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Old 12-12-2007, 02:19 AM   #4 (permalink)
trebuchet03
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Originally Posted by MetroMPG View Post
LED's are fine and dandy. Avoid the blue ones though. They do something funny to my eyes. (Seriously - they're very hard to look at, and I'm sure it's not just me.)
All of mine do that -- the blue one's are just more intense I think. It's the 60 cycle flicker... Unless your LED's are running on DC power Not sure which method is more efficient - on one hand, you have to convert over to DC -- on the other, the current limiting resistors get quite warm :/

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I have been using LED lights year round as accent lamps. I have had one blue bulb go out in two years (it just went out).

http://www.instructables.com/id/2-Watt-LED-Accent-Lamp/
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