On 05/07/2013 12:56, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Mark wrote:
On Thu, 04 Jul 2013 23:44:31 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article o.uk,
Dave Liquorice wrote:
Trouble is a 20,000 hr life is about 2.25 years... Think I've just
talked myself out of them for this application. B-)

Has anyone had an LED reach its claimed life?

All bar one of my expensive LED GU10s failed within two years. I've
gone back to using halogens.

That's been my experience with a variety of LEDs. Although I've not bought
one recently.

I only really want low energy types where the lighting is on for long
periods. Not much worried about a toilet or hallway etc where it isn't.

We do have low energy lights in the toilet, but not really for energy
saving reasons. CFLs give enough light straight away to be useful, but
warm up slowly, so avoiding dazzling you if you go for a pee during the
night.

SteveW

SteveW wrote:
On 05/07/2013 12:56, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Mark wrote:
On Thu, 04 Jul 2013 23:44:31 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article o.uk,
Dave Liquorice wrote:
Trouble is a 20,000 hr life is about 2.25 years... Think I've just
talked myself out of them for this application. B-)

Has anyone had an LED reach its claimed life?

All bar one of my expensive LED GU10s failed within two years. I've
gone back to using halogens.

That's been my experience with a variety of LEDs. Although I've not bought
one recently.

I only really want low energy types where the lighting is on for long
periods. Not much worried about a toilet or hallway etc where it isn't.

We do have low energy lights in the toilet, but not really for energy
saving reasons. CFLs give enough light straight away to be useful, but
warm up slowly, so avoiding dazzling you if you go for a pee during the night.

The only place that I now have a CFL Is in a bedside light which is on a
timer. In winter it provides a wake up call by gradually increasing in
intensity as CFLs do. It thus replicates a stupidly expensive alarm clock I
once saw but it cost all of a fiver.

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€¢DarWin|
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On 07/07/2013 10:06, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article 2,
DerbyBorn wrote:
"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in
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http://www.downlightsdirect.co.uk/ha...downlight.html

Plenty of hype there - they quote the light output as being 'comparable'
to a 50watt GU10

A typical 50 watt GU10 gives 950 lumens.
This warm white LED manages 467

I thought a typical GU10 50W halogen was in the 500-560 lumens range? In
which case the quoted LED one is getting close.

SteveW

On 05/07/2013 09:12, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 08:14:05 +0100, The Medway Handyman wrote:

We have a couple of light fittings in a dark corridor that are
essentially on 24/7.

Why not install a PIR?

Childrens "comfort" light at night...

Yes, we have that too. All three were fine without lights at night until
last October. We stayed in a house in Ireland (that we've stayed in
before) and two of the three wanted a light on at night, being in a
"strange" house. Since coming back, the youngest has woken up crying
each night, unless the hall and landing light are left on and his
bedroom door left open. I really should get around to getting him a
proper night light.

SteveW