LED Indoor lighting?

[Minerva]

what a nice store!! I like it!

[goldenfooler]

I don't see any cookies or donuts to welcome me

[Jeffro]

guys,

I'm a salesman for a marine electrical distributor in New Orleans. We are also a large Sylvania distributor. If anybody needs any help pricing out some LED's of Compact fluorescents I might be able to help.

Only thing with the Led's i usually need to by pack quantities, they come in packs of 6 or 4 usually.

[Jeffro]

steamboat i'm retrofitting with LED's right now. LED's aren't installed in this pic.


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[goldenfooler]

steamboat i'm retrofitting with LED's right now. LED's aren't installed in this pic.


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whats your take on the cost advantage if anything?
on another notes .. if a jumbalia doesn't have rice what is it called again?

[Devilguns]

This is a pic of part of my store's overhead lighting. The large lights are Metal Halide and the small ones are Halogen. I am in the process of trying to switch from Halogen to LEDs.
The second pic is of the front left of my store.





Apache

It's funny you mention the show case lights. My wife and I were at a Zales in our local mall. We both walked up to a show case and put our hands on the edge and it was HOT! My wife recoiled from the heat. It wasn't enough to burn, but I couldn't believe those little bulbs were heating up the metal edge like that. You have a very nice store by the way!

[Apache Warrior]

Thank you.
They may have had Halogens inside the upper edge, of the showcases, shining down on the jewelry.
Apache

[Jeffro]

whats your take on the cost advantage if anything?
on another notes .. if a jumbalia doesn't have rice what is it called again?

cost advantage... well this is my problem right now. LED's are far too expensive still. In my opinion you might be better off with compact fluorescents, depending on your application.

If money isn't an issue, i would go with name brand LED's. Such as Sylvania, Phillips or GE. Generic brands have worse color quality in the lighting and it shows.

Also, if you would like dimming options, LED's are dimmable now. Well the ones that are set for dimming I mean.

[ryanbatc]

I can't stand the color tone from CFL's... maybe I got the wrong ones but they look horrendous and take time to warm up. Argh!

[goldenfooler]

yes they will take a warm up time. Don't put in any place like the outdoors.

[Qicmee]

CFL color - It's different than incandescent. A few years ago CFLs got banned from our bathroom because they tuned my wife's peach color scheme into pink.

More recently they offer several different shades to choose from. Maybe you could try one of the "daylight" ones (color temp 5000-5500K).

Warm up time - CFLs are a good morning wake-up bulb because they start gently.

[Jeffro]

I can't stand the color tone from CFL's... maybe I got the wrong ones but they look horrendous and take time to warm up. Argh!

well it all depends on what "color" your are getting... they have cool white, warm white, daylight... etc...

[goldenfooler]

CFL color - It's different than incandescent. A few years ago CFLs got banned from our bathroom because they tuned my wife's peach color scheme into pink.

[DougBob]

I like the 6500K and up tubes. The 3500K are just ugly and I hate that they are trying to reproduce the yellow effect of incandescent bulbs.

I've started replacing the CFLs in the house with LED and messed up with a few at the 3500K range.

As far as the question about heat from incandescent! The heat generated by them is so minimum if you notice any difference in heating cost it would be in the cents.

On the how long the CFLs last, they don't last anywhere as long as they should or originally did. They have started making the MTBF way lower than when they first come out.

As far as I know the LED market hasn't been corrupted by the manufacturing factor yet, but I could be wrong.

[ryanbatc]

well it all depends on what "color" your are getting... they have cool white, warm white, daylight... etc...

Oh? I didn't know they had those.... hmmm I'll have to check them out.