5w LED Bulb €1.49 Dealz

Andy From Sligo

snubbleste wrote: »

Well obviously you would not be buying one bulb.

Poundland is not going to fgive you discounts on how many bulbs you buy - sure you will be saving on postage if you were to order a load.

Best bet is to wait when they come back in stock at DEALZ - or have a word with staff and ask em to get some more stock in of the bulbs.

Or tell em they should have a fair buy policy where bulbs are limited to 5 bulbs per customer lol

rubadub

Dealz items are 1.49, £1 is €1.33 on google, not sure what you would get with the bank. Lets just say it is 16cent saving.

Nobody in their right mind is going to buy 1 bulb, on the other extreme if you bought enough stuff it would cancel the postage & pm costs, but it would take a lot. Post is free if over £50.

You would have to get 25 typical £1/€1.49 items to cancel out the PM fees.

42 items to cancel the PM and £2 delivery. But then you are near the 50 mark so might want to go over.

50 items might be too big to fit in a standard PM locker though, depending on what they are. Dealz is a bit out of the way for me so I would really value delivery option.

They don't seem to have any bayonet bulbs, you can get converters but I would rather not use them.

Not all offers are the same, in the UK 2 cans of regular coke are £1, but in Ireland you get 3 cans for €1.49

reubenreuben

Best to check the lumen level (often described as LM)instead of watts.

kyeev

Just installed the 200 lumens 3 watt bulbs there and they are noticeably yellower than the 330 lumen 5 watt.
So are giving a more incandescent bulb like colour I think...

Andy From Sligo

rubadub wrote: »

Dealz items are 1.49, £1 is €1.33 on google, not sure what you would get with the bank. Lets just say it is 16cent saving.

Nobody in their right mind is going to buy 1 bulb, on the other extreme if you bought enough stuff it would cancel the postage & pm costs, but it would take a lot. Post is free if over £50.

You would have to get 25 typical £1/€1.49 items to cancel out the PM fees.

42 items to cancel the PM and £2 delivery. But then you are near the 50 mark so might want to go over.

50 items might be too big to fit in a standard PM locker though, depending on what they are. Dealz is a bit out of the way for me so I would really value delivery option.

They don't seem to have any bayonet bulbs, you can get converters but I would rather not use them.

Not all offers are the same, in the UK 2 cans of regular coke are £1, but in Ireland you get 3 cans for €1.49

you've really thought about this haven't you - good man

Andy From Sligo

kyeev wrote: »

Just installed the 200 lumens 3 watt bulbs there and they are noticeably yellower than the 330 lumen 5 watt.
So are giving a more incandescent bulb like colour I think...

Thats good i might give em a try because I have 3x 5w round BC bulbs in our ceiling fitting and they good but very white compared to me other lamps, so I might change to 3w. - were the 3w ones u got candle type or the round type?

kyeev

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

Thats good i might give em a try because I have 3x 5w round BC bulbs in our ceiling fitting and they good but very white compared to me other lamps, so I might change to 3w. - were the 3w ones u got candle type or the round type?

Round type. Easy to see the colour difference between the two.
Now back at a similar brightness and light colour as I started with 4 x r50 40 watt, except using 12 watts instead of 160 !!

crabbypaddy

kyeev wrote: »

If these things last a decent amount of time, I'm going to permanently switch to led. Says 10,000 hours on the box...

Check how how they are after a couple of hours, if top is too hot to touch they won't be around in 10000 hours. I'll do a teardown when they're back in stock.

colm_mcm

crabbypaddy wrote: »

Check how how they are after a couple of hours, if top is too hot to touch they won't be around in 10000 hours. I'll do a teardown when they're back in stock.

Have a look on YouTube fir a guy called bigclivedotcom, he did a tear down of all the poundland ones

Andy From Sligo

what a shame I couldnt put up with the cold 'whiteness' colour rendering of the LED's Dealz bulbs on our 3 fitting ceiling light in the living room - now I have succumbed and admit defeat and put some 40w incandescent BC bulbs in it now I've gone up from 15w LED to 120w incandescent now .. but at least it really is warm white glow now - what a shame even now these days they still cannot make an LED bulb to exactly match the colour rendering of warm white, even though it says 'warm white' on the box.

crabbypaddy

[QUOTE=Andy From Sligo;98427843- what a shame even now these days they still cannot make an LED bulb to exactly match the colour rendering of warm white, even though it says 'warm white' on the box.[/QUOTE]

Of course they can but you're not going to get it in Dealz for 1.50. The IKEA ones are about the cheapest you'll get with good colour rendering warm white.

VincePP

If its brightness you want, then Ikea is the only store.

They now have an 1800 lumen bulb (E14 fitting, but they have BC22 to E14 adaptors - 2 for €1.50) for €15. Way too bright for domestic use, but if you have a dark garage with grey walls, it will make it like a summer's day!

Best value is the 2 pack of 1000 lumen E14 bulbs for €10. That's the brightness of a 100 watt incandescent.

Andy From Sligo

crabbypaddy wrote: »

Of course they can but you're not going to get it in Dealz for 1.50.

yep, your right of course. - Mind u the LED ones I took down will come handy for other light fittings i have in the house

corcaigh07

Is there a screw on type of the 5W LED bulb, not the small screw on, the bigger one?

Fitted 3 LEDs into the kitchen where I feel that 'warmth' people feel from lights isn't as important. Wouldn't like them in a bedroom or sitting room though.

What are the Candle style 5W LED bulbs like? Do they compare well to CFLs?

Andy From Sligo

just as a comparison of the colour rendering, although maybe cant see it too good in the photo. - (I had to turn down the exposure of the camera to show different colour)

redshoulder

About the colour, what do you expect from €1.49 bulb?

Subcomandante Marcos

I picked up some of these, I have the 5w bulbs in my hallway, kitchen and bathroom. They're perfect for those uses and cost peanuts. I'm happy with them.

Using Philips CFL's for the bedrooms and livingroom, got 10 of those for £22 on Amazon.

DIF

ablelocks wrote: »

are there any 5w or higher GU10 LED bulbs or do they stock them?

I tried the Dealz GU10 LED bulbs and they were pure rubbish - I bought 2 just to test them... one lasted 2 weeks and the other 3 weeks.

Lots of retailers are starting to sell good quality GU10 LED bulbs - I saw them recently in B&Q for a decent price.

wil

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

what a shame I couldnt put up with the cold 'whiteness' colour rendering of the LED's Dealz bulbs on our 3 fitting ceiling light in the living room - now I have succumbed and admit defeat and put some 40w incandescent BC bulbs in it now I've gone up from 15w LED to 120w incandescent now .. but at least it really is warm white glow now - what a shame even now these days they still cannot make an LED bulb to exactly match the colour rendering of warm white, even though it says 'warm white' on the box.

I don't know what it is about ireland, perhaps the dull days but I don't get the preference for so called warm white. Funnily enough at 2700K it is way cooler than the 6000K+ cool white I prefer as that is closer to daylight. I find warm white inferior for reading, perhaps a personal preference or my reliance on reading glasses.
In fact I cry a little every time I check a bulb and find the inevitable warm white. In other, perhaps sunnier climes, cool white is far more popular and more widely available.

Andy From Sligo

wil wrote:

I don't know what it is about ireland, perhaps the dull days but I don't get the preference for so called warm white. Funnily enough at 2700K it is way cooler than the 6000K+ cool white I prefer as that is closer to daylight. I find warm white inferior for reading, perhaps a personal preference or my reliance on reading glasses. In fact I cry a little every time I check a bulb and find the inevitable warm white. In other, perhaps sunnier climes, cool white is far more popular and more widely available.

It is funny how bulb temperature/rendering can change the feel of a room though. Our living room feels much warmer and cosier now I have put the incandescent bulbs back in the living room. No extra heating than before, no change in weather, if anything its colder outside, no just the warm white glow of the incandescent bulbs have made the room feel warmer again as opposed to the white/daylight of the led bulbs I had in there

bk

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

It is funny how bulb temperature/rendering can change the feel of a room though. Our living room feels much warmer and cosier now I have put the incandescent bulbs back in the living room. No extra heating than before, no change in weather, if anything its colder outside, no just the warm white glow of the incandescent bulbs have made the room feel warmer again as opposed to the white/daylight of the led bulbs I had in there

Decent LED bulbs will have the same colour temperature and be just as warm. And will pay back for themselves in about 6 to 9 months.

I just replaced my GU10's in my living room with Philips Hue lights and they are awesome, expensive, but complete control of not only the colour temperature, but the ability to display almost any colour.

Hotblack Desiato

Woodies are doing an offer on Osram GU10s, 2 pack for 12.99 (didn't see this online but is available in store)

Osram LED Star PAR16 50 35degree

5W, 350lm, 2700K warm white, 15000h, 100000 cycles, 3 year guarantee, not dimmable

corazon

I picked up some Osram MR16 warm white bulbs in Tesco a while back to replace some halogens. I installed them yesterday and am very impressed with them. Very nice light and not as harsh, much better for reading. They were in the clearance section reduced from €9.50 to €1.49. I got the last four remaining but need need about another dozen so will keep an eye out for them. The Tesco brand are €10.45 each but I am a bit wary of them.

crabbypaddy

wil wrote: »

I don't know what it is about ireland, perhaps the dull days but I don't get the preference for so called warm white. Funnily enough at 2700K it is way cooler than the 6000K+ cool white I prefer as that is closer to daylight. I find warm white inferior for reading, perhaps a personal preference or my reliance on reading glasses.
In fact I cry a little every time I check a bulb and find the inevitable warm white. In other, perhaps sunnier climes, cool white is far more popular and more widely available.

If you had a bulb with a decent CRI like the SORAA ones most people would be happy with a higher colour temperature. But people aren't prepared to pay 5 times the price for the priviledge. The issue is mainly the missing red spectrum and the peaky spectrum produced by typical phosphors in typical flourescents and leds.

Real daylight is full of red spectrum light, daylight flourescents, halides and leds typically have a tiny fraction of the red spectrum light that real daylight has giving everything a blue cast making people look like cadavers. Also 5400k is the equivalent of direct sunlight, mid summer at noon with a completely clear sky at our latitude.

Quackster

Mr Price currently have a range of LED bulbs of various fittings and up to 800 lumen that appear to be priced from about €1 to €4. Nigh on impossible to match each bulb to its correct price in my local store though due to the extremely haphazard placing (or complete lack) of individual price labels.

Quackster

Back to Dealz, I picked up two of the 6W SES golf balls last week and have found them an excellent replacement in terms of brightness and colour to the 40W soft-tone golf balls I had.

A few months ago, I installed one of the 3W bulbs in a location where it is on 24/7 and thus far, I have had no issues. Based on its rated lifespan, it should last about two years in constant usage. Will report back if it fails in the meantime.

Andy From Sligo

be careful about buying these 40watt Clear BC golfball bulbs from DEALZ. I personally question the quality. I had one blow on me within a month of buying , and when I went to remove it the glass part of the bulb was coming apart from the metal base, I would question if the glue is strong enough that they use to attach the glass to the metal BC base. - On the top of the Bulb is the word 'Status' - I think on the outside of the box was Electrek , there is no mention or warning on the box whether the lamps should be or not only be installed upright or pointing down.

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normanbond

Got these 3w bulbs in Dealz. Previously using 50 w bulbs. Bought 10 of them. 4 of them blew within 10 days. Other 6 work perfectly. Concluding that they can be good but quality control is poor...

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

be careful about buying these 40watt Clear BC golfball bulbs from DEALZ. I personally question the quality. I had one blow on me within a month of buying , and when I went to remove it the glass part of the bulb was coming apart from the metal base, I would question if the glue is strong enough that they use to attach the glass to the metal BC base. - On the top of the Bulb is the word 'Status' - I think on the outside of the box was Electrek , there is no mention or warning on the box whether the lamps should be or not only be installed upright or pointing down.

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Andy From Sligo

normanbond wrote: »

Got these 3w bulbs in Dealz. Previously using 50 w bulbs. Bought 10 of them. 4 of them blew within 10 days. Other 6 work perfectly. Concluding that they can be good but quality control is poor...

Do you personally bother taking them back for replacement or do you just put it down to you got them cheap anyway so dont bother? - i cant make up my mind to take them back for replacement/refund or not myself... plus i can find the bleeding receipt, typically! :rolleyes:

dominoman

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

Do you personally bother taking them back for replacement or do you just put it down to you got them cheap anyway so dont bother? - i cant make up my mind to take them back for replacement/refund or not myself... plus i can find the bleeding receipt, typically! :rolleyes:

I bought 5 of the 5W gu10 bulbs a few weeks ago. Two were DOA brought them back for replacement. Another two have since died but 3 are still going do much for 30,000 hours. Here's what they look like when taken apart.[IMG][/img]

TheDriver

I have same gu10 and notice some black in middle after forming. Not looking good plus they are very bright

Andy From Sligo

TheDriver wrote: »

I have same gu10 and notice some black in middle after forming. Not looking good plus they are very bright

possibly LED's over-driven with voltage , or not clean voltage - maybe thats why some of them fail premature

Andy From Sligo

I ordered 10x Osram make 11w CFL's the other day from ebay £16.99 for 10 - worked out €2.29 each not bad I suppose - as much as I liked the 5 watt LED lights at €1.49 and the thought of them using such tiny wattage, i found them too much on the white side rather than warm white (as they were supposed to be) and not as bright as a 40w bulb in the end. I think i got a bargain + I now have a few in stock now as and when I need them, dont think i have seen 11w CFL in Homebase or place like it for €2.29 each, has anyone else? - going back years now but I did get 11w Philips out of Homebase for €1 or €1.50, but I havent seen them that price for a long time... and they didnt last as many years as it said on the box!

Cape Clear

dominoman wrote: »

I bought 5 of the 5W gu10 bulbs a few weeks ago. Two were DOA brought them back for replacement. Another two have since died but 3 are still going do much for 30,000 hours. Here's what they look like when taken apart.[IMG][/img]

DOA- Have you managed to ascertain the cause of death or is the issue still with CSI?

Special Circumstances

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

I ordered 10x Osram make 11w CFL's the other day from ebay £16.99 for 10 - worked out €2.29 each not bad I suppose - as much as I liked the 5 watt LED lights at €1.49 and the thought of them using such tiny wattage, i found them too much on the white side rather than warm white (as they were supposed to be) and not as bright as a 40w bulb in the end. I think i got a bargain + I now have a few in stock now as and when I need them, dont think i have seen 11w CFL in Homebase or place like it for €2.29 each, has anyone else? - going back years now but I did get 11w Philips out of Homebase for €1 or €1.50, but I havent seen them that price for a long time... and they didnt last as many years as it said on the box!

CFLs are for prisons, orphanages and the home of mercury poisoned green party acolytes.

Good quality, branded LEDs from companies with actual quality control and testing are the way forward but bog standard filament bulbs are just fine for many situations really... CFLs are about as environmental as small capacity diesel engines. On paper the pseudo science of the greenies looks great, but they're just unnecessarily nasty in the real world.

L8rdude

As someone who bought 5 led bulbs a couple of moths ago I though I'd post here.

I bought 5 of the 5w LEDs from Dealz 3 of the smaller bulb, 2 of the larger bulb, bayonets.

2 of the smaller bulbs went after about 3-4 weeks, but the other 3 are going well. (over 2 months now)

I might try some of the 6w

_Tombstone_

I just bought one to try it out, it's not wasn't as bright as it should have been and stopped working after 2 weeks or so.

I wouldn't bother with them again.

dodzy

GU10 LEDs for this money?! Seriously, don't waste your time. They have to be useless at this price point. Get to ikea and get their variants for €6. Chalk and cheese.

kc66

dodzy wrote: »

GU10 LEDs for this money?! Seriously, don't waste your time. They have to be useless at this price point. Get to ikea and get their variants for €6. Chalk and cheese.

Having tried both, I agree.

Andy From Sligo

Special Circumstances wrote: »

CFLs are for prisons, orphanages and the home of mercury poisoned green party acolytes.

Good quality, branded LEDs from companies with actual quality control and testing are the way forward but bog standard filament bulbs are just fine for many situations really... CFLs are about as environmental as small capacity diesel engines. On paper the pseudo science of the greenies looks great, but they're just unnecessarily nasty in the real world.

I dont plan on cracking em open and releasing the mercury any time soon so i should be OK -

Still love the light output and colour rendering of the CFL bulbs I have to say (once they have warmed up) - so now I have swapped out 3x60w candles (180watt) for 3x 11wCFL (33w) - not as saving as the LED 3x 5w (15w), but just the right brightness and nice warm white colour

bk

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

Still love the light output and colour rendering of the CFL bulbs I have to say (once they have warmed up) - so now I have swapped out 3x60w candles (180watt) for 3x 11wCFL (33w) - not as saving as the LED 3x 5w (15w), but just the right brightness and nice warm white colour

A decent LED, like the IKEA ones, would have a colour rendering just as good, if not better then a CFL.

Andy From Sligo

bk wrote: »

A decent LED, like the IKEA ones, would have a colour rendering just as good, if not better then a CFL.

thats good - what wattage LED would you need to equal an 11w CFL or 60w Incandescent then? - we have no IKEA down in my neck of the woods , but we have a pretty good trade and retail electrical place called Cliffords in Sligo and they had a pretty good display of LED bulbs on display.... pricey though I bet. not as cheap as the CFL's I bought at €2.29 each or €1.49 DEALZ ones

Quackster

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

thats good - what wattage LED would you need to equal an 11w CFL or 60w Incandescent then? - we have no IKEA down in my neck of the woods , but we have a pretty good trade and retail electrical place called Cliffords in Sligo and they had a pretty good display of LED bulbs on display.... pricey though I bet. not as cheap as the CFL's I bought at €2.29 each or €1.49 DEALZ ones

I have several Osram LEDs that I picked up cheaply in Tesco last year when they were selling them off. The 6W bulbs are the equivalent of 40W incandescent and the 10W bulbs the equivalent of 60W incaldescent.

Capt'n Midnight

bk wrote: »

A decent LED, like the IKEA ones, would have a colour rendering just as good, if not better then a CFL.

Sunlight / incandescents have a continuous spectrum with no wavelength gapss

Being pedantic there's no such thing as a white LED or white CFL.

The colour depends on the phosphors used. Warm vs. cool is a user preference. Lampshades change colours too. But nowadays if you spend a bit more you can get RGB LED and choose your own colours.

Andy From Sligo

Quackster wrote: »

I have several Osram LEDs that I picked up cheaply in Tesco last year when they were selling them off. The 6W bulbs are the equivalent of 40W incandescent and the 10W bulbs the equivalent of 60W incaldescent.

Surprising that - so a 10watt LED = 60w ... but a 11watt CFL also equals 60w too - mind you on paper the LED should last longer (lifetime) and have no harmful mercury as the CFL has - but not saving on wattage then

Quackster

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

Surprising that - so a 10watt LED = 60w ... but a 11watt CFL also equals 60w too - mind you on paper the LED should last longer (lifetime) and have no harmful mercury as the CFL has - but not saving on wattage then

An 11W CFL is really the equivalent of a 55W incandescent but I think even that's a bit optimistic, especially as CFLs loose brightness over their working lives. There's no doubt that over the coming years LEDs will become even more efficient.

My Osrams are dimmable too which is something that's tricky to do with CFLs and doesn't produce the most pleasing results.

Andy From Sligo

Cool, I mean quite honest though when bringing out these LED lights they should have made them so they were all dimmable - wonder how many people have put them into a fitting with a dimmer switch either not reading or taking notice of what it said on the box. - With incandescant bulbs home consumers would have been in no doubt and could have used with or without a dimmer. no thinking even needed. so when they brought out 'replacements' (such as CFL or LED) at the very least they should have been on the market as being able to be dimmable as standard!

bk

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

Cool, I mean quite honest though when bringing out these LED lights they should have made them so they were all dimmable - wonder how many people have put them into a fitting with a dimmer switch either not reading or taking notice of what it said on the box. - With incandescant bulbs home consumers would have been in no doubt and could have used with or without a dimmer. no thinking even needed. so when they brought out 'replacements' (such as CFL or LED) at the very least they should have been on the market as being able to be dimmable as standard!

The problem is, even with dimmable LED's, they won't normally work properly with old fashioned dimmers designed for incandescent bulbs.

That isn't the LED's fault, it is because the old dimmers simply weren't designed to go so far down in voltage as LED's and CFL's go.

It isn't just a case is the LED dimmable or not, it is also the case of if your dimmer switch in a modern low voltage supporting one too. And if not, then you need to replace the dimmer switch too.

As to why they don't make all LED's dimmable, it is because it requires extra circuitry and electronics and thus extra cost. The reality is the majority of light switches aren't dimmable, so why make people pay more for something they don't need?

Andy From Sligo

bk wrote: »

The problem is, even with dimmable LED's, they won't normally work properly with old fashioned dimmers designed for incandescent bulbs.

That isn't the LED's fault, it is because the old dimmers simply weren't designed to go so far down in voltage as LED's and CFL's go.

It isn't just a case is the LED dimmable or not, it is also the case of if your dimmer switch in a modern low voltage supporting one too. And if not, then you need to replace the dimmer switch too.

As to why they don't make all LED's dimmable, it is because it requires extra circuitry and electronics and thus extra cost. The reality is the majority of light switches aren't dimmable, so why make people pay more for something they don't need?

ah right, didnt realise that some of the dimmable ones would not work properly on old dimmers. makes sense i suppose

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