for high brightness high CRI, I build lamps of out of Bridgelux modules. where 'building a lamp' generally means 'screwing the module to a heatsink'. they are p

for high brightness high CRI, I build lamps of out of Bridgelux modules. where 'building a lamp' generally means 'screwing the module to a heatsink'. they are pretty cheap ($14 at digikey for a 30W module) last quite a long time if you cool them properly. you do have to hook them up to an appropriate constant current power supply which does involve some familiarity with what current and voltage are. I readily admit that's too DYI for most consumers, but the market is really only doing a good job of pumping out LED bulbs that fit into standard sockets and have dubious and variable light quality. you kind of just have to buy of bunch of them and throw out 80% for being too harsh, or too green, or simply failing. we could have better standards (mechanical, electrical) that accommodate the technology shift. we could have more useful and flexible product lines that rethink the way we distribute power for lighting. the dimmer situation is nightmarish for consumers - dimming LEDs is trivial, but the consumer definition of dimmer is 'triac AC chopper' by default - not because they chose that why isn't consumer capitalism fixing this? this is supposed to be what its best at.