Philips LED light bulb review

Review of Philips Ambient LED 8 Watt LED bulb.
This bulb is rated at
Lumens: 450
Watts: 8
Color Accuracy: 80
Color: 2700K
Life: 25,000 Hours
Dimmable
A19 base
Price: $22 Retail, $18 on sale at Home Depot as of 12/30/2010

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• LED
• light
• bulb
• review
• CFL
• compact
• fluorescent

[YoginJ]

cfl's contain mercury

[gmatochautube]

@YoginJ Do you eat Tuna? If you eat 6oz of tuna, you will have the same mercury exposure as sitting in a small closet with a broken CFL for 8 hours.

[mysty0]

@gmatochautube Tuna has mercury., well aint you a clever sophist!! Beef has iron.., wanna make your next youtube clip one of you downing a tablespoon of rust?

[gmatochautube]

@mysty0 LOL

[gmatochautube]

@gilliasad - found it, thanks. Yup, CA provided $548m in subsidies though an electric rate fee and subsidied bulbs provided by utility companies. Considering that CFL's here in Texas are not expensive (and not directly subsidized), I would say the impact on the retail price was little. BTW, some utilities here in TX also provide free or low cost CFLs if requested directly from the utility. I think the high price of LEDs is because they're still new - like CFLs 15 years ago.

[gilligasad]

Well we're a year out and the 60 watt ambient LED is still $25. It used to be $40 so I guess that's an improvement but it's not anywhere near the same price as a CFL as you predicted... why? Lack of subsidy as with CFLs?

[gmatochautube]

@gilligasad True, they're not falling as fast as I had hoped. But I have seen the 60watt version on sale at Home Depot for $20 recently. Obama sold out the efficiency requirements on light bulbs so I fear the market may slow down.

I'm not aware of any subsidies for CFLs - if you have some facts to support that, I'd love to know about it.

[seenh526]

I bought a few of the yellow ones and I am wondering if the white bulb type give the same light output and feel? I love the light from the yellow bulbs but they look ugly in my open lights. I got a great deal on the 12W yellow from HD for 15 each!

[faffaflunkie]

These are cool lights but what does the guy in the trailer on a fixed income (who pays low electric rates because he lives in a state that uses coal fired plants) do when the price of light bulbs goes up 100 times. Ironic that people who have the cheapest electricity will be shivering in the dark because of "progress".

[errorstudios]

Great video, thanks.

[kondor1001]

I've a 7w LED, I went for a "colder/blue/day" bulb because at the moment they are still quite low powered and the colder bulbs tend to push more light out. Cost me about $12.50 in USA money. I intended to replace an 11w CFL wth it, but when I pulled out the CFL I noticed it was 18w. So it is going in a smaller room, where I expect it to last ages. I think even standard LED lights would work well enough in a multi light fitting.

Going to try this 7w bulb in various rooms around the house.

[ps3spoiler]

what are the best led bulbs right now?

[bimalgeorgethomas]

Hope prices come down to cfl levels atleast.the audio of this video sucks.