Great Low Energy Light Bulb Hunt

AbyssDiver

;DG reat money saver - Low Energy Light Bulb's ;D

Looking for ~20w (100w equivalent) bulb's

Lasts 6 times longer
Uses 80% less electricity

So far i have found:

B&Q - £8.98
http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/product/product.jsp?CATID=69199&entryFlag=false&PRODID=94477

Wilko - £1.99
http://www.wilkouk.com/products/product.asp?sku=157346

Asda - £1.97
Asda

EDITED to shorten link

competitionscafe

Not tried these particular bulbs, but Lightbulbs direct do them for 2 quid.  I have used their site before a couple of times without problems, although you have to spend quite a lot (£40) for free delivery, otherwise delivery charges need to be taken into account.

http://www.lightbulbs-direct.com/

I read somewhere that not all low energy bulbs are the same - some give a better 'quality' of light, so cheapest may not be best.  Not something I know a lot about though so perhaps others will enlighten me.  ;D (sorry!)

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P.S - see it's your first post and you registered today - so welcome to moneysavingexpert, hope you save lots of money.  :)

P.P.S - you might want to shorten that uber long link (try http://!!!!!!.com )
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George_Bray

This topic is a sore point for me. I trusted the marketing hype on 6x life, 12000 hours or whatever, and bought some Osram low energy bulbs through Powergen about two years ago at what I thought was a special offer price, but still hugely more expensive than ordinary light bulbs. They have started failing already (two failed so far out of six). I would not have expected ordinary light bulbs to fail that quickly. Usage has been moderate in a standard domestic environment - no knocks or anything.

My total cost of operation will now be far higher as a result of buying these rip-off products.

Regards
George

Ted_Hutchinson

Our Local Safeway/morrisions has had buy TWO for £4 on Philips Softone 20w normal type rather than stick type low energy bulbs.

They have the other sizes as well but the price is the same.

Scooby_Saver_2

Hi,

Ikea do a good range of bulbs and espacially hard to find "golf ball bulbs" it was 5-15 for 2.

Oh and if you want a laugh i installed these in our main front room 3 weeks ago and then our cable telly start playing up.( changing to box office every 20 mins )

So NTL out 3 times and 2 box changes and it turns the lights give off the same as the catv remote

Hope this helps

HonestJohn

Bought some in Poundland about a month ago for - you guessed it - £1

steady__eddie

I "inherited" a ceiling fan/light in the Summer, great for a breeze and to keep the fies at bay. Now with the advent of cooler weather and longer nights, I need the illumination but the maximum recommended 40 watt bulb is alas too dim for my diminishing eyesight so I thought I'd use a low energy buld. Bad career move, it's not a bayonet but a screw in. Two weeks searching revealed an outlet which sold them, downside.... the candle type is too long ! shade will not fit on. Does anybody know if and where physically smaller screw in ones are available ?

XYZed

There was a thread here, which I can't find now, that linked to a provider, (powergen I think, but I'm not sure), who you could get 4 low energy light bulbs from for free, as long as you are claiming from a range of benefits.

We claim working tax credits, which qualified us, and we got 4 bulbs free just by writing to them and saying which benefit we had. No proofs were required from us, but I don't know if they would check with the tax credits people?

Anyway, I think they have to qualify as the cheapest...

punamulta

IKEA are doing 3 11w bulbs for just over £2,

Mazio_2

Tesco do the Philips energy saver bulb says on box lasts for 6 years (based on 3 hours per day burning time) 18watt usage 100watt output for £1.97 they do other wattage as well.

Mazio_2

Thankyou for correcting the elongated posts.  I am a "virgin" user of these low energy bulbs and as such, am finding the initial low light when first switching on, a bit strange. I'm tempted to but a couple of the bulbs from the 99p shop, just to see how they perform and will keep an eye on this thread .

The Philips ones are very good on start up they give off nearly full strength. I think most modern ones are now better.