Great value lamps are 11 watts & 850 lumens /2700K. It's worth noting that the GV lamps have a glass construction and have a more realistic yellow incandescent color. The GEs while having a similar color temperature have a slightly pinkish tone much like many warm white CFLS I've seen. They are also plastic in construction rated at 10 watts 650 lumens.
Are the Walmart ones newer? I'm pretty impressed with how far LEDs have come these past couple of years. I really like the new filament lamps and all-glass construction. I know what you mean by that pinkish color. ICK! I hate it. One of the reasons I didn't like CFLs (I liked the 3500K CFLs but they were really only available online).
I don't know if the GV Lamps are newer I bought them days apart. At different walmarts too. The GV lamps have greater overall performance on another note. They are noticeably brighter and the beam is sharper and more focused unlike the GEs with their frosted look faces. Those are still satisfactory though.
Ah OK. I guess the GEs are just an older design still in production. The WalMart ones look and sound like they're better quality. Hopefully they last. I assume they were cheaper than the GEs. Last time I looked at the WalMart lamp section the GE ones were quite a bit more expensive and the early WalMart LEDs were actually GEs I think!
How do you figure the GEs are the older lamps? I thought the all plastic construction would be newer or at least that's my assumption. As far as pricing goes the GEs came in a four pack for under 18 dollars the GV Lamps were 7 dollars and some change for a Two pack.
No things are going back to glass. Have you heard of LED filament lamps? that's the new thing. They look just like real incandescents to an untrained eye! I suspect the same concept was applied to this.
The GE lamps might not be older, but they're at least an older design. Philips just came out with their own filament LEDs available at HD for like $7 for a 4pk. Not a terrible price. Especially considering they look like legit incandescent bulbs and are made from glass! I'm really impressed. They fill the lamp with a gas that helps get rid of the heat and the glass is a far better heat sink than plastic. The circuit board is microscopic and mounted in the screw base of the lamp. I have half dozen or so from Greenlite and couldn't be happier with them (I just wish 100 and 150W= filament LEDs would come out but I guess all in time...). They even make LED filament lamps for exit signs, which other members have posted pics of on LG (they're even WalMart/GV brand).
that's interesting. going back to glass that is. Yeah those Great Value one's do a mighty fine impression of an Incandescent PAR Lamp in all aspects.
i figured glass would dissapate lamp heat better. and if the lamp or its electronics should happen to fail in a way that generates excess heat at least it wont melt.
My room is lit with the Great Value ones... well not like this but the regular ones, the ceiling fan has GU24 sockets (bleh...) And I got a bunch of adapters on ebay, and I have the adapters with the 100 watt equivalent daylight ones. The closet has the same two in the lights themselves, and then I have my florescent light above the bed... The bathroom has just a mixture of like a GE, 2 Great Values, and then three Lowe's generic lamps. All the same color tempurature. While the light above the shower (which the cover is getting filled up with dead bugs... bleh.. again..) is just the same daylight 100w equiv ones.
The GV lamps are pretty good, I mean.. I can get those and any other lamp they sell at Walmart for 10% off cause I work for the company. xD But they haven't disappointed me yet. And...
I can't believe how cheap the LED Lamps have gotten since a couple years ago.
LED lamp prices are very reasonable for most of them I've seen. A couple are still pricey but still at most walmart stores I've been to the selection of CFLS has dwindled to nearly nothing. Leds dominate the lamp section and I have yet to be truly disappointed by any I've bought.
Yeah the 40 and 60W LEDs are very affordable. The 75W and 100W LEDs are still expensive here though (in comparison to the 40 and 60W equivalent ones). You can buy a 3pk of the 60W= LEDs for the price of one 100W= LED. We used mostly 60W incandescents in my house but I'd like to use 75W= LEDs to increase the brightness. I mean, LEDs use SO much less energy I'd even consider using 100W= LEDs but it would just be overkill unless I installed dimmer switches on everything. Some cities are doing that here. They're using LEDs that are brighter than the HPS (even using close to the same wattage as HPS) and using nodes that dim the LEDs to like 40-60% brightness. They will brighten the street lights to full intensity during storms, when there's a fire (help firemen see), a terrorist attack, nighttime festival, or anytime higher-than-normal light levels are needed.
The nodes can also shut off specific lights, strobe them (they could flash the lights along an emergency evacuation route for people to follow). The nodes are also self-metering, meaning the city gets billed for ACTUAL power usage instead of a biased utility estimate. The nodes can run dusk-to-dawn or be set to the atomic clock or manually controlled to operate during the day for testing or be shut off at night if a road is closed for construction or something. The nodes can also be fail-on or fail-off. They also keep real-time communication with a computer system operated by the city and contain GPS tracking so service crews and use GPS to drive right to where the light is instead of looking up pole numbers and street names (it also means if you find an LED street light on the ground, remove the node and leave it on-scene since the nodes have battery backup to maintain communication with the network in the event of power loss).
Really high-tech stuff. Granted, it's way more technology than we need for street lighting but it's the way of the future. Some guy at city hall can control the whole city's street lights from a government laptop or smartphone. The nodes I'm specifically talking about are made by CIMCON and used by RIDOT, Providence, RI, and Worcester, MA.
Yeah the 100 Watt Equivalent LED's are pretty Darn bright. i have a few.
reguarding the high-tech LED streetlights? i honestly feel like that's overkill & it sounds expensive.
i can't say for sure if there's any "Smart" LED Streetlights in my area. i do know Fort-Worth has been slower to adopt LED Streetlighting than the city of Arlington. a Vast majority of streetlights in Arlington are LED. Even LED highmasts and Freeway lighting.
Fort Worth appeared to test 150 Watt MH AE's for awhile then jumped to LED. you'll see spot replacements which is annoying. but go down certain Streets like Lancaster Ave,Evans Ave or A long Stretch of Seminary and there's Long Long strings of LED replacements. and they look pretty good at night too.
Same here, even the 100W LEDs are getting affordable since the government is heavily subsidizing them. I've gotten 100w = LEDs for 2-3 bucks here before. I only wish the filament ones were this cheap here lol.
Most LEDs streetlights here also use the wireless nodes but I've been noticing some of the later conversions (the ones performed in summer 2015) using what looks more like conventional PCs instead of the nodes. I wonder if they found the nodes to been too expensive. They also spot replaced a couple of dead LED streetlights with FCO HPS cobras so I suspect they might have went over budget on the changeout. A lot of intersections are still drop lens or FCO HPS too.
On the flip side, I've seen HPS cobraheads and even a vintage gumball retrofitted with those wireless node controllers.
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The GE lamps might not be older, but they're at least an older design. Philips just came out with their own filament LEDs available at HD for like $7 for a 4pk. Not a terrible price. Especially considering they look like legit incandescent bulbs and are made from glass! I'm really impressed. They fill the lamp with a gas that helps get rid of the heat and the glass is a far better heat sink than plastic. The circuit board is microscopic and mounted in the screw base of the lamp. I have half dozen or so from Greenlite and couldn't be happier with them (I just wish 100 and 150W= filament LEDs would come out but I guess all in time...). They even make LED filament lamps for exit signs, which other members have posted pics of on LG (they're even WalMart/GV brand).
i figured glass would dissapate lamp heat better. and if the lamp or its electronics should happen to fail in a way that generates excess heat at least it wont melt.
The GV lamps are pretty good, I mean.. I can get those and any other lamp they sell at Walmart for 10% off cause I work for the company. xD But they haven't disappointed me yet. And...
I can't believe how cheap the LED Lamps have gotten since a couple years ago.
The nodes can also shut off specific lights, strobe them (they could flash the lights along an emergency evacuation route for people to follow). The nodes are also self-metering, meaning the city gets billed for ACTUAL power usage instead of a biased utility estimate. The nodes can run dusk-to-dawn or be set to the atomic clock or manually controlled to operate during the day for testing or be shut off at night if a road is closed for construction or something. The nodes can also be fail-on or fail-off. They also keep real-time communication with a computer system operated by the city and contain GPS tracking so service crews and use GPS to drive right to where the light is instead of looking up pole numbers and street names (it also means if you find an LED street light on the ground, remove the node and leave it on-scene since the nodes have battery backup to maintain communication with the network in the event of power loss).
Really high-tech stuff. Granted, it's way more technology than we need for street lighting but it's the way of the future. Some guy at city hall can control the whole city's street lights from a government laptop or smartphone. The nodes I'm specifically talking about are made by CIMCON and used by RIDOT, Providence, RI, and Worcester, MA.
reguarding the high-tech LED streetlights? i honestly feel like that's overkill & it sounds expensive.
i can't say for sure if there's any "Smart" LED Streetlights in my area. i do know Fort-Worth has been slower to adopt LED Streetlighting than the city of Arlington. a Vast majority of streetlights in Arlington are LED. Even LED highmasts and Freeway lighting.
Fort Worth appeared to test 150 Watt MH AE's for awhile then jumped to LED. you'll see spot replacements which is annoying. but go down certain Streets like Lancaster Ave,Evans Ave or A long Stretch of Seminary and there's Long Long strings of LED replacements. and they look pretty good at night too.
Most LEDs streetlights here also use the wireless nodes but I've been noticing some of the later conversions (the ones performed in summer 2015) using what looks more like conventional PCs instead of the nodes. I wonder if they found the nodes to been too expensive. They also spot replaced a couple of dead LED streetlights with FCO HPS cobras so I suspect they might have went over budget on the changeout. A lot of intersections are still drop lens or FCO HPS too.
On the flip side, I've seen HPS cobraheads and even a vintage gumball retrofitted with those wireless node controllers.