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As above just fitting 9 GU10 down lighters to my bedroom needless to say when they are all on we will be burning 360w and as a cheap skate that makes me shudder.
I have used 11w megaman florescent GU10's which I thought were quite good but are LED;s any better and worth getting
reccomendations please
I am trying a GE Energy Smart 4.5W LED GU10 replacement lamp. It is supposed to give out 200 lumens and equivalent to a 35W GU10. They also do a 7W LED lamp which I will go for as the 4.5W is ok but not quite bright enough.
They are not cheap though. With my discount, the 4.5W lamp was £15 and the 7W lamp will be £20 each! I got mine from Newey and Eyre wholesalers.
Senate electrical are doing 6W lamps for £16.25
Curly68 ta for that I will badger neweys on thursday when I collect some kit I have on order.
Good point about the output in that I have seen a few lamps with a 200lm output but some range from 4 to 8w power consumption
I've just fitted (like, yesterday) TLC's new GU10 LEDs to my kitchen to replace 12V equivalents (I cable with burnt insulation, one partially melted transformer found - running cooler lights will be a lot safer).
I've used a mix of V7s in 'daylight' (£13 +VAT) and V5s in Warm white (£8.75 plus VAT). The V7 is 4.3W and claims to be 283lumens. the V5 3.7w 190 lumen. The claim is V5's WW to replace 30w halogen (hence that 190 lumen claim) and V7DW 40W halogen.
The old halogens were a mix of colour temperature and despite all being 35w some were brighter than others (a few replacements over the years). I thought we were running 35W bulbs but it seems they were actually 20w's
the V5's are *very* yellow/warm. We've put them over the eating area and I think it's going to work well but I'd not put them everywhere. I'd say they're noticably dimmer that the 20w's they replaced but bright enough. The v7's are definitely significantly brighter than the 20s. TLC now do 3 temperatures with one between the warm and daylight. I'd go for that in future (in fact I thought it was what i ordered but the boxes only have two tickboxes and these are shown as daylight and I'm not going to send them back now).
Overally, seem well made. Look good but it seems you still have to take their ratings with a bit of a pinch of salt. At the price TLC are charging they're good value and I the payback time is reasonably short.
Or just speak to me nicely??
May be able to sort you out with some Of mine for a good price!! Complete fitting not lamp.
4.5w for 200lm is gash, and it's probably falsified as well!
For 7w you should be pushing for 450lm which is close to gu10, bear in mind a bare mr16 lamp is 950lm....