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First LED replacement for 100-watt incandescent bulb hits the market
Although several manufacturers have plans to release long-lasting, energy-sipping LED A-Line bulbs that replace the near-obsolete 100-watt incandescent, Osram Sylvania becomes the first to so.
Fri, Nov 16 2012 at 12:47 PM
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As lighting manufacturers race to produce long-lasting LED bulbs that can turned on and off via smartphone, transform your powder room into a discothèque, and/or cause a sticker shock-related stroke in the aisle of your local Home Depot (and don’t forget about IKEA!), Osram Sylvania has become the first company to bring a 100-watt equivalent LED incandescent replacement bulb to the market.
Back in May, I wrote about the 27-watt Energy Smart LED, a 100-watt replacement bulb from GE and Nuventix that features an innovative jet-based cooling system. The last I heard, that bulb won’t be released until early next year so it looks like Osram Sylvania beat ‘em to the punch.
However there are a couple of key differences between the two omnidirectional A-Line bulbs, both meant to replace near-extinct 100-watt incandescent bulbs (to be clear, thanks to evil incandescent overlord Michele Bachmann Congress, those bulbs haven’t technically been phased-out as was initially planned but their manufacture has pretty much ceased anyway).
For one, the new bulb from Osram Sylvania — a bulb that will be joining the company’s existing line of Ultra LED 40-, 60-, and 75-watt replacements — is larger than the GE 100-watt replacement bulb with a size of A21. This may prevent it from fitting in all fixtures whereas the GE bulb’s A19 size renders it a bit more versatile. And although physically larger, the Osram Sylvania bulb consumes 20 watts of electricity while the GE bulb consumes 27 watts. Both have projected lifespans of 25,000 hours — about 25 times longer than traditional incandescent bulbs. Osram Sylvania projects that over its lifetime, the 100-watt replacement Ultra LED will score consumers in the ballpark of $220 in energy savings (calculated at a cost of $0.11/kWh) compared to a standard incandescent.
Osram Sylvania’s new bulb boasts a CRI of 80, an output of 1600 lumens, and a warm white color temperature of 2700k. It’s also dimmable and, of course, free of mercury and lead.
Sporting a price tag of, gulp, $50, the bulb will be sold at Lowe's. With a price tag like that, most consumers will likely continue to opt for inferior 100-watt replacement bulbs of the CFL variety until the cost is halved. And then halved again. And then halved one more time.
Via [The New York Times]
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Yawn - I work in the solid state lighting biz- I do analysis of
LED luminiares - this one gets a B - there are lamps that
are far more advanced then this latest entry from Sylvania-
Philips has a 150 watt A-21 equivilant- This product has only a
single set CCT. Its NOT ADDRESSABLE - it doesn't
have a built in PIR ( vacancy sensor builtin - or a smoke
detector, or air purifier-) Its not bad just FAR from cutting
edge.
It is very far from cutting edge when it comes to price .
All brand names LED cost a fortune and it will take many years to recover investment.
Same time you an buy very good quality 100 W replacement by no name companies at fraction of the cost.
Are these LED lamps dimmable?
They can be not only dimmable , you can also buy new models with remote control and change color and intensity of the light. You can have any color from warm white 2800 k to very cold white 6800k.
I'm sure the price tag is high now, but like we've seen with most electronics that price will likely come down in the next couple of years. Personally I'd love to swap out my toxic energy efficient bulbs for LED.
Haitz Law claims that all output per watt will double every two years. I have LED 7 W 600 lm ( equal to 60 W incandescent for less than 6$, and 10W 1100 LM for 12$. We an also supply 20 W 2000 lm for about 20$ and that is few hundred % lower than Osram , Philips or GE
27W to replace 100W bulb?
In my experience 14W is more then enough, and is already available for over more then a year.. (at least in Belgium)
Kind regards
Eric
Cree makes hip with output over 200 lm per W.
I am working with few companies which supply us with products at avg. 110 Lm per W .
27 W to replace 100 W is so outdated, and so overpriced.
Hi Eric, what brand have you seen or used in Belgium? Perhaps we should send some here or at least have it CSA listed?
Brand names have huge problem, and it will take years for them to run out of glitch of outdated, overpriced, CFL and LED products.
I know for a fact that most LED products in the market are about 1-1.5 yr old technology.
Price of LED hips is falling like semiconductors in electronics, and flood of no name or new names is coming to the market.
We know at least 10 or more companies which give you products with 3 yr guarantee, and less than half price of brand names.