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18/11/2013 at 2:33pm
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my 2p....
LED anre improving, fast, and prices coming down, less fast, but still quit quickley.
LED GU10s, expect to pay around £8 for something reputable, more if you want the COB LED types (around £10)
dimmables slightly more.
GU10s will give you the most energy saving, especially in downlights, swapping 250W for 25W soon saves money back.
LED candles around £6, golfballs about the same, these can be ok, but may be larger than original type ones,
GLS or "bulb" shaped are currently around the £9-15 mark, and tbh, im not overly impressed, you do get a large dark area behind it where the driver is housed, so not the allround light you get from traditional GLS lamps
All LEDs are avaliable in warm (30-3500K) or cool/daylight (6500K) and avaliable in dimmable/not dimmable, you may need to change the dimmer. (we sue Varilite VPro)
CFLs are still good, stick type cheaper than spirals, and do come on brighter faster than spirals,
these range fron £2 - £5 (7-25W) as standard most come as "white" 4000K
avaliable in dimmable, but a large price premium on these.
lowest efficiency are the halogen replacements, a halogen capsule in a traditional shaped outer envelope, these range from £1.00-£1.30 as a rule of thumb for these 28W=40 42=60 70=100 colour of 30-3500K easily dimmable.
FYI, for those who really want the "old style" lamps. these are still out there as rough service lamps, but are also pushing £1.20 each now.
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19/11/2013 at 5:02pm
Location: Essex coast living on a boat!
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Don't get me started on this one, all very well if you have the option and money to burn, but we have to use the old style 40w opal golfball bulbs for our business, so we went around all our suppliers buying in bulk before it became more difficult to get hold of them, we now have several hundred in stock so should last us for quite some time, at least until the alternatives become cheaper and less hideous.
You can still get them for now, and we plan to buy some more in the New Year, at present they can be had for around 60p each if you bulk buy.
We also stocked up on 40w candle bulbs for our home, as we have old fashioned lights downstairs that would look ridiculous with these monstrosities in them.
They are only really fit for concealed lamps with shades, we have a couple of the low energy ones for a table lamp and standard lamp and the hall lights upstairs because they don't show.
Ridiculous, in my view, there are far more important things, and this strikes me as profiteering thinly disguised as green energy measures tbh.
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20/11/2013 at 1:07pm
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Ollie, in answer to your query, we own a business that supplies backstage equioment for film, tv and fashion shows and shoots, among many other things, we supply the old fashioned style Hollywood lighted make up mirrors with bulbs around them, which we also design and manufacture ourselves.
Obviously, the new energy saving bulbs are not going to look great with these, so it is pretty imperative that we can still get hold of the old style golfball bulbs!
Hence my bulb hoarding habits 
Jane.
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