My porch light just burned out. It's a single-bulb fixture and I had a 100W incandescent in it. I had been hoping to replace the 100W incandescent with a 1600+ lumen LED. But, wow, these things are expensive. The Philips "100W equivalent" for example is more than $50 at Home Depot or Amazon. Even at my high electric rate (for the US) of ~$0.20/kWh, that's something like 3000 hours of use to break even, which would be perhaps 3 years of use for this fixture.
Prices for the 60W and lower LED equivalents have declined quite a bit over the last couple of years, especially with Cree's recent entry to the market. But the prices for the higher-lumen bulbs seem to have stayed pretty much constant. Any insights on when the price declines seen for the lower-lumen bulbs might come to the higher-lumen models?
Prices for the 60W and lower LED equivalents have declined quite a bit over the last couple of years, especially with Cree's recent entry to the market. But the prices for the higher-lumen bulbs seem to have stayed pretty much constant. Any insights on when the price declines seen for the lower-lumen bulbs might come to the higher-lumen models?