09-09-2021, 06:13 PM
Well yes - the vast majority of our house is LED, first in our kitchen renovation 8 years ago, and then progressively though the bathroom renovations and elsewhere in the house. They obviously get used lots, particularly in the Winter.
The one gotcha was the failure of one single kitchen LED unit. The ones up there were of course obsolete, and replacing the failed one with something with the same nominal colour temperature looked totally different - stuck out like a sore thumb. So I had to replace all 8 of them. How's that for the green credential of LED lights?
However - my garage workshop has a bunch of lights that I installed above machines, all of which were G10 two pin base halogen. So when they go pop I have to either stump up a fiver each for LED versions, which on the usage hours I estimate will last me to age 90 or more. So for that particular low-use application I'm sticking with halogen, and stocking up.
Craig
The thing I really object to is not so much the cost saving, it is the Government's argument regarding greenhouse gases - which at 0.26% saving is trivial.
The one gotcha was the failure of one single kitchen LED unit. The ones up there were of course obsolete, and replacing the failed one with something with the same nominal colour temperature looked totally different - stuck out like a sore thumb. So I had to replace all 8 of them. How's that for the green credential of LED lights?
However - my garage workshop has a bunch of lights that I installed above machines, all of which were G10 two pin base halogen. So when they go pop I have to either stump up a fiver each for LED versions, which on the usage hours I estimate will last me to age 90 or more. So for that particular low-use application I'm sticking with halogen, and stocking up.
Craig
The thing I really object to is not so much the cost saving, it is the Government's argument regarding greenhouse gases - which at 0.26% saving is trivial.
