In my experience the standard household CFL and LED bulbs don't last any longer than the now illegal old incandescents I used to get for $1 for 4 bulbs at the dollar store.
They do use less electricity though. Allan Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> writes: > I was at Lowes this evening because I wanted to purchase some motion > sensing lights for beside the garage and porch light. I also needed to > get some bulbs. It has been many years since we have used regular old > fashioned bulbs that cost a buck for a 4 pack. We usually get a big box > of those CFL bulbs fairly cheap. Lowes only had a couple of choices of > these and they were expensive. It seems most of the bulbs now offered > are LED. They are not exactly cheap but were cheaper than the CFL bulbs > they had. I got the cheapest per bulb I could find and the highest I > found were 60W equivalent. I did find some 75W but they were much more > expensive and only in a 2 or 4 pack IIRC. So are guess LED is what > everything is going to? How long are these things supposed to last? I > ended up spending way more than I wanted to between the fixtures and the > various bulbs we needed for the house. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
