Energy Saving Light Bulbs

Mary_Hartnell

helena49 wrote: »

does anyone know where you can buy energy saving light bulbs which have a sensor in them, so you can put them in an outside light and they come on at dusk and go off when it is daylight again. I know there are such bulbs but do not know where to buy them.
Thanks
Helen

http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/cat.jsp?cId=101164&ts=68369

Stonedofmoo

ahll wrote: »

Just got back for Morrisons and they are selling energy saving lights bulbs Buy Ine Get One Free for 99p

Unfortunately following that tip I popped to Morrisons and the offer must have ended, plus their selection was feeble

I followed another tip on here however and tried Netto and they still have the Philips bulbs for 79p each. It says each customer can buy a maximum of 6 but I only needed 5 anyway

Wesker

MakingaDifference wrote: »

John Lewis are selling energy saving light bulbs for 49p in store or on line (although on line you have to pay delivery)

John Lewis are doing free delivery at the mo

Jim_Bob_Joe

I just bought new energy saving bulbs for my whole house from http://www.eco-lights.co.uk looking at the special offers i got some for 49p where i didnt mind the ugly looking tube ones, but then got some nice standard lookalike ones for the main rooms and all for £29 including delivery, n based on the £9 a year saving i should get that back 3 times withing the year for all the bulbs i have bought.

Simon_Wallace i notice they also have the GU10 you were looking for from £4.10 per bulb.

Jim_Bob_Joe

vippymini

i noticed morrisons have some for 39p now :-)

Simon_Wallace

Jim_Bob_Joe wrote: »

Simon_Wallace i notice they also have the GU10 you were looking for from £4.10 per bulb.

Thanks JBJ,

Unfortunately that's for the 10W equivalent, once you want a half decent one (40w) price goes up to £7 odd.

Cheers
Simon

roses

Does anyone know if John Lewis are still selling the Philips bulbs for 50p each?

Mary_Hartnell

I have a framed print in a dark hall, lit by a spotlight.

I was using an Edison Screw (60W M0 (?)) and as an experiment I bought a replacement LED from Lidl for 3.99 GBP.
It has 18 bright little LED's inside it and is rated at 0.9 watts. It does not give out as much light in total as the 60W tungsten one. The light is much brighter and "bluer".

For this application, it is curiously effective, and at night it makes the end of the hall look as though I have redecorated it (as well as making it easier to explain the way to the loo for visitors ).

My real objective is to find a replacement for four "Par 38 Floodlights" (If you are wondering what they are: they look like dimpled round headlights of a classic car), without having to replace the fitments for these 80W tungsten lamps. I think the bright blue coloured light would make the room look like the inside of a Homebase warehouse?

Has anyone else had experience of using LED's in a domestic setting?

Discodee

regarding using them in the hall/landing, I've been a fan of LELBs for years, but I had uplighters in my hall and landing.

When we redecorated 6 years ago, I bought some pretty shades from wilkos, which meant i could switch to low energy.
The same bulbs are in the hall and landing light fittings still! And before then, the hall and landing bulbs used to go every 4 months or so. I've nticed the lights often go off for a sec and back on in the hall and landing, dont know why. been doing it for years, so dont know if thats what made the bbulbs go, but the LE ones have been in 6 years now.

I didn't know they did screw in ones. Need 2 of those for 2 outside lantern lights. One is one that has a passive in it so not sure if I can use a low energy light bulb in that, but the back one is just on all night.All my bayonet caps are low energy ones, but really need screw ins. Do john lewis do free delivery now and then do they? Wish I'd known they did these when they had their £5 and free p&p lol

gromituk

You can get all the same bases in low energy versions as you can in ordinary light bulbs. Otherwise they wouldn't be able to use low energy lamps on the continent!

The most useful place to use low energy light bulbs is outside (especially if left on all night!), as you never benefit from the heat of the lamp. But if you're interested in saving energy perhaps you should think about whether you really need to leave any lights on all night.

You should be able to use one in a PIR (I think that's what you mean by "passive") with an energy saving lamp, provided it's not one of those which keeps the lamp on dimly all the time and makes it brighter if it detects movement. The disadvantages are that the lamp will not come on instantly at full brightness, and life is shortened by too many on-off cycles.

Ikea is a place to get very cheap low energy bulbs.