Ligh shades for 100w bulbs

amstel2

Hello

I dont like energy saving bulbs (not bright enough & take ages to illuminate). Therefore i still use the old 100W type bulbs & have quite a stockpile of them.

However, i need to replace some of the light shades & all the places i have tried only do 60W max. Does anybody know where i can still get shades for 100W bulbs.

Thanks

Hasbeen

amstel2 wrote: »

Hello

I dont like energy saving bulbs (not bright enough & take ages to illuminate). Therefore i still use the old 100W type bulbs & have quite a stockpile of them.

However, i need to replace some of the light shades & all the places i have tried only do 60W max. Does anybody know where i can still get shades for 100W bulbs.

Thanks

Hi Just googled 100w light shade and there is a lot out there from Amazon to ebay.
Have you tried walking down aisle at b&q tried out any lighting shops?

Davesnave

Maybe direct 100w replacement isn't quite there yet, but these are instant, unlike the CFLs, and save money:

http://www.ledhut.co.uk/led-bulbs/b22-led-bulbs/11-6-watt-bayonet-standard-shape-bulb-75-watt-replacement.html

Jonesya

Couple of suggestions:


You could get halogen energy savers - still filament light bulbs, instant light, same light output but slightly lower wattage. Normally 72W for 100W of light output.


Buy a good quality LED bulb, instant light output, good light quality - forgot no-name brands, get something from a good quality brand, say like Philips, and a decent wattage, forgot 11W, 13W. You want 17W or more to replace 100W.


Something like this:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Philips-MASTER-Replacement-Dimmable-Bayonet/dp/B00K23808O


Or the previous version of the product being sold off cheap: by a seller:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Philips-17W-MASTER-LEDbulbs-2700k/dp/B007WJD1U8/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top?ie=UTF8

amstel2

Hasbeen wrote: »

Hi Just googled 100w light shade and there is a lot out there from Amazon to ebay.
Have you tried walking down aisle at b&q tried out any lighting shops?

I've tried B&Q, BHS, & a couple of lighting shops but none to be had. What puts me off buying shades on line is they could be dodgy fire traps from somewhere like China.

Thanks

bsod

£5 for an led bulb, £5 pa on electricity - £10 total, instant on, never fade.

or £100 on electricity to run each 100w bulb, and warm up the house a bit

the tech has moved on

lstar337

There are many energy saving bulbs that are as bright and brighter than a 100W incandescent bulb.

elstimpo

Just a word of warning on buying high wattage, high lumen output LED Lamps.

The higher the wattage / the more lumens produced, the more heat will be generated and therefore more heat needs to be dissipated for the product to be stable and ensure longevity.

An LED that is capable of replacing a 80 or 100w incandescent needs to be incredibly powerful for such a small lamp. The lumens that need to be generated to do the required job is considerable and therefore the heat dissipation / thermal management also needs to be considerable. In the vast majority of LED Lamps i see for sale, the thermal management is not considerably, it's non existent. This means that heat will build around the entire lamp, crucially around areas that contain the power supply and internal components and this heat will eventually (pretty quickly) cause these internal components to over heat and fail. It's the optocouplers and aluminum electrolytic capacitors that are the most vulnerable components in the power supply and the main reason why any LED Lamp would fail.

In the vast majority of cheap LED Lamps sold in the UK, sometimes by recognisable brands, do not contain internal components of sufficient quality to deliver the performance and lifespan claims if heat wasn't even a consideration. Add heat in and in my opinion the vast majority of 'cheap' LED Lamps are simply a premature failure waiting to happen. The higher the wattage and the more lumens produce, the greater the chance of total failure of the lamp.

An LED Lamp that will deliver the performance and lifespan claimed must have - Professional research and design, high quality raw materials and internal components, effective thermal management and thorough testing.

This simply cannot be done on the cheap. I bang on about those who buy LED products purely on cheap prices, you might as well stick with halogens, incandescents and halogens as the perception you have of cheap is a false economy. And i haven't even started on quality of light and colour rendering.

My company doesn't not sell a 100w replacement LED Lamp simply because it's not possible in such a small compact product and the product that could be developed would have significant costs due to thermal management needed.

It always amuses me when i see a company selling three different LED Lamps at different wattages, yet the 7w is the same size as the 13w. Are they suggesting the 7w Lamp they sell has a heat dissipation system good enough to be used with almost double the wattage? I don't think so.

Please be careful when buying LED Lamps. Do you own research and ask the company selling the products a lot of questions !

In fact, i've just had an idea for an article to write. "These are the questions you should be asking your LED Retailer about the products they sell'

No doubt there would be some comical / strange and incompetent answers.

bsod

meanwhile the public are quite happily using these products and saving money

firefox1956

amstel2 wrote: »

I've tried B&Q, BHS, & a couple of lighting shops but none to be had. What puts me off buying shades on line is they could be dodgy fire traps from somewhere like China.

Thanks

Go to a trade electrical wholesalers not a DIY shed......they all supply the general public these days.
They will have 100w bulds in all forms.
You might have to buy a pack of 10 though.
HTH

almillar

£5 for an led bulb,

Show me this magical LED light that is 100w equivalent. I'd say that's around 1,000lm