Sharp's New LED Lamps Are High Tech Lighting
Welcome to the future of lighting.
Many households are switching over to CCFL lightbulbs for the energy savings, but on the horizon is an even more efficient type of lighting – LED. We’ve already seen what going to LED can do for our LCD displays, and it can do the same for a household with decreased energy consumption and increased output.
Unfortunately, LED lightbulbs are still a very new and expensive technology, but it’s slowly getting there. Sharp is one such company bringing out LED lightbulb technology and will be introducing nine new lamps for the Japanese market on July 15.
Sharp’s upcoming bulbs are a direct drop-in (well, screw-in) replacement for the household lightbulb. What sets Sharp’s new models apart from the other LED bulbs on the market is that they feature an “Adjustable Color Function” that enables users to change the color of the white light emitted from the lamp using an accessory remote control. Users can select from seven different shades of white ranging from a pleasing warm white to a cooler daylight white to match the weather, the season, time of day, purpose, or other preferences. It can also be dimmed for those ‘special’ occasions.
Sharp’s new bulbs deliver a brightness up to 560 lumens, which it claims is among the highest in the industry for LED lamps for households. All models feature a service life of 40,000 hours.
Sharp also points out that its LED lamps emit almost no light in the 350-nm (ultraviolet) waveband that tends to attract insects, thus minimizing dirt and contamination of the lighting fixture from flying bugs and insects.
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Too bad they are like $50 for a single bulb. Even if I used the light 10 hours a day it would take forever to pay itself off!
you would never need to buy that light bulb again though, as long as it actually lasts 40,000 hrs. I think i would play around with that white level a lot though to try to match the outside light.
I like this technology but the price for a light bulb is stupidly high. And honestly, why does everything have to become overly complicated? Let's put a remote control for our light bulbs. No! All I want is a screw in light bulb that works! So I'm supposed to put this remote for my light bulb shade of white, next to my DVD player remote, TV remote, Media center remote, blu ray remote, and my DVR remote. OKKKKKKKKKK
Unfortunately as with any new technology it's very very expensive at first. Every time I mention something on sale to either of my parents I get the "You know how much that would've cost in 19XX" (That is even if it existed in that model/speed/performance level) They will come down in price when they become mainstream. I remember paying 100$ for 2GB of DDR2 667 memory, a while ago I got 4GB of DDR2 800 for 9.99 after rebates. Things change, and the price will drop.
Not to mention some people would find a light remote very entertaining and worth the $50 ^_^
No bugs, hey?
Ya this isnt new tech. CREE has been out there selling their XLamps for years now. They have this cool chip that is adjustable allowing you to specify what color temp you want. Friend of mine has the recessed lighting in his house, using 6w of energy with a great illumination.
Another thing CREE has been selling is their industrial lighting. The Pentagon as well as cities like Anchorage have installed their lighting drastically reducing the energy cost as well as the maintenance required to replace.
I myself have some of my investment in CREE. The household and commercial LED lighting revolution is just starting. 5 years from now they will be as common as CF bulbs.
I'll wait for the remote controled LED disco bulb before stretching my wallet that far.
I'll wait for the remote controled LED disco bulb before stretching my wallet that far.
+1
Staying alive staying alive...
LED bulbs last forever take forever for it to pay itself back vs incondecent or compact etc. But main reason to buy it is you can get the color right instead of reading the bulb packages for the tone you like and you'll probably wont have to replace it in like 10 years or more.
I remember paying 100$ for 2GB of DDR2 667 memory, a while ago I got 4GB of DDR2 800 for 9.99 after rebates.
I paid over $200.00 (on sale) for 4MB (not GB) of Non-Parity SIMM Memory (could not afford the EDO, too expensive) for my 486 back in early 1994. Ironically, if you can still find SIMM Memory it's probably the same price due to the lack of supply lol
Yeah the price is a little heafty but if they actually work 40000 hours then they will last at a usage of 7 hours every day no less than 15(nearly 16) years so yeah pay 50$ for something that lasts 15 years seems like a good thing (most likely you'll end up changing it because it will become obsolete).
Let's see ... minimum lifetime is 40,000 hours. At 8 hours use per day that's almost 14 years. I can see why not attracting bugs suddenly become an issue.
Futhermore, it's 1/8th of a cent per running hour and it uses between 1/25th and 1/35th the power of a standard light bulb, or between half and a third of CCFL lightbulb.
Yeah, it's actually a good investment in the long run. You just don't normally think of light bulbs as something that is as permanent as the house it's in.
More efficient great, longer life that's nice, color adjustment . . . little much for a light bulb, but if last for 15 years why not. But the best part, is it's not chuck full of mercury like a cfl.
People are switching to CFL's, not CCFL's if i'm not mistaken.
I paid over $200.00 (on sale) for 4MB (not GB) of Non-Parity SIMM Memory (could not afford the EDO, too expensive) for my 486 back in early 1994. Ironically, if you can still find SIMM Memory it's probably the same price due to the lack of supply lol
Hey I paid the same price for my 486 around '94. I thought I was getting a great deal too! Going from 4Mb - 8Mb of memory back then was such a huge leap in performance.
UV rays help kill microbs.
will my logitech 880 control them? or will i need a special adapter? =/ ps3
Like everything else, time will lower the cost. What will hurt acceptance at the beginning (besides costs) is that 560 lumens, is a bit more light that a 40 watt incandescent bulb puts out. I'm getting old. I need all the light I can get....
Sam's Club offers 3 LED bulbs that each replace a 40 watt incadecent for under $20. LEDs don't come in higher outputs yet or they are not very common. When they sell 60 watt replacements, I will make the jump.
led lights are coming down in price now ,
if anyone wants to fit thier house out look at ctledlight.co.uk and tell them what you want if its not on thier site, they will give you a quote . its cheaper to buy a few at a time rather than a small amount. all i wanted was direct replacements to save money on electricity.
I installed a couple of 0.2W LED night lights not long ago. They replaced 4W incandescents, so that's almost 8W of all-night-long power savings, a non-trivial amount over time, and they were only a couple of bucks to buy.
These are the effects of the Monetary system...
If energy saving was realy important to humanity they would make these light bulbs cheaper so everyone would get them and save energy!
But who cares.. not the people who make 1BIL a year...
I've paid 400$ for 32 Kb to upgrade my TRS-80 to 48 kb.
And my 10 Mb hd for my Victor 9000 was near 2000$.
Yea, i'm not a teenager anymore . 8-)
hehehehe, yes in the '80 a 10 Mb Hd was a big thing and very very expensive...my dad told me the same thing...with a radio shak computer? or it was circuit city?
I've paid 400$ for 32 Kb to upgrade my TRS-80 to 48 kb. And my 10 Mb hd for my Victor 9000 was near 2000$.Yea, i'm not a teenager anymore . 8-)
I paid 12$ to upgrade my trs-80 coco 2 to 64k
I like this technology but the price for a light bulb is stupidly high. And honestly, why does everything have to become overly complicated? Let's put a remote control for our light bulbs. No! All I want is a screw in light bulb that works! So I'm supposed to put this remote for my light bulb shade of white, next to my DVD player remote, TV remote, Media center remote, blu ray remote, and my DVR remote. OKKKKKKKKKK
You need a remote controller to control your remote controllers.
hehehehe, yes in the '80 a 10 Mb Hd was a big thing and very very expensive...my dad told me the same thing...with a radio shak computer? or it was circuit city?
For sometime I was thinking these forums had nobody 30+... glad to see you all there. I bought a 386DX - 40MHZ (it was an AMD chip) with 2mb ram and 510MB HD for $1,700 with a 15" crt in 1992. At the time I said, "Man what a bargain. 5 years ago (1987) I would have had to spend twice as much for half the power". Things never change.
As for the new LED bulb... I like the ability to control the color temperature and don't doubt the bulbe will go at least 10 years. My bigger concern is to plunck down the money and lose the remote or the remote will fail in 3-5 years.
I'm might of made a mistake... might not have been a 510MB HD... could have been 50MB HD. Damn!