LED Bulb Success

robin1989

Hi

i've recently replaced all the bulbs in our house with LED bulbs from homewatt.co.uk and was wondering if anyone else had gone all the way with LED Bulbs yet. i started in december 2011 and worked my way round the house through till start of february gradually replacing all our bulbs of which there were many 41 bulbs in total. we recently had a letter or a call (not sure my mother deals with the electric bill) to say they are reducing our payments as our usage has dropped 60 (not sure if thats £60 or 60 units will find out). plus since we changed them the fuse box hasn't tripped once suggesting our lights were probably drawing to much.

me and my family have found that the light from them is much nicer and they use a lot lot less than incandesants and are about half the wattage of the energy saving CFL's sometimes more. The best thing me and my family have found is you turn them on and there light no waiting 40 mins for a energy saving bulb to get the there full brightness. well worth the investment we think as they should last over 10 years. it took us a while to take the plunge to buy them but we decided that it would be worth it in the end. also on the site we got them from the shopping cart even calculates your estimate savings with the bulbs you add to it.

was wondering if anyone else had had good results and savings with changing to led bulbs.

were now considering getting one of those vphase units as well see if that helps reduce costs any more. anyone experience with them.

deathtrap3000

How much did it cost to replace all your lights?

robin1989

about £660 total we spent.

heres there saving calculator for all the bulbs etc


Savings Calculator
Savings (annual) £306.34
1301 kwh
Savings (lifetime) 14272 kwh

£2 446.56
savings assumptions


also if anyone is wanting to buy any i have a coupon for family and friends valid till end of march - dont know what rules are on posting coupons though

GaryMo

£16 a lamp (£660 for 41)? That's expensive.
I bought 3W SMD's to replace my 50W halogens for around £6 each from eBay and am really impressed with the light output.

robin1989

Most of our lights are b22 and e14 narrow screw which were £19 for the dimable b22 and £16 for the e14. The gu10 we use in the kitchen are £7.50 and mr11s for fireplace were £6.50.

GaryMo

Ahh, I can see where the money went then. Not cheap but it's a good investment and nice to know you don't need to run around switching lights off everywhere!

GaryMo

I've no experience with them but have read a lot of negative posts on various forums stating that you won't save that much. It all depends on the type of appliances you have in circuit though.

Have you put your details in their savings calculator for an estimation on savings?

Saving Electricity Calculator from VPhase Voltage Optimisation

robin1989

yeah here is roughly what we ordered - from memory.

7 x GU10 4W 20SMD Warm White £52.50
2 x Candle LED 2W Warm White E14 £25.50
2 x MR11 LED 12V 9 SMD Warm White £13.30
8 x B22 7W LED A60 Daylight White Dimmable £159.60
23 x Candle LED 2w warm white narrow screw £344.77
42 Products £595.67

its still a massive saving because as well as the electric savings we were having to replace some bulbs especially the gu10's once a month probably 5 or 6 bulbs every month or two in total so will save us a packet on bulbs as led bulbs should last about 10 years i think.



just ran through there calculator and got these results
£147.77 Estimated annual savings

which is half the cost of a unit so a 2 year repayment is pretty good even if its half that i think it could be worthwhile. will have to look around a bit further though i think

IronGiant

I just got some awesomely bright 6W Gu_10 LEDs for £4 each, from Ebay, but I'll see how long they last before recommending them.

GaryMo

Give us a link in the meantime. I'd like something bright to replace the 4 x 50W halogens in my kitchen. The 3W LED's just couldn't quite cut it.