Personally I love my latest LED lights. They have gotten substantially
better just in the past year. We have some 8 watt units in our kitchen
that illuminate just like a 35 watt halogen, beautiful color rendition,
not that blue they used to have.
I especially like my new 1000 lumen spotlight that lights up brighter
than a car head light in a package slightly larger than the old mini mag
flash lights.
However, I have no experience with ham radio, or theRF interference
issue. We're WiFi, and cell at our house. I do some audio recording,
etc. and haven't noticed any extra buzz from the several LEDs I have in
my basement studio.
Ray
On 2/9/2012 4:54 PM, toddc...@finestplanet.com wrote:
i have some personal experience with led light bulbs. i put them
outside because the cfl floodlights are very s-l-o-w to warm up to
full brightness.
1) leds are still slightly less efficient (lumens per watt) than cfl's
2) led light bulbs (2 different brands) throw out an ungodly amount of
rfi... want to listen to a conversation on the 2 meter ham radio or
listen to a weak fm broadcast station or watch channel 6 on the
tee-vee? go shut off the led lights off first.
my conclusion? led light bulbs are not ready for prime time.
todd (still using my 25+ year old phillips dulux cfls)
On Thursday, February 9, 2012 1:44pm, "Jim MacDonald"
<j...@solaresystems.com> said:
Hello wrenches
I am in Central America and looking to suggest customers buy efficient
LEDs for illumination in their 120V-wired homes, connected to local
power grids with less-than-desirable power quality.
I see that so many manus claim long life for the LEDs, in the tens of
thousands of hours, yet so few if any back it up with a decent warranty.
Folks are hesitant to make this investment, believing that voltage
surges or dips could destroy the LEDs.
Has anyone heard of LED lights' lives ending prematurely due to grid
events?
Would inline surge protectors [something small to be installed
immediately downstream of the breaker in the home's main panel) be
helpful, and if so, does anyone have any recommended brands?
thanks
Jim MacDonald
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