two appeared to me to produce lower
ratio of claimed to actual light output than I found from CFLs of most
other brands and from most non-dollar-store A19-style incandescents that
stated light output in lumens.
* All of the L.O.A. CFLs that I purchased in 2002 or earlier similarly
appeared to me to have lower ratio of actual to claimed light output than
most CFLs other than L.O.A. and the dollar-store-junkers, and my memory at
this moment is of 6 of these that I personally purchased and 2 of these 6
completely died young (around 12 and a few hundred operating hours
respectively) and 2 others of these 6 significantly malfunctioned due to
poor contact in plug-socket connections ("modular" rather than "integral"
design, bulb plugs into a screw-base ballast module) and/or poor solder
joints.
* I mention this in at least a bit more detail in:
http://members.misty.com/don/cfapp.html#b
* I stand by my negative experiences with L.O.A. that I mention there and
above here as actual personal experience with L.O.A. products that I
personally purchased in-store from major-name retailers. *(Although I
disclaim guaranteeing accuracy down to the year of every one of my many
negative personal experiences with L.O.A. CFL products, including
year-of-purchase and year of malfunction that I actually personally
experienced.)
*- Don Klipstein )
I meant High Quality as kinda a joke. What I was suprised at was my
ACE sold LOA leds that LOA wont even show on their site, they are
crap, even a grey color of a bs lumen rating.