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A teardown and review of this bulb at this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3e9l5c02g4
Sunsun appears to be a Chinese venture capital funded company... the bulb was less than $10.00 which is an important psychological barrier. This vendor "gets it", much like cree, on the criticality of price in establishing a mass market. Amazon has these bulbs on their website, I don't know if this vendor has any retail presence in stores.
I did not expect the build quality, however, to be very good as the classic way to cheap prices is to skimp on implementation and skip getting think like safety certifications done. In this case the vendor has not resorted to such techniques... the bulb looked pretty credible and a good match for the Cree bulb that I compared it to.
Sunsun bonds many dies onto a single substrate to achieve the lumen rating, it appears to be a cost effective approach.
Sunsun appears to be a Chinese venture capital funded company... the bulb was less than $10.00 which is an important psychological barrier. This vendor "gets it", much like cree, on the criticality of price in establishing a mass market. Amazon has these bulbs on their website, I don't know if this vendor has any retail presence in stores.
I did not expect the build quality, however, to be very good as the classic way to cheap prices is to skimp on implementation and skip getting think like safety certifications done. In this case the vendor has not resorted to such techniques... the bulb looked pretty credible and a good match for the Cree bulb that I compared it to.
Sunsun bonds many dies onto a single substrate to achieve the lumen rating, it appears to be a cost effective approach.
) screwing regular CFLs into their ceilings because they are too cheap to buy the PAR shaped lamps for which these fixtures were intended. Not only does this look terrible, but much of the light is wasted in the recessed fixture. Also, due to my skin sensitivity, I cannot go to these restaurants. (I have found that it is not nearly as bad if they at least bothered to use CFL PAR lamps, the extra layer of surrounding glass apparently helps block more of the UV radiation from the inner spiral tube). A 10 dollar LED is not really much more expensive than a CFL PAR lamp. You do not have to buy an LED PAR bulb, most of the regular LED bulbs are fairly directional as they are. Even with the opaque plastic semi-circle, I find that most of the light from the flat-mounted LED chips inside goes straight through, without really being diffused much in a different direction.
