Chocolate Dude Bunny Melts Under Energy-Wasting Incandescent Light, Survives LED light

[MrMaxwelldl]

pause at 0:43 and you'll understand why we still use incandescent bulbs. Plus LED bulbs are more expensive to produce and distribute. The marginal savings you get from switching from incandescent to LED bulbs is better spent on properly insulating your house (or buying food for starving children in third world countries).

[MrMaxwelldl]

@MrMaxwelldl I mean pause at 0:42. Right before they turn on. Compare the initial lighting conditions.

[soulcalibur22]

so?

[poiiihy]

the tape slipped cuz the led is heavy

[Drunkenturtle1]

What did it taste like

[thedavetrain]

There are too many people commenting on this that know way too much about light bulbs.

[Heatherseesthelight]

What a creative way to showcase the differences between LED and incandescent bulbs! Thanks, CREE. I've joined your revolution!

[skinlo01]

Impressive, except the incandescent bulb looked brighter, even if they are meant to have the same brightness.

[roderik1990]

@skinlo01 also, arguably, the heat given off by a lightbulb is heat that does not need produced by your heating system anymore.

[A1theAPEX]

they cost WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYY­YYYYYYYYYYYYY too much right now

[PetersCodClips]

The room on the right is much better lit.

[Ryuuken24]

Sure, LED lights are more efficient, but, they don't illuminate too well, that's the problem, you can't just have on LED light, you need to have a bunch of them, where normally you would need one incandescent Light. Well, future sure looks more efficient, but less bright.

[shoalcreek5]

Wow, you can melt a bunny with a 65W HEAT LAMP! Congratulations! If you ever develop an LED that really does have the fantastic lifespan you claim, puts out the same amount of light as a 60 W incandescent, that produces NATURAL light like an incandescent,and costs anywhere less than $20.00, I'll buy it. Until then DREAM ON!

[Pook365]

@shoalcreek5

Other than costing less than $20 they have already done all of the things on your list.

[shoalcreek5]

@Pook365

Show me a good LED that has as full of a wavelength spectrum that matches an incandescent wavelength spectrum. Show me a good LED that maintains a decent color temperature of around 3000-4500 K. Show me a good LED that does not vary its color temperature from one angle to another. If you can show me a good LED that does all of that, I'll show you a good LED that will take a five year loan to outfit your house and lamps and will only last for 15,000 hours.

[Pook365]

@shoalcreek5

All of Cree's LED are available in 2600-4300k, with suitable optics there will be no discernible variation in colour temp.

Where on earth do you get the 15k hours figure from? Given that none of the current generation has been tested to fail in that time frame for obvious reasons it would be difficult to state that as fact.

Anyway that is still two years of constant use or a more reasonable 6years at 8hrs a day.

Yes..I imagine it would be costly, this is cutting edge after all.

[shoalcreek5]

@Pook365

Some LED mfrs. claim a life of 50,000 hours but then use electrolytic capacitors in the control circuit that have a 15K hours (or lower) MTBF rating. Also, the few (expensive) LED bulbs that meet the lighting specs you claim have an increased heat output, often causing premature failure of the LED's themselves. It's a tradeoff between three things--good lighting, long life, and low price. The good lighting part is easily the heavy part of this tradeoff with LED's.

[Jonnay0808]

well of course it's melting like crazy because of that HUGE flood light...why don't you just use a regular 60W incandescent? or better a fluorescent.

[Pook365]

@Jonnay0808

That's a 60w spot bulb, I assume they used that as it has the same lighting pattern as their bulb.

[saxman1a]

the right side is much brighter, i can't stand dark rooms

[locouk]

The LED light is horrible, harsh and so. CFL's are better these days, but you can't beat 60w Pearl Incandescent for a good wholeness to the light.

[Pook365]

@locouk

I think you should probably look at newer LED and CFL products neither of them have horrible light. They can both match incandescent colour if you want that.

[AshleySueBullers]

@julieannec1969 you can argue that the energy is never wasted, as the heat just has to be compensated for by running your home heater, but that is a very sad and misguided point, honestly, for many of us. In most of the US, we have only a few months a year that we run the heaters at all. In fact, I run ours less than two months a year because here in the mid-Atlantic area, it never gets too cold. In fact, I have to run a/c TONS because the house is too hot. So bye-bye excess heat incandescents.

[swisscheeseify]

@GPdionysus19 agreed, any "savings" on heating costs with incandescent bulbs are most likely outweighed by the use of the AC. I know that's certainly the case here in sunny california, where all we need in the winters to stay warm is a blanket or two.

[julieannec1969]

Hi! Well, it's already been proven that if u make the switch there is no real savings. If use led it takes more heat to heat your home, as incandescent lights helped give off heat. (The energy was never really wasted) So it's a try at a win that translates later into a fail. However using LED lighting outside for Xmas holidays and path lighting make sense..BUT why not just go solar then too.

[GPdionysus19]

@julieannec1969 ???? well for the rest of us that dont live in Antartica, I'm glad that is 90 degrees outside yet cool inside with a bright white lighting. Installed these fixtures in my home and it has definetly saved money.

[julieannec1969]

@GPdionysus19 That's juvenille response. "Well, the rest of us don't live in Antartica" Just stating facts that science has released. Stop blubbering like a little kid. It's uneducated to say Newfoundland, Canada is Antartica. Argue with science and actual common sense. Not act like an interenet troll because someone disagreed with u. Maturity goes a long way. I half agreed with u, saying it would be good for xmas lights or things of that nature, just not most house hold use savings. Duh!

[phillipechols]

Cool video.

[musiqman0709]

That chocolate bunny costs 25 bucks on amazon no lie

[xenoxaos1]

FIRST! Sorry, had to. But I'm glad we have incandescents around. I hate those Dude bunnies!!

[LEDsIndustrial]

@xenoxaos1 I agree! Incandescent technology is a little dated but definately still has it's place. I also had the government telling me which light bulb to use. Wish they would let the market decide!