CREE LED Sale at Home Depot
 

I don't know if this is an every store thing, regional, local, or what. But, Home Depot has been having a great sale on CREE brand LED replacement clusters for popular household bulbs. This was the purchase from my last visit (Had 2 visits like this thus far):
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And this is the add on their website. Most of these are only available IN STORE:
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The lights are offered in both hot and cool temps. I think hot is 2700K and cool is around 5000K. For the one bulb style there is also a 40 watt and 60 watt option.

They can offer such good prices because they don't give out bags anymore...

Lol, jk. Thanks for the deal alert. :)

We've already switched from CFL to Cree LED lamps in our home...lowered the electric bill slightly (I hope), since LED's are slightly more efficient (less power hungary) than CFL's of same Lumen output...and...they (LEDs) don't "cook" themselves to death when installed bulb-down as CFLs do.

I have a wide range of brands of LEDs in my house, nearly every room and they work great outside in the cold, full brightness right away.

Has anyone had an experience with a Cree LED getting extremely hot almost as hot has an incandescent? Was wondering if that was normal. Returned the bulb but haven't tried another.

My fiance and I have about 20-25 CREE LED clusters in use at the moment. Not one of them gets hot to the touch on the globe. The only warm-hot location are the cooling fins. I'd go back and try another just to see if it was a flaw/defect.

Thanks for the heads up!

Has anybody done the math on those things? IIRC they deliver about 70-75 lumens per watt.
I have some GE 26w CFs delivering 1750 lumens, that's about 67 lpw. You might get a savings, but don't be expecting much. Not saying it's a bad idea to switch - if you have hard-to-reach fixtures that are a big pain to change, the LED is probably a great choice just to get that chore out of the way for a few years. But if you're switching strictly for the savings, you might not see enough of one to experience a payback in the bulb's lifetime.

Cree and Philips both have lab results on LEDs generating over 200 lumens per watt, I'm holding out for a complete lamp that delivers at least 150 before I do a whole-house change. That should be worth the trouble.

That's one of their best features. My porch lights are CF, in winter if they're turned off and cool down they need about five minutes to get back to full brightness.

Yeah. I bought a couple of the "daylight" ones for particular task lights, just for the more natural light quality, but don't see enough of a cost savings over the current CFLs to replace all of them. And unlike some people, I don't see the CFLs burning out regularly. I think I've lost one or two over the years, and I have a couple that date back to maybe the mid-90s, before the twisty shape became standard. One (my bedroom reading lamp) gets used just about every night, too.