LED Lighting photos

Yesterday, my sister complained there weren’t any pictures.  Well, here they are:

First, the light fixture the LED’s were replaced into in the bathroom.  The one on the right is the LED, as is the one you can’t see on the left.  I had to leave one halogen, so left it in the middle pointing to the mirror.  This fixture used to be 60W, it’s now 26, and the light appears to be the same warm color from both the LEDs and the halogen.  Output is 285 Lumens, but they are not dimmable.

The photo on the right is of the lamp directly above the mirror.

This is a 240V 50W halogen equivalent led drawing 6W with a GU10 fitting.  Again, the light is a very warm color.  You can see in the reflection on the tiles, the 3 individual LEDs.

This was done before, and isn’t counted in the costs below.

 

Finally, the rebuilt desk lamp that had failed.  The old plastic head is on the desk for comparison, with its 20W capsule halogen, compared to the new 3W LED.

You can see that the clamps cause the arms to splay out slightly, but it doesn’t appear to be putting any excessive strain on the fitting.

The lamp is quite a bit larger than the one that was originally in this fitting, but I don’t think it looks too bad from the angle I see it from most of the time.

The total cost of this project was £17.94, and given I replaced a desk lamp that was broken, I think was very good value.  And £10 of the total was an Amazon gift voucher for using their credit card!

Payback time on the project on energy costs alone looks like this:

Old wattage: 60+20 = 80 W
New wattage: 3 + 20 + 3 + 3 = 29 W
Difference = 51 W

Cost savings per hour at 51W = £0.0055

so £17.94 / £0.0055 per hour = 3261 hours

At two hours a day that’s 5 years, and a CO2 saving of 1400 kg to boot.  Lifetime of the lamps is forecast to be 50000 hours, so I should never have to replace them.  We’ll see how they cope in the moist environment of the shower room.