Only 9 lightbulbs out of 58 left in the house that are not LEDs. I love LED lights. There's little reason now to buy anything else to replace medium screw in type base (your traditional lightbulb type) bulbs up to 75 watt equivalent. Costco and Home Depot sell these bulbs at prices that make even CFL bulbs look expensive.
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Jenny H.,
Amit Patel,
Spidra Webster,
Jennifer Dittrich,
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Not to mention that LED bulbs contain no mercury.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I've always thought of CFLs as a transitional technology and I won't be sad to see them go. I never really worried about the mercury in them much though, because depending on how you get your power (like if it's coal), the amount of mercury in a CFL was less than the amount of mercury that would have been released into the air by the power plant generating the power you would have used if you hadn't put in the CFL.
- Brian Johns
i've replaced all but two of our many 100 watt incandescent outdoor floods with equivalent output LED bulbs. the mothership WILL know where to land!
- Big Joe Silenced
I bought a multi-pack of CFLs eight years ago. A pack of six, I believe. Three of them are still unused. Might be time to switch over to LEDs...
- Julian
Making the LED switch as well. The lunatic fringe carping about making incandescents illegal cracks me up. You can buy LEDs every bit as warm as incandescents and they last so much longer.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
The only place I've had trouble are with some older, dome lighting fixtures. Some of those are either too narrow, or too short, to fit most of the LED or fluorescent bulbs I've bought. The domes were mostly easy to replace with slightly larger versions, but I did have to replace them.
- Jennifer Dittrich