GU10 LEDs - Advice Please

Check the colour.. It's can be a very painful light..
I tried one in out bathroom..it was awefull..
And you can't dim most of them..

 

Whs
The screwfix one are not to bad but look a bit odd i like the ones that look like normal bulbs osram are good you also find the cheep ones dont give as much angle

This is a good price for dimmable and give a nice light
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/10-x-Osra...hom-PAR16-Advanced-Energy-Bulbs-/261779399319

 

I bought these from eBay 281372514447 lamp and fitting though. Non dimmable but worked out about £12 including fitting.
3000k colour temp. I'm very happy with the light output.

I'm pretty sure the guys must sell the dimnable lamps on there own

 

Philips are very good, but 4000K is quite a white light and may be too harsh. I would try one or 2 first and see if you like the output.

 

Haven't read it all but its often cheaper to buy light fittings with bulbs.

Ikea sell only led bulbs, go and have a fun Saturday with the rest of the Bristol.

 

Going to Ikea is sometimes a necessary evil, but should only be attempted at an "off peak" time - it's not the shop that I dislike; people in Ikea are the problem.

Although it is sometimes amusing to people watch in Ikea because for some reason a trance-like state falls on some people and they find themselves buying some unbelievable codswallop in there. They must get home and look in their bags and think "why the hell did I buy that?????"

 

@Baysearcher

so your gonna spend 200 bucks to save electricity ....

 

i went to the ikea in wednesbury ..once..

got to the checkout area, and it was 10 deep at the tills, made a sharp exit stage right,,

bizarrely some idiots were there buying a couple of candles...

 

I find that last orders on a weekday that's also a school night is the way to go. Weekends are a no-go because the place is packed out with people having a "family day out" (why the HELL would you take your family to Ikea???????) dragging their kids around the shop and buying them all ice-c r e a m and hot dogs at the exit so they can then bounce off the headlining of the car all the way home because they've filled them with sugar!

 

Meatballs, that's why. I'll say no more...

 

People use their kitchens a lot, so the payback will be faster, I'd reckon £60 a year saving over 35W halogen bulbs for 16 bulbs in our kitchen. 16 bulbs at £8 each is £128, less the cost of the halogens, so payback is around 2 years. After that, it's free money.

 

Got our bulbs - I LED'd-up the whole house - from LED Hut, I think. They did some good ones, or go for the named brands. Get warm white, or it'll look like a bus station.

 

The ones with spikes are called MR16 bulbs and are rated at 12V (so ideal for a camper in LED form) - problem is that indoors you often need to change the mains transformer to go from Halogen to LED.
GU10 (push and twist) are the same size but mains voltage rated, so are much easier to swap for LEDs.

Both MR16 and GU10 are "PAR16" lamps - Parabolic Aluminised Reflector, 16x eights of an inch diameter (ie 2in).

Get a named brand "Warm White" fitting. The cool (blue) white LEDs are hideous.

 

Can go for you if you want for a small fee!. 27 lamps at £20... will round it down to £500. do you want em dropping off?

 

Buy him some tea lights and a hot dog while you're down there...

 

Ice cream too?

 

that's just ridiculous.... ice - c r e a m

 

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