geepondy
Flashlight Enthusiast
It got the best of me so I went and bought the darn thing. This is a description, straight from the CCrane web page.
"Many of our customers tell us they use our LED flashlights to read at night. We love the soft, bluish, healthy feeling, glare-free light of the white LEDs. We now have a light bulb with 20-LEDs that will fit in a regular 120 Volt lamp. It is best suited for a light fixture where light can be directed like a reading lamp.
All 20 LEDs only draw 4 watts of power! This may be the first heirloom electric light bulb simply because it will last so long it will probably be passed down from generation to generation. Waterproof with a standard bulb base. Size: 2-1/2" W x 3" L."
The price was $59.95, supposedly a ten dollar discount according to the web page. The lamp arrived in a plastic bag with a sheet of paper that says the manufacturer is Dana Lighting, a division of Catalina Lighting Inc. and they give an address in Eaton, Mass.
The construction of the bulb is very solid. The head is perhaps a shade bigger in diameter then a regular lightbulb. The 20 LEDs appear to be randomly scattered and solidly epoxyed in place. It does indeed look waterproof. So I put the bulb in one of those swing arm desk lamps and fired it up. As you all know how LEDs operate, you do want to put the bulb in a lamp where the head of the bulb is directly facing forward and not bouncing the light off of a reflector in which some of the lamps do.
I was not very impressed with the light output. Unfortunately I only have a 7 LED Trek light to compare it to as far as multi-LED lights go. While the total light output of the bulb is considerably brighter then the Trek, looking straight at the LEDs the Trek definitely drives them quite a bit harder. I would think that without battery considerations to deal with, you would want to drive those LEDs just as hard as they can take it but I don't believe this is the case with this bulb.
So as a reading lamp? Yeah I guess so but you have to have the light pretty much right on top of the reading material and the area of coverage is not that great. If you were reading a fairly good size magazine, you would have to move the magazine around as you read to keep in in the center of the light. It might also work as a less intrusive alternative should you have a significant other lying next to you, but it's not nearly bright enough for me to replace my regular 60W incadescent lamp for every night reading purposes while lying in bed.
I'm not sure if I'm going to return it or not but I wouldn't buy it again. What I would like to do is put it in the outside light by the stoop of my door. I would leave it on 24 hours and it should throw enough light so that you wouldn't have to fumble with a keychain light to unlock the door in the dark. I say I would like to but I probably won't because I don't want anybody stealing my $60 light bulb.
"Many of our customers tell us they use our LED flashlights to read at night. We love the soft, bluish, healthy feeling, glare-free light of the white LEDs. We now have a light bulb with 20-LEDs that will fit in a regular 120 Volt lamp. It is best suited for a light fixture where light can be directed like a reading lamp.
All 20 LEDs only draw 4 watts of power! This may be the first heirloom electric light bulb simply because it will last so long it will probably be passed down from generation to generation. Waterproof with a standard bulb base. Size: 2-1/2" W x 3" L."
The price was $59.95, supposedly a ten dollar discount according to the web page. The lamp arrived in a plastic bag with a sheet of paper that says the manufacturer is Dana Lighting, a division of Catalina Lighting Inc. and they give an address in Eaton, Mass.
The construction of the bulb is very solid. The head is perhaps a shade bigger in diameter then a regular lightbulb. The 20 LEDs appear to be randomly scattered and solidly epoxyed in place. It does indeed look waterproof. So I put the bulb in one of those swing arm desk lamps and fired it up. As you all know how LEDs operate, you do want to put the bulb in a lamp where the head of the bulb is directly facing forward and not bouncing the light off of a reflector in which some of the lamps do.
I was not very impressed with the light output. Unfortunately I only have a 7 LED Trek light to compare it to as far as multi-LED lights go. While the total light output of the bulb is considerably brighter then the Trek, looking straight at the LEDs the Trek definitely drives them quite a bit harder. I would think that without battery considerations to deal with, you would want to drive those LEDs just as hard as they can take it but I don't believe this is the case with this bulb.
So as a reading lamp? Yeah I guess so but you have to have the light pretty much right on top of the reading material and the area of coverage is not that great. If you were reading a fairly good size magazine, you would have to move the magazine around as you read to keep in in the center of the light. It might also work as a less intrusive alternative should you have a significant other lying next to you, but it's not nearly bright enough for me to replace my regular 60W incadescent lamp for every night reading purposes while lying in bed.
I'm not sure if I'm going to return it or not but I wouldn't buy it again. What I would like to do is put it in the outside light by the stoop of my door. I would leave it on 24 hours and it should throw enough light so that you wouldn't have to fumble with a keychain light to unlock the door in the dark. I say I would like to but I probably won't because I don't want anybody stealing my $60 light bulb.
