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| We are redoing our kitchen and thinking of replacing our recessed lights with LED. We got tired of replacing the bulbs (constantly) in our old recessed fixtures and now use CFL bulbs that are slow to warm up and don't give adequate light.
My KD said LED is also takes a while to attain full brightness. I've never heard this before - is it true? She says there must be something wrong with our wiring to explain why the regular bulbs burn out so fast. |
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| LEDs have full intensity instantaneously. Bulbs burn out for various reasons |
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| Your KD is misinformed. LED's do not need to warm up. |
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- Posted by pauldavisseattle (My Page) on Sun, May 23, 10 at 15:35
| Sherwhy is absolutely correct. LEDs light instantly. |
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| We also had problem with lights burning out after very short time, attributable to a 'bad neutral connection'. An electrician had us send the following in a letter to our electric company. After talking with our neighbors, who had similar complaints, the electric company dug up the street and apparently fixed the 'bad neutral connection'. No more problems! Letter to electric company: For some time, we have noticed that: -- we briefly lose power several times per month We had an electrician check our panel, meter box, and internal grounds, and everything was fine. He told us the problem is likely the neutral connection, and referred us to YOU, our electric company. |
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- Posted by texaskitchentoo (My Page) on Mon, May 31, 10 at 1:25
| The voltage at our house is slightly over 120v. Sometimes it is 125v. Utility companies do this to push more power into growing areas. Our bulbs seem to go out before they should. I recently installed dimmers. Cranking the light back just slightly should help the bulbs last longer. The dimmer I installed (Lutron Maestro) also ramps up and down the voltage so they don't instantly hit the bulbs with full volatage. We'll see if this helps. |
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