{"id":7080,"date":"2015-10-13T12:23:05","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=7080"},"modified":"2024-12-01T17:31:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T01:31:54","slug":"led-light-bulbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/13\/led-light-bulbs\/","title":{"rendered":"LED Light Bulbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just two years ago I wrote how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/07\/cfl-vs-led-a-diatribe\/\">LED light bulbs vs CFL light bulbs were exciting but still &#8220;a wash&#8221;<\/a>. My how tech changes. Over the last couple months, I&#8217;ve been replacing my 23 watt CFLs with 9.5 watt LEDs and getting the same lumens! My LED bulbs look terrific, last forever, and will pay for themselves in less than two years. If they were replacing incandescent bulbs, they&#8217;d pay for themselves in twDONE!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m using Feit Electric Conserv-Energy 60 watt replacement dimmable bulbs. Feit item# 144799. Available at my Costco for $10.50 for 3.<\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t flicker. I&#8217;ve put them on my new Lutron Maestro dimmers and they dim very nicely down to a very low level (but I also had to put a regular 40 watt incandescent in with them lest the dimming circuit doesn&#8217;t work correctly).<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been able to use them in a torchiere lamp with a built-in dimmer. If the light is set to dim and some appliance in the house turns on, the light turns off for a split second :-( The incandescent bulb only flutters a little and is much more tolerable.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_20151013_105156654.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7081\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_20151013_105156654-338x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"527\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_20151013_105212214.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7082\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_20151013_105212214-338x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_20151013_105212214-338x600.jpg 338w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_20151013_105212214-113x200.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_20151013_105212214-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_20151013_105212214-28x50.jpg 28w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just two years ago I wrote how LED light bulbs vs CFL light bulbs were exciting but still &#8220;a wash&#8221;. My how tech changes. Over the last couple months, I&#8217;ve been replacing my 23 watt CFLs with 9.5 watt LEDs and getting the same lumens! My LED bulbs look terrific, last forever, and will pay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flicker","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10714,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7080\/revisions\/10714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}