slantsixdan
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Mostly I spend my time thinking about lights with wheels under them, but from time to time I think about ones that are intended to stay put.
There's a service called FromJapan whereby those of us outside of Japan can easily and cost-effectively buy stuff from the closed and opaque Japanese market. I've been using it for a few years for (big surprise) mostly car lighting equipment, though I've also recently been buying some other stuff, notably very-high-intensity LED bulbs. Japan's electric service (100v nominal) is close enough to North America's (117v nominal) for compatibility, and the plugs and lightbulb sockets are the same. I bought one of these 30w LED bulbs and put it in one of the ceiling sockets in my garage. Yep, it lives up to the claims. So when a customer recently had to have big round chrome yellow fog lamps (which are only made and sold in good quality any more in Japan) I also bought one of the 40w version, y'know, just to see what happens.
My laundry/utility room has two round porcelain sockets overhead, one over by the workbench and deepfreeze, and the other over by the washtub and washer/dryer. When my dad was growing up here, my grandma was doing laundry on what would've been an almost constant basis (grandpa liked gardening and fishing, and there were two kids, and no dryer) with that room barely lit by one 60w incandescent bulb (800 lumens) in each of those sockets.
From a couple years ago up til a few minutes ago, each of those sockets had a Y-splitter carrying two of these Feit 100w(equiv) 14.5w 3000K 1600-lumen bulbs, which are my go-to general-service bulb I put pretty much everywhere in my living spaces for lots of good quality light that's neither too yellow nor too blue and doesn't have any other weird colour casts, objectionable humming or buzzing, they're dimmable, etc. They're often on sale. Those four bulbs made the laundry room reasonably easy to work in, giving me 6400 lumens total (4× what grandma had).
A few minutes ago I removed that setup from over by the workbench and replaced it with the 40w bruiser from Japan. WOWWWWWWWWW!!! This makes the other side of the room with the twin Feits look dim. 25% more power (40w vs. 32w assuming claim = truth) and 25% more light (4000 lumens vs 3200 lumens assuming claim = truth). I would like to have a few more of these in the garage, basement, and other side of the laundry, though their 5000K "daylight" colour temp means I wouldn't want 'em in main living areas. Instant full intensity even at very low temperatures, very nicely made with a big finned heat sink, and the 4k lumens they put out is more than a 300w incandescent (which puts out 3600 lumens). All for the amount of power a standard fridge/oven bulb takes (40w). Seriously impressed! They're $25.37/ea bought one at a time, $22.91/ea bought two at a time, or $21.14/ea bought ten at a time.
I would like to play with one of these full-boogie LED floods. They come in 3000K warm-neutral or 5000K "daylight" white, and put out 4300 lumens (31% more than a 250w halogen flood).
BUT:
1. I don't often switch on the 250w floods around the outside of my house,
2. They're the big E39 ("Mogul") base, and my sockets are regular E26 ("Medium").
3. They're IP65 (means "highly waterproof"), but only if used in waterproof holders (which I don't have) like this—I'm not sure if these would be mountable on boxes available in North America.
4. They're $61.49 apiece—expensive for a "try it and see" item.
There's a service called FromJapan whereby those of us outside of Japan can easily and cost-effectively buy stuff from the closed and opaque Japanese market. I've been using it for a few years for (big surprise) mostly car lighting equipment, though I've also recently been buying some other stuff, notably very-high-intensity LED bulbs. Japan's electric service (100v nominal) is close enough to North America's (117v nominal) for compatibility, and the plugs and lightbulb sockets are the same. I bought one of these 30w LED bulbs and put it in one of the ceiling sockets in my garage. Yep, it lives up to the claims. So when a customer recently had to have big round chrome yellow fog lamps (which are only made and sold in good quality any more in Japan) I also bought one of the 40w version, y'know, just to see what happens.
My laundry/utility room has two round porcelain sockets overhead, one over by the workbench and deepfreeze, and the other over by the washtub and washer/dryer. When my dad was growing up here, my grandma was doing laundry on what would've been an almost constant basis (grandpa liked gardening and fishing, and there were two kids, and no dryer) with that room barely lit by one 60w incandescent bulb (800 lumens) in each of those sockets.
From a couple years ago up til a few minutes ago, each of those sockets had a Y-splitter carrying two of these Feit 100w(equiv) 14.5w 3000K 1600-lumen bulbs, which are my go-to general-service bulb I put pretty much everywhere in my living spaces for lots of good quality light that's neither too yellow nor too blue and doesn't have any other weird colour casts, objectionable humming or buzzing, they're dimmable, etc. They're often on sale. Those four bulbs made the laundry room reasonably easy to work in, giving me 6400 lumens total (4× what grandma had).
A few minutes ago I removed that setup from over by the workbench and replaced it with the 40w bruiser from Japan. WOWWWWWWWWW!!! This makes the other side of the room with the twin Feits look dim. 25% more power (40w vs. 32w assuming claim = truth) and 25% more light (4000 lumens vs 3200 lumens assuming claim = truth). I would like to have a few more of these in the garage, basement, and other side of the laundry, though their 5000K "daylight" colour temp means I wouldn't want 'em in main living areas. Instant full intensity even at very low temperatures, very nicely made with a big finned heat sink, and the 4k lumens they put out is more than a 300w incandescent (which puts out 3600 lumens). All for the amount of power a standard fridge/oven bulb takes (40w). Seriously impressed! They're $25.37/ea bought one at a time, $22.91/ea bought two at a time, or $21.14/ea bought ten at a time.
I would like to play with one of these full-boogie LED floods. They come in 3000K warm-neutral or 5000K "daylight" white, and put out 4300 lumens (31% more than a 250w halogen flood).
BUT:
1. I don't often switch on the 250w floods around the outside of my house,
2. They're the big E39 ("Mogul") base, and my sockets are regular E26 ("Medium").
3. They're IP65 (means "highly waterproof"), but only if used in waterproof holders (which I don't have) like this—I'm not sure if these would be mountable on boxes available in North America.
4. They're $61.49 apiece—expensive for a "try it and see" item.
