Comments on: ChromaLit Contour LED light bulb now available

By: New_man84

New_man84 — Sun, 06 May 2012 02:29:00 +0000

You realize people aren’t buying these for the money savings, right?

By: jhdale

jhdale — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:35:00 +0000

Nothing really new here… except the 100W equivalent versions. Higher power bulbs have been an issue with LEDs. So that is nice to see.

Would like to hear whether these are also dimmable, and how well.

By: George

George — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:14:00 +0000

Of course that is at 50 bucks a piece! Any more and the payback stretches out into another decade!

By: George

George — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:12:00 +0000

These LED’s are ridiculous. They are on in the home for an average 3 hours a day. At 50 bucks and $0.10 a KwH check this out. To pay for them a 12w LED to replace a 60w standard saves 48 Watts per hour. To save 50 bucks @ $0.10 a Kwh thats a total of 500 Kwh saving to buy the LED. At 48 watts per hour saved that equals 10416.66 hours burning. at 3 hours a day that’s 9.5 years to get your investment back. Chip technology is moiving so rapidly the item above is obsolete before you get it to your home! So question is why spend 50 bucks on a product that is obsolete? I read a very interesting blog by the MD of the Lamp Company in the UK this week. Even the Manufacturers are wilting under these technologial advances!