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LED lights can look like anything. My son has LED lights in his room that can flash in all the colours of the rainbow. We have a couple of LED bulbs that do a v
by mcv 3y ago
LED lights can look like anything. My son has LED lights in his room that can flash in all the colours of the rainbow. We have a couple of LED bulbs that do a very good approximation of those dim incandescent bulbs were you can clearly see the filaments.
Just shop around for better LED lights. There's a lot of variation out there.
- rini17 3y agoShop where? Surely not in your nearest retail, you'll have hard time to get consistent quality (flicker free, CRI, consistent color temperature, and perhaps most important, longevity)
- elmerfud 3y agoShop at Amazon. If it doesn't match the description return it. I usually buy daylight bulbs and only one time did I have color matching problems even with different brands.
- mikecoles 3y agoSkip the middle-man markup and go to the source. Amazon adds no value, only cost. https://www.aliexpress.us/w/wholesale-incandescent-e27.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.search.0 https://www.aliexpress.us/w/wholesale-incandescent-e27.html?... Or Alibaba if you want even cheaper prices at the expense of some research time.
- mcv 3y ago"Skip the middle man, get it at Chinese Amazon instead"? If you want to skip the middle man, order it directly from the manufacturer. And there are tons of webshops selling a very wide selection of led lights. No need to send people to the big monopolists.
- nyanmatt 3y agoCan you list some of those shops? I'm hard pressed to find one that isn't selling items that were drop-shipped to them from Aliexpress/baba and then marked up. It may not be direct from the manufacturer, but going from N-middlemen to 1-middleman is about the best you can do right now.
- marcosdumay 3y agoIt's Chinese Ebay, where the manufacturer is selling. Most of them won't even accept direct orders.
- codingdave 3y agoHome Depot. Or probably any other big-box home improvement store. They have far more selections for lighting than other retail stores.
- ballenf 3y agoCREE and Philips bulbs are 3-5x the price of Home Depot's cheapest LEDs but for me pay for themselves in their longevity and quality.
- codingdave 3y agoOK, but if you are willing to pay 3-5x vs the cheapest LEDS, that seems like an odd comparison. Are the ones at Home Depot that are 3-5x the cost of their cheapest bulbs also underperforming compared to the ones you bought?
- taylodl 3y agoCREE isn't that much more expensive where I live - I haven't needed to buy one in a while(!) but the last time I bought one I'd say they were more like 30% to 50% more, not 3x to 5x. The CREE is definitely cheaper than the Phillips. That's why I use CREE. Fantastic bulbs at a reasonable price - a truly good value!
- sumtechguy 3y agono kidding. I just bought a set of them. 3 levels of brightness and 2 k levels and a few different colors. If you shop around more you can get stuff that is even more complex and programmable. I mostly wanted something a bit more yellow and dimmable. The trick is to look at the kelvin levels. Find the bulb you have find out its k level and pick an LED that is close to that or can do that.
- Syonyk 3y agoThey can look, to your eyes, "like anything." The problem is that the spectrum, which impacts "how other things look to your eyes," can be a wide range of things, ranging from "quite decent" to "a hot, peaky mess." They look the same in terms of how your eyes perceive the bulb, but other things will look very different. If you've ever had a pure RGB LED, and wondered why things look "wrong" when it's set to white, that's the problem - it's three very peaky emissions, and while it looks white, everything else looks wrong in it. CRI measures this, and as soon as you get the RGB emitters online, the multi-color bulb CRIs tend to head downhill in a hurry. You can see spectrometer graphs from a Philips bulb I reviewed here: https://www.sevarg.net/2023/03/11/philips-smart-wifi-bulbs/ https://www.sevarg.net/2023/03/11/philips-smart-wifi-bulbs/ - it's a good bit better than some of the other bulbs, but it's still easy to get it off the white emitter and into the peaky RGB emitters.
- fzil 3y agowow, as soon as we switched to LED bulbs I noticed something was "off" in the house and couldn't really put my finger on it. Thanks for this comment, I guess I gotta do some research on this now.
- marcosdumay 3y agoWow, those bulbs are very good. Way better than I expected from smart RGB bulbs. Any random bulb one can get on the market will be way worse, probably even the white ones. But yes, anything under than will still look "blueish" if it reflects the right tones of blue, or "brownish" if it only reflects the wrong ones. It's just much better than almost every other LED.