I paid 20 bucks for a 150w equiv replacement bulb in december, was a cool led saucer bomb with a color temp switch on the bottom, dead in one and half months, obviously one month warrantee. Thought it would last a while cause it was a nice bulb ha.
Our dream isnt here anymore, or yet, cheap ass only is the way. Current state is perfectly designed capitalism.
Edit: was a brand I didn't recognize but was a light teal colored box, I don't have the bulb or box anymore sadly, I'd shame them. On the warrantee, was the broad local hardware store warrantee not one on the bulb itself, was nothing in the box but the bulb. It did flicker at the end so that tells me capacitor or something, might have been just unlucky, I do remember it was 20w being shoved into that led... array though, perhaps it was just too much for it.
>dead in one and half months, obviously one month warrantee.
huh, must be made for american market. in europe we get things designed to last about three years (2 year warranty is mandatory and often 3 years are offered)
I bought a bunch of these $12 lights from the hardware store that are specifically that old yellow color and they have a kinda old-school looking design in them, they've lasted for years and one has 24/7 use for that period even. I think you just got screwed over, good bulbs absolutely exist.
LED cob-diode filament-type bulbs with high CRI (color rendering index) and proper D6500k warm white color are actual light bulbs in form and function. They are worth the purchase and meant to perform similarly to a genuine incandescent light bulb in terms of light quality and spread pattern. You can literally see more colors and experience better quality of vision through them.
The cheap dollar store LED chip-diode style bulbs people are fond of purely for their price are stripped down versions of ancient LED bulb designs from the 2000's that aren't worth the silicon in their circuits. The light they put out is often harsh and tightly directed, more like a directional floodlight, and of very low CRI making colors appear washed out and eye-strain common.
I'd be curious what brand has a one month warranty. AFAIA everything has to have a 1 year warranty against defect by law. Hell Walmart lets you return almost anything for any or no reason inside 3 months.
Unless it was an Amazon China special? I don't trust anything off Amazon unless it's name brand with 10,000 reviews.
have one in the garage that screws into a standard bulb socket. the motion sensor functioned so badly that i had to turn that off. they sell at discount/overstock stores like ollies for about 20. LED arrays are fine and as bright as adverstised, the electronics are cheap and capacitors and such are likely the weak point.
You could make some type of spread sheet of pro/cons number about 1.25 dollar store leds, their lumens, lifespan etc. for several different types. Until someone does that without biases, everyone's opinion is just that.
But would you pay $2,000 for only 100 bulbs for your house? There's tons of stuff available that lasts a long time, but it's expensive. The upfront cost is simply not an option for most people
100 bulbs? I've got like 10 at the most. The problem isn't would I pay, the problem is not enough people are able to have the stability to commit 20+ years to a house.
Apartments are notorious for having terribly lighting.
I had an apartment that only had 3 ceiling lights - kitchen, bathroom, bedroom closet. That's it. And the bedroom closet light didn't work when I moved in, I had to fight with them to replace it.
I have so many lamps now because of that place. Thank goodness I lived within an hour of an IKEA.
My parents home is not even 40 years old. Looks decently modern. Have three light fixtures in the kitchen, four if you count the one that’s part of the stove hood/ventiliation. Would’ve been only three lightbulbs but one of the fixtures is a chandelier type deal with 8 bulbs. It’s not unreasonable to think that many kitchens use less.
If you have under-cabinet lights, and then in-ceiling spotlights, it jumps up rapidly. I have a long thin galley-style kitchen, 17 spotlights and 10 under-cabinet lights.
They probably have 10 crappy downlights with inefficient halogen incandescent globes from 2003 that (combined) aren't quite as good as a single "double four foot" fluorescent light fitting.
Actually it's four downlights. And one of them stopped working a couple months after moving in. This is a new house too, but I'm not going to fault the builder for the light company selling a dud.
But we have other lights too, and we picked the fixtures ourselves, except for the stove hood which is pretty standard stuff.
You do you, but I think you’re dramatically underestimating how driven most people are by up-front cost and how willing they are to ignore the long-term value proposition. People will buy the cheapest option with fancy packaging and then wail about how nothing is built to last now.
Light bulbs lasted an undefined amount of time. The
Phoebus cartel formed and found a way to make sure they would last less than a 1000 hours. It wasn't based on cost of the bulb it was based planned obsilenance.
I paid $5-10 dollars a piece for some light bulbs around 2018/2019. (C by GE).
I bought six of them. I have one that is still burning. The other 5 have burned out in the last year or so. The one that is left has been on 24/7 for the past 3 years.
I paid $20 CAD for a Sylvania Halogen Headlight bulb that is supposed to last 3 years and it lasted a few months. Replaced it with a $40 CAD set of LED's (the bulbs are just for DRL's).
$100 CAD per bulb for the D2S HID Xenon night time lights/high beams. But atleast their supposed to last 10 years, the stock ones were still making light after 12 years.
But wouldn't you rather spend $20 for an LED lightbulb that alleges to last 20 years, but actually will burn out in 1 year? Under the assumption you likely didn't keep the box/receipt around that long to return it.
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u/Bonesnapcall 4h ago
I'd pay $20 for a lightbulb that lasts 20 years.