Philips 9W LED 806 Lumen Light Globe - $5
Philips 13W LED 1400 Lumen Light Globe - $7.50
Philips LED Mr16/Gu10 - $14.50
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½ Price Philips LED Globes | 806 Lumen $5.00 | 1400 Lumen $7.50 | Mr16/Gu10 4pk $14.50 | @ Woolworths
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when you only need 1 or 5 bux left for the month
Well I certainly didn't know this 3 pack was a thing! 😲
Yeah probably another Bunnings unique product so you can't price match.
Is there a three pack for that price for 1400 lumens?
It appears we have to buy a 2 pack, for a lot more :(
2 pack?! Unacceptable.
If you just need 60W equivalent bulbs then that makes sense. But Woolworths works out cheaper for 90W equivalent bulbs.
Goddamn not including scene switch.
this deal is electric
shocking
Watt?
That's b.. Lumen crazy!
It's amazing the difference between warm white and cool daylight. I put one of those 8w 806 lumen, warm white, in the kitchen yesterday and it's dingy. Same globe in the bathroom but cool daylight and you could perform surgery in there. No more warm whites for me.
Warm White for bedrooms.
The warm whites are great if you get the higher lumen rated ones. Warm white feels much softer but I guess it's a personal preference. I feel the cool white is too white.
How are these rated for 'covered' outdoor use? I grabbed a few in the last special as I just finished building. Due to the lack of outdoor lights I had; I have a warm white under my Alfresco which works well; so far hasn't blown up! Cool white through the rest of the house. Looks good!
Cool white bulb blew in the bathroom last night, temporarily replaced with a warm white that I had lying around.
Wife loves it. I'm considering divorce.pay alimony in bulbs..
Warm white is gentler on the eyes in my opinion.
Girls love it because it hides flaws in selfies.
My wife gets pretty cold in winter so she loves nice warm light too!
winning you save on energy bills
Cool white is great for keeping you awake. The shorter wavelength light suppresses melatonin production.
But for use right before bed, this is a liability.
So, for me, it’s cool white for the office and study, warm white for the lounge room and bedroom.
It’s the same principle as “night mode” on phones and computers.
The only application cool white globes have is to light up areas during daytime.
High wattage globes are a bad idea unless you're lighting up a large area or need the bright light for a specific reason.
Using a salt lamp is good because the wavelengths are more red and will keep you up less.
One of my pet peeves is being subjected to cool white stadium-like lighting late in the evening at someone's house.
I use cool white in kitchen and bathrooms where you really want to see what you are doing
Warm white in living areas as these are softer on your eyes , you don’t want it too bright watching tv
these are not smart bulbs
This is not ozSmartBargain
What’s a smart bulb? I just want light to be produced.
They also cost $5 not $40. I'll take the 'dumb' bulbs.
Can someone please explain in which situation you would use the 806 vs 1400 variant.
Cheers
In my experience 800 is just enough for a small bedroom, while 1400 is barely adequate for something the size of a single car garage. I use 1000 lumen bulbs in my bedrooms.
I use 400 lumen max lights around the house and in my bedroom have a 2W globe. Plenty bright for me but my house may have smaller rooms, lower cielings and different light fittings.
Would you recommend using 1400 for a lounge or kitchen?
Why do people bother with MR16 globes when it takes 3 of them to equal the light output of 1 screw-in type bulb? Never understood that.
so you are saying the screw in type uses 3 times more energy?
Do the maths. 13W screw-in bulb vs 3x5W MR10. 2.6x the energy, yet 3.4x the light output. But the main issue is cost of the bulbs - at these prices, 1x $7.50 bulb = more light output than 3x MR10s costing $10.87 in total!
Perhaps more to do with the dispersion of light and having the ability to place them around the room for consistent lighting (i.e. not have dimmer parts in the room)?
It's the fashion at the time (the house was built/renovated).
Just like many houses in the US where they don't have any ceiling light fittings, and rely on lamps through a roomEvery house I've been to in the US has ceiling down lights, just like here. Many modern houses over there have very high ceilings though - some are in excess of 4 metres (in the living area/kitchen, not the bedrooms). This would make it very difficult to change a bulb! In bedrooms in the USA, a common form of lighting is a ceiling fan with multiple lights attached to it pointing downwards/outwards (usually 3-4 is common). I can only speak from experience in the warmer states, though - no clue about the north.
@MrZ: Well, my experience is only in the north. Clearly my use of the word 'many' may be an exaggeration, but they certainly do exist.
Walk into a room, and there's a light switch on the wall beside the door, like normal. However that light switch controls what looks like a normal power point in some other location in the room - specifically wired for a lamp for room lighting.
Nothing on the ceiling at all.
But the MR16s only have a maximum beam angle of 60 degrees - this is pitiful. Screw-in bulbs are possibly close to double that. Ever notice how dark the walls are in a room with those kind of downlights? You only really get light directly under the bulb, and the glare is terrible.
Yeah I think it's because of that that they require multiple fixtures in the ceiling in order to cast consistent "cones" of light around the room. If you had multiple globes, I think there would be a lot of overlapping and more noticeable brighter/darker spots?
Or…People don't like having bulbs sticking out of the ceiling?
isn't it because MR16 is typically halogen and halogen is a lot less efficient than LED? I don't think the attachment type has anything to do with it.
I think some of these are the same price on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com.au/Philips-Light-Edison-Screw-13-0W/d…
It was previously even cheaper at $5.99 for the 13W.
all except for cool white bayonet :(
Yes they even had the 18w (2000 lumen) for same price. Never knew I needed more light!
Alright folks, I love warm white for EVERYTHING.
Except maybe laundry room, I would do cool white for that - otherwise its warm white all the way baby.Where do you guys stand on this?
Same, I do find cool white useful to use for lighting dim areas during the daytime though.
I've started going to low wattage incandescent where I can get away with it (SA has the most expensive electricity on Earth), the colour rendition is perfect unlike CFL and LED.
I use cool white for everything. Some of my mates complaint loudly when they visited citing a hospital like feeling. For me cool white made me more positive
MR16/GU10s are not cheap if you got many.
NSW residents got this subsidised offer for LED lights change over - $33 for whole home.
http://accreditedpower.com.au/We had this is Victoria. I got a whole house full for free - globes and down lights.
So, it seems that Woolworths removed the MR16s and GU10s from their website almost immediately after this deal came out. Very cheeky. Also, most Woolworths do not have the MR16s in warm white, only cold, which is odd because warm would surely be the most popular choice (this was even before the deal came out). I had to visit 3-4 supermarkets before I found one that had the warm MR16s.
I've always wondered when these deals come up why people don't just buy - https://www.bunnings.com.au/philips-8w-806lm-warm-white-a-sh… - I can't see a difference between those individual ones for $5? Hoping someone can shed some light on this (no pun intended).