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I built a house a couple years ago where the lighting used is predominately LED bulbs and I absolutely hate it. The pre-determined lighting plan for the home wa
by brandon272 10y ago
I built a house a couple years ago where the lighting used is predominately LED bulbs and I absolutely hate it. The pre-determined lighting plan for the home was presumably based on the brightness given off by certain incandescent bulbs and placing LED bulbs in those locations that are supposed to be wattage equivalent has resulted in a fairly dark house with what I would consider to be low quality of light. Many of the bulbs used in certain fixtures also emit a noticeable high pitched noise when on.
- stephen_g 10y agoSounds like pretty rubbish bulbs. Have you not tried replacing even one with a good quality brand? Of course, it might also just be that the lighting design wasn't very good in the first place...
- brandon272 10y agoI have no idea what a good quality brand is. And if I did find better bulbs it would cost a fortune to replace all of the bulbs I just bought two years ago.
- CamperBob2 10y agoSounds like somebody spent a lot of money without doing any research. I must have tried samples of a half-dozen different brands before buying enough LED bulbs to retrofit all of my ceiling cans. Actually I sort of wasted my time, because the (subsidized) $2.99 65w replacements from the hardware store on the corner proved to be as good as any of them. No failures a year later (N = about 36) so they seem to be working out OK.
- stephen_g 10y agoSimilar story here, I found my favourite LED bulbs at the supermarket!
- HNaTTY 10y agoIf they're on dimmer circuits, they could just be cheap LED bulbs. Even if the dimmer is all the way up, and even if the LED bulb is marketed as dimmable.