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LED Lightbulbs - super efficient light bulbs

  • Price markdown for GES 1year warranty models in the coming weeks
  • Napundi yung 2-year warranty 7watter GES LED (WECL-7WL) bulb ko the other day. Mag 1 year pa lang sa Feb 5. Mabuti talagang nai-photocopy ko yung mga receipt ng SM. Sobrang labo na ng sales invoice, hindi na mabasa ang nilalaman. Papa-warranty ko mamaya...
  • ayus yan magsusunuran din iba nyan...
  • bakit mabilis mapundi? yung mga 5-year warranty ko going strong after 3-years continuous use may 8-12 hours daily na bukas
  • bakit mabilis mapundi?
    Posible na dahil sa kitchen nakalagay ang bumbilya, yung kusina nasa backyard may bubong naman pero screendoor lang kaya minsan mahamog. also, nang tinanggal ko ang bulb, madaming gamu-gamo nakapasok.

    BTW, hindi ko napapalitan yung bulb kanina. ang sabi ng mga salesman hindi sila sure kung pwede papalitan outright kasi ang mga available na 7w 2yr bulbs ay ibang modelo na, yung walang vent. te-text na lang daw ako kung kelan pwede na papalitan...
  • bakit mabilis mapundi? yung mga 5-year warranty ko going strong after 3-years continuous use may 8-12 hours daily na bukas


    lower warranty GES bulbs have inferior components particularly in the power supply but also the LED emitters themselves (look at the lumen:watt ratio)
  • Just got a set of GE LED bulbs a few weeks back. So a pack of 6 pcs of 7-watt LED bulbs, with a 3-yeqr warranty.

    Pack is PHP 795 with 10% discount, so PHP 715 / 6 LED = ~ PHP 119.50 per LED.

    I think pwede na for a 7 watter. Hopefully, tumagal ang GE or kung nasira man, madali lang claim replacement.
  • BTW, hindi ko napapalitan yung bulb kanina. ang sabi ng mga salesman hindi sila sure kung pwede papalitan outright kasi ang mga available na 7w 2yr bulbs ay ibang modelo na, yung walang vent. te-text na lang daw ako kung kelan pwede na papalitan...


    pwed dapat palitan yan... as long as same model sya or replacement model ng luma. para sa mga phaseout at under warranty pa yung next available pwed ipalit...
  • Posible na dahil sa kitchen nakalagay ang bumbilya, yung kusina nasa backyard may bubong naman pero screendoor lang kaya minsan mahamog. also, nang tinanggal ko ang bulb, madaming gamu-gamo nakapasok.


    lower warranty GES bulbs have inferior components particularly in the power supply but also the LED emitters themselves (look at the lumen:watt ratio)


    Thanks sa information
    Kelangan ko check at linisin yung nasa garahe
    Marami nang laman light fixture non sa loob (insekto yata)
    Makukupad mga butiki sa bahay eh, nauunahan pa ng LED makapatay ng insekto.

    -- edited by dulber on Feb 05 2016, 03:41 PM
  • Finally napapalitan ko kanina yung 7w GES bulb ko...

    PERO kinukuha nung nag-assist sa akin sa SM Centerpoint hardware section ang resibo at kanila na daw yung resibo ko. hindi ako pumayag tapos tinanong ko kung bakit kukunin. "One-time replacement" lang daw ang warranty ng GES. Balewala na ang 2-yr warranty once napareplace mo na ng 1 beses ang bumbilya. Kung di daw ako payag, balikan ko na lang daw ulit pag andoon na yung GES rep.

    Nagpatawag ako ng manager or yung representative ng GES para ma-klaro, ang humarap sa akin yung dating salesman na nagtxt sa akin na pwede ko na balikan yung replacement bulb.

    Parehas ang sinasabi nya na one-time replacement at kinukuha din ang resibo. Ayaw ko pumayag pero gahol na ako sa oras kaya nag settle na ako sa bigay nya yung bagong bulb na nilagay nya sa lumang kahon, kinuha nya yung lumang bulb and yung bagong kahon. Kinuha din nya yung original receipt and naiwan sa akin ang photocopy.

    Hindi ko na alam ngayon kung mapapawarranty ko pa within the remaining 1 yr dahil wala na akong OR and iba na ang model ng bumbilya sa nakasulat sa kahon.
  • ano LED bulb OK?
  • ano LED bulb OK?

    depende sa needs mo

    for a light thats on for long periods of time go for best lumen per watt plus long warranty

    for a light thats only on for short bursts like sa toilet and you never take a shower at night then initial cost may be the most important consideration, with cheap china LED's or even cheap china CFL's being viable options
  • Finally napapalitan ko kanina yung 7w GES bulb ko...

    PERO kinukuha nung nag-assist sa akin sa SM Centerpoint hardware section ang resibo at kanila na daw yung resibo ko. hindi ako pumayag tapos tinanong ko kung bakit kukunin. "One-time replacement" lang daw ang warranty ng GES. Balewala na ang 2-yr warranty once napareplace mo na ng 1 beses ang bumbilya. Kung di daw ako payag, balikan ko na lang daw ulit pag andoon na yung GES rep.

    Nagpatawag ako ng manager or yung representative ng GES para ma-klaro, ang humarap sa akin yung dating salesman na nagtxt sa akin na pwede ko na balikan yung replacement bulb.

    Parehas ang sinasabi nya na one-time replacement at kinukuha din ang resibo. Ayaw ko pumayag pero gahol na ako sa oras kaya nag settle na ako sa bigay nya yung bagong bulb na nilagay nya sa lumang kahon, kinuha nya yung lumang bulb and yung bagong kahon. Kinuha din nya yung original receipt and naiwan sa akin ang photocopy.

    Hindi ko na alam ngayon kung mapapawarranty ko pa within the remaining 1 yr dahil wala na akong OR and iba na ang model ng bumbilya sa nakasulat sa kahon.


    Sa ACE ba to? Mahirap ba talaga magpawarranty ng GES? buti na lang wala pa napupundi sa mga ges bulb ko.
  • sa aking naman naka-2 pa-warranty ako ng GES
    isa sa ace
    at isa true value

    puro photocopy lang dala ko, walang daming tanong, palit unit... tapos
  • Ano kaya official stand ng GES sa warranty issue na yan. One of the main reason kaya ka nga bumili ng GES kahit mas mahal is because of the warranty. Ngayong may issue na ganito mukhang di na worth it.
  • Sa ACE ba to? Mahirap ba talaga magpawarranty ng GES? buti na lang wala pa napupundi sa mga ges bulb ko.
    Not sure. May Ace Hardware ata sa basement ng SM Centerpoint, but this is on the 2nd floor hardware section.

    Nakapagpa-warranty na ako ng GES sa ibang store pero wala namang aberya.

    Baka bagong policy ng GES dahil maraming nandadaya sa pagpapawarranty. Wala naman kasing serial no. sa resibo.
  • Baka bagong policy ng GES dahil maraming nandadaya sa pagpapawarranty. Wala naman kasing serial no. sa resibo.


    If this is true, this is sad. We can't keep the original receipt for 2 years, kung matago mo man sigurado burado na by that time. If photocopy/scanned/picture is not enough, para na rin silang walang warranty pag ganyan :(
  • saan yun may promo pack of 6 pcs of 7-watt LED bulbs, with a 3-yeqr for P 795 na may 10% less pa?
  • Ace Hardware
  • Share lang. Ikea OLEBY Sensor LED Lights. :)


  • Share lang. Ikea OLEBY Sensor LED Lights. :)

    since its ikea I assume not availble sa pinas. although cdrking and ebay have similar products.

    And I assume its battery powered?
  • Available sa Pinas yan. Reseller sa facebook. Nakalimutan ko lang name.
  • ^Yup, available locally.

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  • comparison between paraffin candles and LED

    Mike Richmond, Studied physics
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    Burning candles is more than ten times worse for carbon emission than using electric lights frugally.
    All the calculations below are approximate, but all good enough to derive the result:

    Electricity used in your home produces around 0.7kg of CO2 per kWh of usage. If you would be happy with lighting your home with a few candles, you would be happy with lighting your home with a single 1W LED bulb in use at any one time.
    Allowing for inefficiencies in the transformers etc., and assuming you have artificial lighting in use for four hours every day, you are going to consume around 2kWh of electricity, releasing 1.4kg of CO2 with electric lighting.
    Now, a 0.5kg candle is likely to burn for around 100 hours, so we need fourteen of them to last us through the year. That is 7kg of paraffin wax. You are going to struggle to read with this single candle, and your dinner parties are going to have a very intimate air to them.
    7kg of paraffin produces around 2.5 times as much CO2 by weight when it is burnt, thus releasing 18kg of CO2 with candle lighting.

    Written Dec 15 • View Upvotes

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    if it were beeswax candles maybe it would be carbon neutral. But are beeswax candles available in the phils? Super expensive maybe if ever
  • ^Much ado about nothing. At the moment barya barya lang yan kumpara sa footprint ng say for example automobiles and electric cars.
  • paktay nawala ko yun receipt ng ge 15w led bulb, ngayon ko lang nalaman na nagrereplace yun ace ng led bulb na 1 year inabot ay sira na... 5 months ko na nagagamit sana tumagal
  • 3-day sale sa Ace Hardware sa SM Sta. Mesa Feb. 19-21. 10% discount plus 10% discount sa first 2 hrs. Time to buy LED bulbs pang replace ng mga more than a year old CCFLs.
  • If you don’t want your home invaded this summer, you’ll want to learn the results of a summer-long experiment meant to test whether different light bulbs attract different amounts of bugs
    ...
    Incandescent bulbs had the highest capture rate, followed by CFL, halogen, LED with a cool color temperature, and a standard ‘bug’ light. At the bottom with the lowest capture rate were warm-colored LEDs. This was fitting, as Justice said that LEDs coming on the market were what inspired them to test the bug-attracting properties of different lights in the first place.

    The big shocker was the bug light. “The only thing we could hypothesize in advance is that the yellow ‘bug’ light would catch the fewest insects,” said Justice. “We were very surprised when not only was that not the case, but the yellow bulb attracted a lot of earwigs, which can be a household pest.”

    So, if you have a choice, choose a warm yellow-oran

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  • @AmalgamvsAloof
    2700-3000 kelvin light or warmlight/warmwhite is better when you don't want those pesky insects killing your bulb if it were to invade the driver board, the filipino consumers are bit hardheaded because they are accustomed to Daylight bulbs

    They also did a research on LED's daylight that if it still attracts bugs and it still is.... we used to have a LED showroom before whenever nighttime starts you'll see different bugs sticking on the fixtures

    Good thing about those bulbs that I can still use the light even the E26/27 bulb socket is heavily dented just make sure that you take off the metal socket of E26/27 is taken out leaving 2 wires and you can test it on a CPU socket from the power supply (do be careful not to do it on a socket or extension cord unless you really know what to do)
  • May nakagamit na ba ng 16w led bulb or led tube? Plano ko kasi palitan yung 40w flourescent namin sa sala and I'm worried kung kaya pantayan yung light output, almost 1000 lumens kasi ang difference.

    Max 16w led bulb/tube is 1600 lumens while 40w flourescent is 2500+ lumens.