LED Bulbs - Worth it yet?

BrokenLink said:
Yeah, they didnt use to die this quickly. I do suspect, and this was also mentioned by my electrican, that its more related to the power being a bit more unstable. More noisy. I have had several CFLs go out, come back, die again for a while, then come back again. Maybe they only switch on at 240V :D need that spike!
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I think there's something in that. In certain areas in the city I live in, our power supply fluctuates between 190 and 270 in a day - sustained for long periods. Mostly the hospital neighbourhood. I suspect there is an overdemand / undersupply / overcompensation situation on the go... poor outdated equipment to add to that.

Crikey! What do you do to pay R15k per month on electricity?
 
moer said:
They remind me of stiffy disks - they got worse and worse as time went on - eventually they were worse than the floppies that they replaced and were supposed to be more reliable than.
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Problem is we the people are to blame, we keep on buying the cheap knockoffs instead of the quality brands, so the proper brand start bringing cheap products to compete and with that lower quality.

I remember buying proper Osram CFL for R 120 about 8 years back that had a 20 year swapout guarantee on the box after an influx of cheap ones I could not find them anymore.

I still have the 20 year ones that shows no sign of giving up, unlike the cheap crap I have in the other fittings. Also proven when I move the longlife ones that its not the fittings.
 
Elimentals said:
Problem is we the people are to blame, we keep on buying the cheap knockoffs instead of the quality brands, so the proper brand start bringing cheap products to compete and with that lower quality.

I remember buying proper Osram CFL for R 120 about 8 years back that had a 20 year swapout guarantee on the box after an influx of cheap ones I could not find them anymore.
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Problem is that people don't know better and the shops push the rubbish. It's hard to convince people that a brand name counts with SA's history of grey importing.
 
Human nature is suppose.
Looking out for a cheaper one, when u know the quality one is better.
 
IceQB said:
Human nature is suppose.
Looking out for a cheaper one, when u know the quality one is better.
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Actually you don't know the quality one is better. People have been bitten by brand names. Lenovo is a classic example. Their T400 range had an overheating problem for the past year +, they are still working on a solution that doesn't disable the second GPU... they won't fix it before EOL for sure but people paid good money for the feature.
 
BrokenLink said:
I agree with you on the math, purely based on wattage you can save a lot more by replacing a geyser or something rather than all the bulbs.

However im looking for them around R120, have seen some i think. 6/8 CFL`s i put in in January have now blown. So if you have to buy 5 off them over the lifetime of a LED they work out around the same price.....with lower power. But they are the future i think, just gotta get mass produced so the prices come down. I pay around R15 000 for water and electricity per month......so even 10% saving is quite significant for me. But yeah spending R10 000 on bulbs seems a bit excessive :D



Yeah, they didnt use to die this quickly. I do suspect, and this was also mentioned by my electrican, that its more related to the power being a bit more unstable. More noisy. I have had several CFLs go out, come back, die again for a while, then come back again. Maybe they only switch on at 240V :D need that spike!
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We looking at putting one of our geysers on solar.
 
I think there's something in that. In certain areas in the city I live in, our power supply fluctuates between 190 and 270 in a day - sustained for long periods. Mostly the hospital neighbourhood. I suspect there is an overdemand / undersupply / overcompensation situation on the go... poor outdated equipment to add to that.

Crikey! What do you do to pay R15k per month on electricity?
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Hehe, i manage a bunch of student accommodation.
 
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