LED kitchen light ?s

[DeathGrip]

Educate me on them please.

I have a 13 inch round flush mount in that came with the house. It's standard Home Depot and looks OK but I still don't like it. Why? It's compact florescent and weak and too yellow.

Lucky me it just burned out so I got to looking at LEDs.

One ? comes to mind. Single LED or multi LED

I need bright light and I need a dimmer for when I don't need to see as well.

Thoughts and suggestions appreciated. (wise cracks welcome also)

Merry Christmas.

 

[DWalt]

It's not too clear what type of fixture you are referring to. Sounds like it's using screw base CFLs. There are dimmable screw base LED bulbs, a bit more expensive than those that don't dim.

I have many 4' fluorescent fixtures in my home - garage, kitchen, over bathroom sinks, in a large storage room, my office, on a sunporch, etc. I have converted them to LED tubes. I shouldn't ever have to change out a LED tube or a ballast - as there are no ballasts.

 

[Watchdog]

Educate me on them please.

I have a 13 inch round flush mount in that came with the house. It's standard Home Depot and looks OK but I still don't like it. Why? It's compact florescent and weak and too yellow.

Lucky me it just burned out so I got to looking at LEDs.

Merry Christmas.

LEDs are definitely the way to go. I like bright white light in the kitchen, and I do run dimmers in every room, not just the kitchen.

But just for information's sake, compact flourescents do come as dimmable now, and there are various color temperatures. If you're going to stick with the flourescents, get the ones marked "Daylight" or some are even labeled "sunlight", but I don't see too many of those.

 

[DeathGrip]

It's not too clear what type of fixture you are referring to. Sounds like it's using screw base CFLs. There are dimmable screw base LED bulbs, a bit more expensive than those that don't dim.

I have many 4' fluorescent fixtures in my home - garage, kitchen, over bathroom sinks, in a large storage room, my office, on a sunporch, etc. I have converted them to LED tubes. I shouldn't ever have to change out a LED tube or a ballast - as there are no ballasts.

I guess I needed to say that I want to upgrade to a new fixture a little nicer but about the same size. I'm not about buying another bulb for a CFL that I don't care for. It was OK but there's nicer ones. Dimmable LEDs are what I like best and have been buying bulbs to replace everything that I have. When the florescent lights go in the garage I'll replace them with LED. Maybe sooner.

Thanks

 

[JayCeeNC]

I replaced my old round fluorescent kitchen ceiling light with an LED version the same size. It has a flat panel inside with about 12 or so LED bulbs. Got it at Home Depot or Lowes. Fit perfectly, instant-on, weighs virtually nothing, and a bit more light.
It will probably outlast the house.

 

[DeathGrip]

I replaced my old round fluorescent kitchen ceiling light with an LED version the same size. It has a flat panel inside with about 12 or so LED bulbs. Got it at Home Depot or Lowes. Fit perfectly, instant-on, weighs virtually nothing, and a bit more light.
It will probably outlast the house.

I guess that's my main question, Is there an advantage to more diodes or is it about more bulbs? or,,,, How many diodes per bulb?

Thanks

 

[rwsmith]

The color is white and bright...

LEDs have a bright white light, don't give off much heat and use less power. There are dimmer bulbs available. I have five 100 watters in a chandelier that gives off good light for my old eyes. They work GREAT for outside because they really put out the light and have a genuinely long life unlike those crummy CFLs. And there's no delay lighting up like there is in crummy CFLs.

I believe that if you get a newer dimmer, the lights will use less power when dimmed. The older dimmers dim the light, but still use the same amount of power.

I have some places where I would like a warmer colored bulb. I suppose they'll get around to making them sometime.

 

[DWalt]

I notice that at the "99 Cents Only" stores, their 60 watt (equiv) LED bulbs are - a dollar. I wish they had brighter ones, 75 or 100 watts. I have replaced almost all my incandescent bulbs with LED bulbs. When an incandescent bulb goes, it is replaced by an LED bulb. Yesterday I installed a motion detector security light fixture in the area outside my front door. It has two surprisingly bright LED reflector floods, they light up that area like daytime.

 

[Arik]

I've been switching to daylight LED as the old bulbs go bad. Turn it on and it's like daytime even in daytime!

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[chief38]

I've got a fairly large Kitchen (26 x 22) and we have about 15 Hi-Hat fixture (not including the 3 Pendant fixtures over the Island and many under the Counter). I use Energy Saver Halogen lighting in them. First off I like the light color they give off - as opposed to the "fake color light" the LED's do and while they do generate heat, that's a good thing for at least 8 months a year around here. In the Summer months I dim them a little and since we have them on 3 separate Dimmer Switches I have full control of how bright and hot they get.

I have never been an LED fan although I do use them in our Laundry room. I believe that's the only place in the house I have them. Hopefully they will improve drastically from the ones available now. I also have Fluorescent light fixtures in my Garage and Work Shop but supplement that with incandescent fixtures directly over where I work. I dislike the cool fluorescent light and only use it for general purpose lighting - going to the incandescent for "working light" in those two rooms.

As in many cases, I am probably in the minority here - so what else is new?

 

[STCM(SW)]

I have replaced all the bulbs with LED one's.
The kitchen fixture was a CFL round that went bad and replaced it with a 42 watt one.
I like lots of light in the kitchen....

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

For the shop I changed from CFL to three foot LED fixtures from Sam's Club. Love em.

LEDs come in a lot of different light tones. I don't like the brilliant white lights in the house. The LEDs we have inside the house well mimic the incandescent they replaced. When replacing some of our canned lighting I left an incandescent in and asked the wife if she could pick it out. She couldn't.

 

[Maddog 521]

I have heard that you have to change the dimmer switch if you put in LED bulbs. Is this true?

 

[Rule3]

I've been switching to daylight LED as the old bulbs go bad. Turn it on and it's like daytime even in daytime!

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That's what we did also.

For the OP just get the brightest (equivalent) that you want LED in whatever "color"(soft, daylight etc you want. Make sure it says dimmable,

 

[Muss Muggins]

I've noticed it's harder and harder to buy anything but LED bulbs around here . . .

 

[Arik]

I've got a fairly large Kitchen (26 x 22) and we have about 15 Hi-Hat fixture (not including the 3 Pendant fixtures over the Island and many under the Counter). I use Energy Saver Halogen lighting in them. First off I like the light color they give off - as opposed to the "fake color light" the LED's do and while they do generate heat, that's a good thing for at least 8 months a year around here. In the Summer months I dim them a little and since we have them on 3 separate Dimmer Switches I have full control of how bright and hot they get.

I have never been an LED fan although I do use them in our Laundry room. I believe that's the only place in the house I have them. Hopefully they will improve drastically from the ones available now. I also have Fluorescent light fixtures in my Garage and Work Shop but supplement that with incandescent fixtures directly over where I work. I dislike the cool fluorescent light and only use it for general purpose lighting - going to the incandescent for "working light" in those two rooms.

As in many cases, I am probably in the minority here - so what else is new?

Lol yea...what? I don't even know what half of that meant. I just want it to not be dark and easier then candles

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[blues7]

I switched all the canned BR-30's in the house to LED versions, and the central kitchen fixture to a large round / flat model from Lowe's that had, if I recall correctly, 90 LEDs around the circumference of the unit.

The first day I thought I was in a hospital operating theater but that quickly passed.

LEDs are great. You can get them to suit your taste from whiter / bluer to the yellower side of the spectrum and they save money. (Plus you don't have to be bothered changing bulbs all the time. I even put them in our ceiling fans which always seemed to need a bulb change.)

 

[Old TexMex]

My old hacienda is all LED now. The load on my wiring is greatly reduced.
The home depot flush mount (dome) lights in the kitchen are the same color range as the old soft white incandescents. They are unit construction, no way to replace an emitter (tiny little light bulbs), but supposedly they last “forever”. I don’t need dimmables in my kitchen. I likes plenty of light.Commercial Electric 11 in. 60-Watt Equivalent Oil-Rubbed Bronze Integrated LED Flushmount with Frosted White Glass Shade-HUI8011L-2/ORB - The Home Depot
I use home depot “Defiant” out door light. They are super super bright. About $90 each, but they’ve been tested in 130mph wind, and passed with flying colors.Defiant White Integrated LED Switch Light-DFI-5775-WH - The Home Depot

(I don’t work for Home Depot.......yet)

 

[JSR III]

Personally, I prefer candles and kerosene lanterns.

 

[Bekeart]

LEDs may interfere with radio reception

LEDs may interfere with my FM radio reception.

I am using mostly LEDs.
BUT, when I turn on certain LED spotlights I can not listen to my FM radio.
They generate frequencies that cause radio interference.
Turn the lights off and there is no interference.

This is specific to the LED spotlights in a particular fixture.
Being a retired broadcast engineer, I could open up the fixture and fabricate an interference filter.
Currently I choose - Radio or Lights.

For those old timers: Just as a diode could be uses as a detector for radio frequencies,
a diode can also generate radio frequencies.

Adding clarification - the diode I mentioned as receiving radio frequencies was commonly known as a CRYSTAL RADIO.


Bekeart