6 Reasons to Switch Every Light Bulb in Your House to LED

<P><p><div><p><b>6 reasons to switch every light bulb in your house to LED</b></p></P><P><img src="https://img.yfisher.com/1577693663826" style="margin:10px auto"></P><P><p>LED lightbulbs produce far more light per watt than either incandescent or CFL bulb, and are by far the greenest option on the market. Several years ago, I took some heat for my stand against CFL lights, which I detest. It was very un-eco of me, I admit. But I spoke my mind in this column and also on NBC Nightly News, twice, where, incidentally, anchor Brian Williams agreed with me. Though considered by some a public planet pariah, I made no apologies. I simply did not want to trade the warm white light of the less energy-efficient incandescent bulbs for the queasy blue-gray light of CFLs, with their ghastly glow that makes you feel as if you are in a perpetual state of morning sickness. Plus, the CFL's curlicue shapes look stupid, and most CFLs cannot go on dimmers, so you lose light control. And, though their makers claim they last 10 times longer than incandescent bulbs, in my home, the CFL bulbs burned out just as fast. If that were not reason enough to dislike them, they contain poisonous mercury. And you can not toss them in the trash because they are toxic to landfills. Apart from that they are fabulous. Anyway, I took a lot of heat for my opinion. At last, those days of shame are gone. Residential lighting has come out of the dark ages of incandescence and into the enlightened age of the LED. Last month, I had every light in my house that was not already an LED converted to one. It's been illuminating. What tripped this cosmic switch was one recessed can light that burned out. An incandescent bulb that lit the stairwell, it was 20 feet overhead. To change it, DC and I would need a precariously placed ladder and an updated life insurance policy. I had an electrician coming anyway, so while he was installing other fixtures, I added this chore to the list. He told me about retrofit kits -- a simple light trim package that converts recessed cans made for incandescent or CFL light bulbs into ones that work with <a href="https://zhubao.lifisher.com/ai-article/6-reasons-to-switch-every-light-bulb-in-your-house-to-led.html">led bulbs</a>. (LEDs do not use filaments or gas to make light, but semiconductor circuit chips, so they last for years.) I had the electrician swap out every bulb in the house that was not already an LED. Now all my home's recessed cans, candelabra bulbs and art accent lights are LEDs. I even swapped the hideous fluorescent fixture in my laundry room (Whose idea was that?) and installed two LED recessed cans on a dedicated dimmer switch. "The move from away from incandescent and CFL bulbs toward LED marks a tidal shift in our industry," said Michael Murphy, interior designer and trends producer for Lamps Plus, a Los Angeles-based lighting retail chain. It's one of the biggest changes the lighting industry has seen since Thomas Edison invented the light blub. LED lights trump CFL bulbs in every way and are as good or better than incandescent bulbs, Murphy said. Here's how: Ahh, the sweet taste of redemption. Bring it. Syndicated columnist Marni Jameson is the author of two home and lifestyle books and the newly released "Downsizing the Family Home -- What to Save, What to Let Go" (Sterling Publishing 2016).</p><p>------</p><p><b>What LED bulb is equivalent to 300 watts?</b></p><p>The LED packaging I've seen on display suggest that a 25 watt LED gives light equivalent to a 100 watt incandescent lamp. So 3 x or 75 watts of LED would be close.I have converted industrial X ray viewer boxes from 4 x 300 watt incandescent lamps (they would melt the X ray after 10-15 seconds at hi brightness setting) to 6 x 50 watt LED chips on a heat sink. They are brighter than the incandescents, with a fraction of the heat.In both cases, the ratio is 25% LED to similar incandescent</p></P><P><img src="https://img.yfisher.com/1588754161302" style="margin:10px auto"></P><P><p>------</p><p><b>Why are <a href="https://zhubao.lifisher.com/ai-article/6-reasons-to-switch-every-light-bulb-in-your-house-to-led.html">led bulbs</a> suddenly affordable and in many formats?</b></p><p>Originally the LED chips which are the components that produce the light were sourced from major companies such as bridgelux, Samsung, osram. Chinese manufacturers chips quality was not equivalent. Now the Chinese chips called smdu2019s are almost as good as the brand names or in some cases equivalent. So they gave flooded the market. And since the price of chips has dropped so much LEDs are becoming really affordable. The price is now stabilizing, and wo not get much lower. I have learned this working at CYBER TECH LIGHTING. A lighting manufacturer based in Southern California.Why are <a href="https://zhubao.lifisher.com/ai-article/6-reasons-to-switch-every-light-bulb-in-your-house-to-led.html">led bulbs</a> suddenly affordable and in many formats?</p></div></p></P>