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| g-mack Member Since: 07 Jan 2014 Location: northumberland Posts: 1967  
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ive been using ones from ledhut.co.uk and they seem ok. not sure where they are from. My 109 thread
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19th Feb 2014 9:27pm |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 19677
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What are you using in regular bayonet pendant fittings? Or don't you have those? Diesel$ Live$ Matter. ⛽️🛢️👨🔧🧰⚙️ RED, WHITE & BOOST! 🇬🇧
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19th Feb 2014 9:28pm |
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| bpman Member Since: 21 May 2008 Location: Oslo Posts: 8069 
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both bayonet pendants, wall lights, table and standard lamps with adapters
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19th Feb 2014 9:30pm |
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| couplands Member Since: 31 Aug 2011 Location: Peak District & Cornwall Posts: 1826 
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We've been swapping all our GU10 lamps (some halogen, some fluorescent ) for LED versions, but used eBay sourced products.
So far they have been excellent over the last 18 months and from memory worked out around 2 per lamp. It's a bit hard to track the power usage, but our 9 kitchen lights used to consumed 450 watts, now it's 36 watts..! Must be saving something. Cheers Simon |
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19th Feb 2014 9:35pm |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 19677
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Must look into these myself, these energy saving things are dim as
 not much good in a house that's dark enough as it is! Diesel$ Live$ Matter. ⛽️🛢️👨🔧🧰⚙️ RED, WHITE & BOOST! 🇬🇧 |
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19th Feb 2014 9:38pm |
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| Interlet Member Since: 10 Oct 2011 Location: Norwich Posts: 461 
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Colleague at work is gradually replacing all broken bulbs with LEDs. Reckon he's already saving a considerable amount.
I convinced my old man to buy some as well, and we fitted them, the good thing is they are the same glow as old bulbs, but a lot brighter, and not anywhere near as hot, nevermind the saving on them. Good ones really are the way to go. There was that rumour that Edison once said "I shall make electricity so cheap only the rich burn candles"... the next goal should be making LEDs so cheap only the rich use filament bulbs... Although as you say, some of the Chinese ones are cheap and nasty. At the moment you still have to pay for good LEDs. On a similar note, has anyone thought, about using LEDs on the X-Eng - X-Lite? I certainly have  1998 110 300Tdi White Hard Top |
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19th Feb 2014 10:03pm |
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| mrd1990 Member Since: 16 Aug 2012 Location: Wales Posts: 600  
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I highly recommend LEDs, I bought two of these and I'm very impressed http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0073CY7F2/ref=...71_TE_item
Make sure you go for warm white (at around 2700 to 3000k colour temp). Pretty much a direct replacement for a 100w bulb, no noticeable differences except it can't be dimmed..
Assuming you pay the normal electricity rate at ~13p per unit and have the lights on for 6 hours a day: You were spending 127.75 per year, now it should be around: 10.24  |
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19th Feb 2014 10:09pm |
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| sparkylee Member Since: 06 Nov 2010 Location: surrey Posts: 1455 
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Best of both worlds
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19th Feb 2014 10:21pm |
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| ttuck3r Member Since: 03 Feb 2013 Location: Dunning Scotland Posts: 277  
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I have over the last 2 years been changing all the lights in the house for GU10 SMD dimmable units from an electrical company called Ross electrics, i had a few hiccups in the beginning with some brand miss matches in the actual SMD units and the dimmer packs, but for the last year ive been running 30 KOSNIC SMD CREE 5w dimmable units running in different rooms on 4 different 400w dimmers and i think this is the combination i will be sticking with.
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19th Feb 2014 11:45pm |
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| bpman Member Since: 21 May 2008 Location: Oslo Posts: 8069
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ttuck3r
do you have a photo ? |
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20th Feb 2014 9:06am |
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| camelman Member Since: 27 Feb 2013 Location: Peak District Posts: 3334
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I've just bought 50 GU10s from cpc (www.cpc.co.uk) at under 4 each
tip, download their 'printed' catalogue from the website and use the product codes in there as they are a bit cheaper than advertised directly on the website!! At that price, the bulb pays for itself in 1 year if you use it for 2 hrs a day, 6 months at 4hrs a day etc. |
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20th Feb 2014 9:34am |
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| K9F Member Since: 12 Nov 2009 Location: Bournemouth Posts: 9610 
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Yes I too have replaced 24 GU10s (8 of which were 50w for 3w) all kitchen underlights and exterior floodlights 2 off (from 400w to 6 X 1.5w) and the saving is considerable. Especially visible if you have a gizmo that measures your current consumption you can see the difference physically against your wallet.
If you go through life with your head in the sand....all people will see is an ar5e!!
Treat every day as if it is your last....one day you will be right!! Last edited by K9F on 20th Feb 2014 10:36am. Edited 1 time in total |
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20th Feb 2014 9:46am |
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| SailingTom Member Since: 19 Nov 2013 Location: ESSEX Posts: 1709
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Thats Something I intend to do with the outside floodlights as there always going off so seems logical next step, as like others have started on the house with the main lights that are left on. The whole house is getting there but had some problems with cheaper chinese ones with rows of little ones. As the strips keep going out, we have found some better ones now which seem to have no problems plus a nicer yellow light than the harsh white.
Cheers Tom Defender puma dormobile camper |
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20th Feb 2014 9:51am |
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| camelman Member Since: 27 Feb 2013 Location: Peak District Posts: 3334
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You can also buy LED replacements now for those power hungry halogen floodlights as well. Search for 'R7s LED' on amazon or ebay. they use around 10w instead of 200w.
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20th Feb 2014 10:00am |
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