{"id":992,"date":"2014-04-03T22:03:26","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T03:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2014\/04\/03\/140403-ledlightbulb\/"},"modified":"2022-05-31T19:25:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T00:25:31","slug":"140403-ledlightbulb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2014\/04\/03\/140403-ledlightbulb\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to a Bulb"},"content":{"rendered":"

I subscribe to a small number of retail email lists that notify me of “special deals” on items that are of general interest to me…primarily electronics and some sporting goods. I rarely end up ordering anything via those e-flyers, but the one exception is Best Buy’s “Deal of the Day” email<\/a>. I’ve gotten some really good savings on things like memory cards and flash drives; these items pop up on the email frequently. And now I have another product that I’ll be watching for: light bulbs.<\/p>\n

The primary lighting source in our home is 65-watt equivalent indoor flood lamps in recessed ceiling fixtures (aka canned lights). I’ve never counted them but I’m guessing we have about thirty, and that adds up to a pretty significant investment in light bulbs. Our current bulb of choice is that evil incandescent model that haunts Al Gore’s nightmares.<\/p>\n

I’ve never been enamored with CFL bulbs. I gave the swirlies a whirl in our previous house and didn’t see any greater life in those bulbs as compared to incandescents, and found the non-instant-on feature quite annoying. I’m all in favor of saving energy, but just can’t see the devil in incandescent bulbs that everyone claims is lurking there.<\/p>\n

I would, however, be quite open to trying an LED bulb, even though the strings of LED Christmas lights we used in the past were ridiculously wimpy. So, when Best Buy advertised these LED indoor floods<\/a> for half price, I was intrigued. I put an order in for three of them, and have been using a couple in our home office for about a week. I’m very happy with the result.<\/p>\n

\"LED<\/p>\n

Even though the bulbs are slightly smaller than the ones they replaced, they’re actually brighter, and they put out almost no heat, which will be a blessing when (if?) we get into serious summer. I have no idea if their lifespan will come close to the ridiculous-sounding claim on the box, but even if it’s only half as good, it will still be better than the incandescents.<\/p>\n

At a couple of sawbucks per bulb, I’m not anxious to undertake a wide scale replacement of all our bulbs, but at half that price, it begins to make more sense. So, I’m going to keep an eye out for future deals in the daily email, and see if the bulbs will actually make a noticeable dent in our electric bills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I subscribe to a small number of retail email lists that notify me of “special deals” on items that are of general interest to me…primarily electronics and some sporting goods. I rarely end up ordering anything via those e-flyers, but the one exception is Best Buy’s “Deal of the Day” email. I’ve gotten some really… Continue reading Ode to a Bulb<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10505,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions\/10505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}