Cree LED Lamp found at a thrift shop for a Whole .49 Cents! Works Well and is SUPER bright...no Ideal on Model or wattage....but im sure the original cost is higher than .49 Cents....a Steal for the price.
It should say the wattage and/or lumens on the base somewhere in microscopic print. I have two 60W= versions of these that I got used at the ReStore for 25 cents each. Definitely a steal! I refuse to pay full price for LEDs but I'll convert my whole house to LED if I can get the bulbs for next to nothing.
i may or may not decide to pull this where i have it to try and identify it....but the brightness does indeed look about that of a 100 Watt Incandescent.
Model is BA-21,all Lamp specs in description have been updated accordingly....indeed it is the 100W Version. where i had it at was opperating Base-Up i did note some deformation of the Rubbery Coating on the heatsinks plus the heatsink and the base of the lamp were Shockingly very hot.
Wow really? I didn't think LED lamps ran that hot, but the heat sink on these Cree lamps is pretty small. But I like these. The warm white ones mimic an inside-frost lamp pretty well. While I like 5000K lamps in general, not a fan of the 5000K versions of these since it just looks weird, being made to look like an inside frost incandescent while being such a cool tone lol.
Yeah the ones I have installed do get hot but it's not unbearable. I've only had one go out since I swapped my entire house out and it was in an enclosed fixture.
I did note the warning on the base to not install in an enclosed fixture. However this was in an open fixture. Were not talking warm or even mildly hot the lamp was hot enough to burn me. :plus one diode in the LED cluster flickers periodically. I bought a GE LED lamp at Walmart today of similar color & output. Was rolled back 50% its original price. Will post later probably tomorrow.
I'd like to get some LEDs to replace the CFLs in my kitchen and dining room. However, I'd need eight lamps to do that and they'd all have to match. Odds of finding that many at a greatly reduced price aren't high. I'm to cheap to pay full price for them, especially when I have plenty of the CFLs. The CFLs work fine and the color doesn't bother me all that much but HPS lamps warm up faster than they do!
I've had 4 LED failures out of the 30 or so I have in use around the house. All name brand too , two Cree, one Philips, and one Sylvania. They all replaced spiral CFLs.
I paid full price for a few but most were either from power company promo programs or from Restore at reduced prices. As for the dead ones, I'll either send them in for warranty or attempt to fix them myself.
Well this New GE LED i have was Rolled Back to around 8 Bucks,original price was hovering around the 18 Dollar Mark....and plenty of LED's in the Lamp Section were rolled back signifigantly off their original price. Am i suprised? not one bit. they probably wernt moving alot of them at their lofty prices! Still this Cree....if it only lasts a Few months it's lived its .49 Cent Life!
Both this Cree & the GE....extremely impressed with the Light quality. looks very much so like a 100 Watt Incandescent bulb.
on the Cree bulb the Frost is less than the GE it makes the LED Cluster visable which is arranged in a Ring in the center of the bulb much like a Filament with LED's facing up and down. The GE has more of a Frost thats less transparent that makes the LED's within not visable....Color & brightness are impressive im more concerned with the Life.
like said if the Cree dies relatively soon...itll be a loss sure but i only paid .49 Cents for it....the GE on the otherhand though discounted is still an 8 Dollar Lamp.
I guess $8 isn't terrible but definitely more than I'd be spending on bulbs. I've seen some Sylvania LEDs at Lowe's for around $5 but they're the "a-shaped" ones that look like reflector lamps (just like the Philips ones). The local JCPenny's here has some GE LEDs in use. The ones that have an A21 shaped body with little white flanges around it. Looks just like an incandescent but with the white flanges. If they sold them around here I'd get some but WalMart and Target are the only GE LED carriers and Target's overpriced. I honestly haven't looked into WalMart's lighting selection too much. I've looked at their fluorescent stuff (not a bad selection but nothing like Lowes or Home Depot). LOL yeah for 49 cents you can't go wrong!
Most of the discounted LEDs available in my area are either Philips or Cree. The Sylvanias I bought were also discounted but they were on store clearance lol. I've never tried the GE LEDs before, they're a bit harder to find as only WalMart sells them. Target used to sell them but they closed up shop back in May.
Yeah my only LED experiences are Cree (60W=) Philips (75W=) and Utilitech aka Panasonic (40W=). The Panasonic ones are in my bedroom and a few years old now. They've done well. They're 7.5W. The Cree ones are either 8W or 8.5W and I think the Philips is 15W.
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I paid full price for a few but most were either from power company promo programs or from Restore at reduced prices. As for the dead ones, I'll either send them in for warranty or attempt to fix them myself.
Both this Cree & the GE....extremely impressed with the Light quality. looks very much so like a 100 Watt Incandescent bulb.
on the Cree bulb the Frost is less than the GE it makes the LED Cluster visable which is arranged in a Ring in the center of the bulb much like a Filament with LED's facing up and down. The GE has more of a Frost thats less transparent that makes the LED's within not visable....Color & brightness are impressive im more concerned with the Life.
like said if the Cree dies relatively soon...itll be a loss sure but i only paid .49 Cents for it....the GE on the otherhand though discounted is still an 8 Dollar Lamp.