Energy Efficient Spotlights?

simonts

Is there such a thing? we have just taken posession of a house who's previous owner was clearly obsessed with spotlights...they are the type that twist and lock into the socket (GU10 i think) All in all i would say across 4 rooms we have about 30 of the little beggers waiting to draw lots of costly electric.

simonts

Though if my calculations are correct and assuming they are 20w lamps which i will check if i had them all running for 5 hours a day all year round assuming tv and cooking had used up the more expensive electric units for the year that my monthly cost for them would be around £7 of which changing the bulbs would work out far more expensive....food for thought though when they go pop

paullwill8

Not 100% but i think GU10 are 50w. Costing more than you thought?

blazebuster

You could try LED bulbs. Very low power consumation. Screwfix sell them, or do a search.

simonts

popped one out that had blown and is 50w....will start swapping them out as they go as thats about £17 on electric for those lights...worst case

Mr_Proctalgia

There was a thread earlier about these bulbs, you can get CF GU10's from IKEA for IIRC about a fiver (cos I have one) 9W.

HTH