ASDA 100 watt daylight bulbs

Neil49

I bought a 60w equivalent from Wilko yesterday for £2 and they did packs of 3 for £5. Lumen equivalent was around 850. They also did triple packs of 100w equivalent for around the same price but I don't have any idea of the lumen output.

They did both standard bayonet and screw fittings. 

Their shops are open at the moment so if you have one nearby you can just buy one to try it out. 

forgotmyname

grumpycrab said:

Speaking as an oldie (so possibly not very relevant) I look for 2 things in a light bulb - equivalent wattage, which I guess is not that sensible from what is being said here, and colour temperature.   Perhaps its just my eyes but daylight bulbs are very blue and cold - but guess depends on use.

Yeah the 6500K bulbs mentioned above maybe OK for some but they often are very blue. I prefer the 5000k, although they may

actually be less than that in reality.  A quality accurate 5000k maybe too much where a cheaper brand may actually be closer

to 3500/4000k.

sweetgirl2015

RumRat said:

sweetgirl2015 said:

RumRat said:

Concentrate the ones you bought maybe upstairs and start again with a more reliable brand.
Those appear to be an old style that's probably ended it's production run.

No they were not out long, I was attracted to them as they omit brilliant daylight resemblance and are cheap to run.  I got one in the bathroom and leave it on all night just in case our daughter wakes up in the night. 

Just because Asda had them for a short while doesn't mean they were new. When I say old style, you don't get many with the full length of glass anymore.....Asda probably had them at a bargain end of line from the manufacturer, packaged them as Asda and now can't get more stock.

These have ASDA printed on the actual bulb, actually ADSA CE not sure what the CE stands for. And yes that was the other main reason I liked them, they were the full length of glass ones.
I have since bought the 100 watt Tesco version but they have white plastic nearly half way down the bulb, not sure what the purpous of that is. Plus I dont think the 100 watt Tesco ones are so bright.
To be honest paying 6 quid for bulb wasent a problem. I just got dismayed I didnt get round to doing the whole house with them so its a bit more uniform. 

sweetgirl2015

Neil49 said:

I bought a 60w equivalent from Wilko yesterday for £2 and they did packs of 3 for £5. Lumen equivalent was around 850. They also did triple packs of 100w equivalent for around the same price but I don't have any idea of the lumen output.

They did both standard bayonet and screw fittings. 

Their shops are open at the moment so if you have one nearby you can just buy one to try it out. 

Yeah I might try them thanks, the problem I have now is because I got 6 ASDA daylight type ones, the Tesco ones in contrast are yellowish and paired together looks awful and the ASDA ones are too much like what I am after. 

Norman_Castle

These? They state warm white 2700k. Look for daylight or cool white bulbs, even lower wattage ones.

Chino

Norman_Castle said:

even lower wattage ones.

Why? Who wants dim light bulbs?

Norman_Castle

Chino said:

Norman_Castle said:

even lower wattage ones.

Why? Who wants dim light bulbs?

Bright people.

vacheron

Chino said:

Norman_Castle said:

even lower wattage ones.

Why? Who wants dim light bulbs?

Most people including myself want lower wattage providing the lumen output is the same, because wattage no longer of any relevance to how bright the bulb is (actually it wasn't any kind of guarantee in the past either).

As others have stated people need to be looking at the lumens (stated on the packaging) to compare relative brightness.
They should then use the colour temperature (In Kelvin equivalent) to select the shade. Lower is yellower and higher is bluer with about 2000-6500 being the usual extremes.

In the links posted above, Tesco is doing it the right way round with the lumens prominent and wattage less so, Asda is the reverse, which is not the best way as can be seen by the way the OP (and probably many other customers) are using this as the deciding factor for replacement new technology bulbs.

The wattage is simply for people to use to compare it to the approximate equivalent amount of lumens you used to get from a traditional "standard" domestic tungsten filament lamp.

This is much the same as the way milk companies used to write big "2's" and "4's" on the cartons (but removed the word "pints") to prevent confusion when the official volume measurements transferred to liters a few years back, and the "official" volume of 2.272 litres was stated elsewhere in much smaller lettering.

John_Gray

Norman_Castle said:

These? They state warm white 2700k. Look for daylight or cool white bulbs, even lower wattage ones.

Gasp!  Surely not the ones I linked to in my previous post? 

Yes!

thevilla

I've had mixed results from supermarket bulbs.  Early failures.  Never had issues from ledhut and I have bulbs from their website which are over 6 years old and working fine.
I have no connection to ledhut.