EU banning Halogen bulbs!

[buzzlightyear]

use them all the time .I have tried screwfix led those ones don't even
fit in some lighting fittings .

 

[Squid]

use them all the time .I have tried screwfix led those ones don't even
fit in some lighting fittings .

The LAP ones?

 

[buzzlightyear]

The LAP ones?

yes .C88p ones .I only got them to fit a one off for a customer .never again . I only fit the ones that tried and tested .

 

[Midwest]

Have one unfortunate customer who I installed some JCC 6's, whose had a few failures (6 0f 13), installed loads for others no probs.

Changed 3 last week for him, one of which packed up, and another existing one went in sympathy.

He got me to install them 3 years ago, 'cos I put some in his daughters house, and he was fed up replacing his existing 12v lamps & transformers

 

[Toneyz]

Have one unfortunate customer who I installed some JCC 6's, whose had a few failures (6 0f 13), installed loads for others no probs.

Changed 3 last week for him, one of which packed up, and another existing one went in sympathy.

He got me to install them 3 years ago, 'cos I put some in his daughters house, and he was fed up replacing his existing 12v lamps & transformers

What failed in these fittings LED or driver?

 

[johnduffell]

I only use Philips ones and they are ok, however LEDs are much more heat sensitive than halogens so despite the low power usage you have to make sure the fitting is up to it in terms of heat dissipation. A purpose made led fitting will always be more reliable than retro fit as the manufacturer can control the situation better.

 

[Midwest]

What failed in these fittings LED or driver?

Dunno they are a sealed unit. JCC had a bad batch in 2014. My wholesalers won’t stock the FGLED6 anymore, saw 3 girt big boxes of them waiting to back to JCC.
My client is getting them replaced under JCC warranty. He doesn’t have return them to JCC, just take a picture and they’ll send replacement.

 

[NDG Elecs]

My house has a real mix of LEDs in it. Got GE, Lap, Enlite, Phillips, Sylvania, LED Hut and others. Not changed a single lamp in well over 2 years. The GE ones in the bathroom are essily around 6-8yrs old.
I tend to avoid makes such as Lap and Marbo, but I do feel the Lap GU10s are ok. Have retro fitted loads in the past with only the occasional known failure, and I think many of the customers where I have fitted them would ring if there was a failure.
An engineer told me that LED lamps tend to follow a bathtub curve in terms of reliability. What he meant was that if they fail it is often quite quickly after install, and if they last six months then they are likely to go on and last many years. Whether that is true or not is another thing though! I did Google it at the time.
One make of LED I would avoid is Ikea. There is nothing green nor sustainable about five lamps that all end up in the bin after less than six months!!

 

[Toneyz]

Been using Crompton GU10 WW 7watt been a good replacement for 50w also their GLS good output also 14 Denman's own steeple GU10 in my brothers house (one stopped working 5 minutes after installing) apart from that good output and still working.

 

[1Justin]

The problem of heat loss has been overcome in the lab

Intriguing. How's that then? A filament at ~ 4000K is going to radiate on many wavelengths, the majority of power being in infra-red.
So I'm speculating here someone is trying to invented a high temperature phosphor able to re-emit long wavelengths in visible? .. Link??..

 

[Des 56]

Intriguing. How's that then? A filament at ~ 4000K is going to radiate on many wavelengths, the majority of power being in infra-red.
So I'm speculating here someone is trying to invented a high temperature phosphor able to re-emit long wavelengths in visible? .. Link??..

The technology works,it seems its a matter of improving whats been achieved and reaching possible efficiency targets

Have a look at this link
MIT develops energy-efficient incandescent light bulbs - https://www.dezeen.com/2016/01/13/mit-energy-efficient-incandescent-light-bulb-research/

Oh and UNG,thanks for yet another dumb rating
This time its for a published Graph of peoples opinions (The dumb award for that one seems to be even dumber to me)

Maybe you can take it up with the publishers,I only copied and pasted the information,there again, maybe you are so narrow sighted you see nothing other than what you want to see

It would be refreshing to actually see you post something of your arguments,its tedious and a little boring watching you hitting the dumb button with monotonous regularity

 

[Rpa07]

Pound to a penny it’s his scrolling fat finger that hit ‘dumb’ whilst perusing your wonderful and enlightening posts!

The technology works,it seems its a matter of improving whats been achieved and reaching possible efficiency targets

Have a look at this link
MIT develops energy-efficient incandescent light bulbs - https://www.dezeen.com/2016/01/13/mit-energy-efficient-incandescent-light-bulb-research/

Oh and UNG,thanks for yet another dumb rating
This time its for a published Graph of peoples opinions (The dumb award for that one seems to be even dumber to me)

Maybe you can take it up with the publishers,I only copied and pasted the information,there again, maybe you are so narrow sighted you see nothing other than what you want to see

It would be refreshing to actually see you post something of your arguments,its tedious and a little boring watching you hitting the dumb button with monotonous regularity

 

[Toneyz]

This will now depend upon lumens per watt as for the colour the warm white ones are as close, people will get used to the colour.

 

[1Justin]

Have a look at this link

Thanks. Sounds like it may have more than a little in common with this then
How we can turn the cold of outer space into a renewable resource - https://www.ted.com/talks/aaswath_raman_how_we_can_turn_the_cold_of_outer_space_into_a_renewable_resource

 

[sparkdog]

And flying sparks.