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Invested in the so called 15,000 hour LED domestic BC light bulb, that has gone phut in what appears to be a very short lifetime - so much for the 85% energy saving and their "long life and high efficiency make them a real money saver, allowing for a combined possible saving of up to £240 a year!"

At £5 a pop, I wouldn't call that cheap, by any means.

I have an Energy Saving Fluorescent Bulbs. 11W in a floor standard lamp that I set up for my disabled wife, and that has been running day and night for well over a year now - THAT is economy, not these new shit LED bulbs.

A quick calculation using a 60W old type lamp and replacing it with an 5W led lamp (equivalent to 60W in light power)
Running for 1000 hours on a normal tariff
Would cost you in electricity 60W = £16 5W = £1,20

So it's cheaper to buy a new lamp that has blown prematurely.
They are built with automated machines and only a 5 second test when assembled.
There will be a failure rate percentage.

Go to screwfix, they are about the cheapest and a great selection.

Quote: Stephen Goodlad @ 20th September 2021, 10:04 AM

A quick calculation using a 60W old type lamp and replacing it with an 5W led lamp (equivalent to 60W in light power)
Running for 1000 hours on a normal tariff
Would cost you in electricity 60W = £16 5W = £1,20

So it's cheaper to buy a new lamp that has blown prematurely. mutter, mutter - I wish I'd kept the box and dated it, which I normally do! FFS
They are built with automated machines and only a 5 second test when assembled.
There will be a failure rate percentage.

Go to screwfix, they are about the cheapest and a great selection.

Thanks for that Stephen, but I've already ordered a pair of Energizer LED GLS Bulbs BC 11.6W for £9.99, which Screwfix don't do, and I'm always suspicious of bulbs that are V cheap.

I'll stand up for screwfix.
All the trades use them.
They have quality gear from recognised manufacturers at good prices.
This is not an advertisement - just personal experience.

Facebook jail. It's like real jail. But the sex isn't as good.

Quote: Stephen Goodlad @ 20th September 2021, 11:32 AM

I'll stand up for screwfix.
All the trades use them.
They have quality gear from recognised manufacturers at good prices.
This is not an advertisement - just personal experience.

Oh yeah, have used them plenty of times, as with CPC over the years.

Light bulbs? Who calculates things like this? I just go to Wilko and buy the cheapest.

Quote: Chappers @ 20th September 2021, 8:39 PM

Light bulbs? I just go to Wilko and buy the cheapest.

Yeah, but I don't want to be getting the step ladder out each week to change a light bulb. :P

Antelopes, antirrhinums, Ant and Dec and the Antarctic piss me off.

I just can't stand words beginning with "ant" apart from ant itself.

Quote: A Horseradish @ 21st September 2021, 1:11 AM

I just can't stand words beginning with "ant" apart from ant itself.

So you're anti-ant.

Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 20th September 2021, 11:54 PM

Yeah, but I don't want to be getting the step ladder out each week to change a light bulb. :P

Can't you just grow a bit?

Quote: Chappers @ 21st September 2021, 6:10 AM

Can't you just grow a bit?

You should see how high the ceilings are in Thynne Towers! One doesn't live in a council house, don't yer know.

Swipe me, the proles we get on here - the lower classes don't know the 'alf of what we haristocracy have to put up with.

Quote: DaButt @ 21st September 2021, 2:38 AM

So you're anti-ant.

Anti-ant.......that's another word beginning with ant isn't it.

I can't bear it.

Quote: Chappers @ 20th September 2021, 8:39 PM

Light bulbs? Who calculates things like this? I just go to Wilko and buy the cheapest.

You'd be surprised how many times I am asked to calculate how much something costs to run.

As I said on this very thread not a year ago:

Quote: Billy Bunter @ 22nd October 2020, 6:04 PM

It used to be so simple to buy a light bulb... :$

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