½ Price Philips LED Globes $6.45 & $6.50 (10.5 Watt 1055 Lumens) @ Bunnings
Philips 10.5W LED Globe ES Warm White $6.45
Philips 10.5W LED Globe ES Cool Daylight $6.50
Please note that the product photo for the Warm White globe incorrectly shows a BC (Bayonet Cap) globe. If you screenshot the picture, Bunnings will likely honour the price if indeed you're after BC globes. Enjoy :)
Tightarse. What a user name :D
Tightlightarse
Lightarse sounds pretty good
Be mindful that Bunnings are Price Beating Woolworths Sale Pricewhich ends today AFAIK.
tldr; Buy Today
Bunnings will likely honour the price if indeed you're after BC globes.
If they say no, I'm going to show them tightarse.
Or you could pull each one out of the box for a look and put in back in the ….oops 🙀
Yep, give 'em a brown-eye.
Good deal taken woolies were only selling warm ones and hard to find stocks. I was after day light ones but Philips dont make them. Beacon lighting LED does, but are expensive.
Philips dont make them
daylight bulbs?
LED Globes.
I am talking about this: 4000K Cool White
Philips ones are: 6500k for day light or cool white at 5000k.
Ninja Edit.
Yeah I understand
If only they were dimmable. I guess I'll try my luck @ Aldi tomorrow.
I just got one from aldi 'brilliant' brand 12w 1000 lumen 4200k cool white for $5.
Really nice lights these, very bright and I love the colour. Have 3 in my bedroom which is always fun when I forget and turn them on in the middle of the night.
Philips make the best LEDs for the money
These are good and I prefer warm white
I agree - I hate cool white. Looks like a hospital.
Phillips warm white is great - it's more a white than a warm - ie not yellowly.
I'm a fan of the less yellowey "cool" white. Its subjective. I prefer the white of LED light to the yellow of old incandescent.
Do these have a shelf life? I.e. can I buy 10 and expect them to work in 5-10 years?
You could, but why?
Yeah I wouldn't bother. Look at how quickly LED technology is changing - who knows what the LED lighting in 5 years time will be.
If they are good quality, they may last 10 years …. in use.
Technically LED should, should I repeat, last 30,000-50,000 hrs. Maybe more.
Philips LEDs are rated to 15k hours. I had one of the original 'affordable' OSRAM LEDs from Bunnings in early 2011. It stated 25k life, and when the bulb started to flicker it was around 25k hours (12 hours per day, every day).
We've got a Sylvania Street light at our warehouse, it had a metal halide bulb in it which was chewing the juice as it is on a daylight sensor, after burning through various "commercial" grade LED drop in bulbs, I bought a bulb adapter (to bring the streetlight down to E27) and a couple of these bulbs - after 2+ years, I'm still on the original Philips bulb - so outdoors in the sun and on all night every night - still going after 2+ years (say 9,000 hours in a harsh environment)
Pointless, LED technology gets better and cheaper every year so only buy what you need now.
With fancy smartbulbs which support phone/internet control, motion detection, dimming, multi colour getting cheaper all the time you will probably swap to them in a few years anyway.
LED chips are constantly becoming more efficient and cheaper. A good LED now has light output of around 100 lumen per watt. 8 years ago the first Philips ultra expensive LEDs were just 60. In 10 year's time I expect to see 150lm/w.
I've been messing around with LED lighting for about 10 years now and the technological advancement has been astounding. It never used to be possible to get a white LED (it had a blueish tinge), now they are commonplace. The output/power ratio has been reducing for years - the same light output from 7W 5 years ago is now 5W and less
The LED area lighting that we are installing on mine sites is easily the equal of traditional technologies, with less maintenance and running costs
The only negatives I can think of are you don't get the genuine 'softness' of incandescent, dimming accuracy and cost
Is there a dimmable model?
"Dimmable" is no guarantee that they will actually dim, or dim very well.
You need to choose carefully with dimmable.
My experience of dimming LEDs is that you need a very good dimmer (Clipsal for instance) and that the dimming function does not work as well as it did for incandescent
Newer (albeit more expensive), smart LEDs offer a better solution
Dimmible LEDs are more expensive. E.g., the Philips dimmable ones at $12 at Bunnings vs around $8 for non-dimmable.
They didn't work with my old dimmer switches - too old. Had to get new ones which cost me $60 each :/
As LED's, shouldnt they be a much lower wattage?
Why?
And these are 1000 lumens, you won't get lower wattage LEDs for that brightness.
If you want lower wattage, you have to sacrifice lumens.
No. The lower wattage ones (generally) are less bright. These are very bright compared to most other bulbs at 1055 lumens. Just like in the old style globes you can buy 40w, 60w, 100w, etc you can do the same for LED. Although higher wattage does not always mean a brighter light when comparing different brand globes - better to look at lumens.
Thanks
Lower than what, CFL?
100lumen/Watt is rough guide for LED in current form.
I 'm sure I got a pack of three similarly specced bulbs from Costco the other day for $10 - unless I'm mistaken and they were 3 for $20. Not Philips brand though.
"Specs" aren't everything, quality matters with these things.
Cheap ones don't dissipate heat well, can have a delay when turned on, and ratings that aren't all that accurate.
I use the ones from Costco for all my lighting, 3 for $13 is a good deal.
In terms of quality, I can always refund it anytime at Costco. No big deal.
https://www.fairdinks.com.au/luminus-b22-bayonet-base-a70-le…
Same - I have 4 of the 1520lm (14Watt) leds in my room and the 4000K colour temperature gives a slight warmth to the light without being too yellow and definitely not that clinical cold too bluish light earlier generation leds had.
My one qualm about these higher wattages is the lower expected lifespan at around 15K hours, vs around 25K hours for the 8/9 Watt variants..
Guess LED light bulbs are like stars - the brighter they burn, the shorter they last.
in terms of newer led technologies, the next generation of leds might be the COB/Led Filament type as taken apart by Big Clive (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nme8T2yLhL0)
@digitalaxon: Yeah those are the ones I have also. They are definitely better than the CFL ones that I have had in the past - which only seem to last about 18 months in normal use!
There is a difference in component quality, LED chip efficiency, and the quality of light. Philips LEDs have a CRI of 80. That's fine for most purposes. Some more expensive LEDs like IKEA's offerings are 90+, giving a better quality light.
The Ikea ones - at least in Australia - appear to be less efficient. 1000 lumens requires 11.5W
Just read the edit in the OP and checked the website, it doesn't specify if its bayonet or screw. Could someone please confirm which one it is?
Thanks
It does specify it, ES is Edison Screw.
I don't know why 4000k isn't more common.
I find 3000k quite warm / yellow - good if you want that.
But the 5000k or 6500k cool models just seem blue to me…
Do these turn on instantly? I got some of the energy savers ones a while back and they take a good 2 seconds to turn on which is very annoying.
They wouldn't be Led lights, they would be flouro type bulbs.
Led is instant.
not all though - I have some that are a bit slow. not 2 seconds but noticeable. in my experience these phillips ones and the costco ones are pretty close to instant.
LED'S don't have any delay. Even if it's got a capacitor it will still be instant.
LED'S don't have any delay.
Some do though, even though it may work instantly in one house it may not in another.
The delay isn't much, a split second, but it can be noticeable and annoying.
The Luce Belle (bunnings) ones at my place all have a slight delay.
@Scab: The LED itself has no delay that would be the electronics they use. It maybe be a cheaper set up using capacitors and resistors. Shouldn't matter what house its in unless its made like that. You always have voltage to the switch once you flick the switch the light get power. You can probably get delayed switches but that is not standard and has nothing to do with the LED itself.
The LED itself has no delay that would be the electronics they use.
We were talking about LED bulbs here, not just the LED itself.
@Scab: None i have used have any delay what so ever. These Phillips bulb even thought they are not great turn on instantly. LEDs have no warm up time like what the person was asking about CFLs! The electronics would maybe delay the circuit by a few hundreds of a second max hardly enough to notice it if you are moving. Its called soft starting to limit the inrush current its not needed.
He asked "Do these turn on instantly?" and the correct answer is yes they are supposed to but it doesn't always turn out that way.
Do a Google search and you'll see it's a common problem and not isolated to any one brand.
@Brouw3r: - yes, I've just purchased and fitted one this afternoon - instant on.
Yes (from previous dicksmith bulbs)
I find these lights to be a bit on the murky side. I have a couple of them at home and I replaced all the lights in another house and while they light things up, sometimes colours seem a bit off and not vibrant.
You might want to buy high CRI90+ globes. The higher the Colour rendering index rating is the better it is. Higher number will let you distinguish colours better.
I know what you mean. It does feel inviting for some reason.
Great bulbs overall, especially at this price. I've even used them "off label" opening then and to power the heads externally. Well made internals.
The price is for both the edison screw and the bayonette
No its not, I confirmed this in store today. Only the screw bulbs are on special.
Did they say when the sale is until?
Just grabbed 1. The guy said April 10th.
Maybe not 100% the price
What say you now?
Uh didn't realise the wattage was different. Probably the 10 watt blues were too much and I thought this was the deal
Why did you buy 6w ones? What are you going to use the LED globes for? 6w is no good for room light, only bedside lamp.
Low brightness is good for a lot of areas like hallway, stairwell, the loungeroom if you only read on electronic screens.
Confirmed its screw in only.
Got them to price match for edison though because of the site photo.
How did you manage that. I tried but they refused to price match. I even showed them the picture on bunnings website
Was a little hard but was perssistant that they needed to price match due to the incorrect picture used on the website.
What no JV on LED light deal. Guess he finally got all his ES and BC globes changed to LED for free thru the Vic Govt program.
Hope the deal's still on tomorrow!
Great timing, just about to change the globes. Thanks tightarse.
just went to my nearest Bunnings - Rydalmere.
what happened was, the picture used on the website was incorrect, it's suppose to show the ES type only and not the bayonet type.
The I/N number is correct (one for warm white and the other for cool daylight) when they looked it up in their inventory.
Its weird how Edison Screw is becoming the most common bulb sold. Yet bayonet is what every house ceiling fitting uses.
I though newer properties had ES. Wasnt edison screws more expensive compared to bayonets 10 years ago? From a design point it makes more sense
My place was built in the 80s and uses ES in most lights.
I actually thing ES is a better socket, I've had BC ones seize or damage the socket or not sit right.
These are too white for me. My preference for warm white must be <2700k - these are 3000k. Might take them back!
Showing as full price now
Bunnings in Rockdale still has some left in warm white (listed as 6.45)
You light up my life, Tightarse.