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Yes. And I think there's some benefit to the planet from incandescent bulbs being a simple and cheap technology to manufacture (although I have no justification

Yes. And I think there's some benefit to the planet from incandescent bulbs being a simple and cheap technology to manufacture (although I have no justification for this belief). Anyhow, I agree about incandescent bulbs being nice. I never found a CFL I was happy with. The Philips LED bulbs are very good though: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Philips-Bayonet-Light-Bulb-Frosted/dp/B01KHILBIE https://www.amazon.co.uk/Philips-Bayonet-Light-Bulb-Frosted/... They don't flicker (and I'm someone infuriated by PWM'd lights on modern cars). They achieve full brightness instantly. The colour temperature and spectral rendering index is good. They are much more reliable than some similar unbranded bulbs I've seen (about 15 such bulbs were installed in my kitchen area at work. They fail at a rate of about one per month, in a manor consistent with this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Pemtc3Uhw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Pemtc3Uhw). They do cost £9 for two though. They'll need to run for about 500 hours to pay for themselves (vs incandescent). I reckon the first one I bought has run for about 2500 hours by now.

PhantomGremlin 9y ago
The older Philips LED bulbs were very high quality. Dimmable, no flicker, power factor corrected. Here's a youtube teardown. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWKAub54sLU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWKAub54sLU Compare the internal circuitry with the youtube video you linked to. Yours were a cheaper design. No wonder the bulbs failed so quickly. Nowadays Philips seem to be selling both a higher quality and a lower quality bulb in each wattage. To me the purchase price isn't an issue. I have a few places where I run bulbs 15 or 20 hrs a day. So moving from 60 W to 10 W in those locations made an incredible cost savings. Where I am in the USA, a 1 W load on continuously costs $1/yr. So saving 50 W in a location that's on about 80% of the time saves me $40/yr in electricity. For just one bulb.

PhantomGremlin 9y ago

The older Philips LED bulbs were very high quality. Dimmable, no flicker, power factor corrected. Here's a youtube teardown. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWKAub54sLU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWKAub54sLU Compare the internal circuitry with the youtube video you linked to. Yours were a cheaper design. No wonder the bulbs failed so quickly. Nowadays Philips seem to be selling both a higher quality and a lower quality bulb in each wattage. To me the purchase price isn't an issue. I have a few places where I run bulbs 15 or 20 hrs a day. So moving from 60 W to 10 W in those locations made an incredible cost savings. Where I am in the USA, a 1 W load on continuously costs $1/yr. So saving 50 W in a location that's on about 80% of the time saves me $40/yr in electricity. For just one bulb.