So I have a small hanging fixture in my front hall; Mom and I call it "the chandelier" which is a bit grand, but whatever. It's about seven or eight feet off the ground and it likes to kill a bulb about once a month (or so), which is ridiculous IMO. Probably has to do with the fact that the fixture's been in this house since the late 1980s, and the wiring dates to 1950 or so. It takes three candelabra bulbs and usually gets 25w incandescents. When it's on, it lights up the hall quite nicely... until the bulbs pop, of course.
I also have a height phobia, of a sort, which means that when I'm on a ladder changing the bulbs in that damn thing, I'm holding onto the ladder with a literal white-knuckle grip because I feel like I'm two millimeters from falling flat on my ass. As padded as that ass is, lol, it's still going to hurt if and when I land on it.
So these incandescent bulbs get replaced all at once, usually about a couple months after they've all blown... and then only because Mom won't stop bugging me about it.
Of course, LED bulbs are available from my local Wal*Mart -- for the sort of funds that NASA would spend on a second moonshot. They're not only particularly expensive, they're particularly /dim/. As in, so anemic I almost have to look at the switch to see if the lamp is on... ugh, what a waste of machinery.
LED bulbs still catch my interest here, though -- not only are they environmentally somewhat tolerable (lower energy usage is pretty good stuff, but "RoHS compliant" != "trees are my friends", if you know what I mean...) but they last basically forever. Like, the PCB inside will fall apart before the LEDs die, at least in theory. I've heard LED lifespans are usually somewhere around ten to twenty *years*!
So what I'm looking for here, is a source of "good" LED bulbs. Specifically, by "good" I mean...
(1) relatively inexpensive (let's say $5 or less per bulb)
(2) relatively long-lasting (let's set the bar at five years or so, considering they'll be on for at least 14 hours a day)
(3) BRIGHT (I believe our spare bulbs --GE 25w "flame shape" clear bulbs, candelabra base-- are 155-lumen models, for reference)
(4) compatible, of course (candelabra base, "flame shape" -- but not "fat flame shape" like the CFL ones, or they won't fit)
NB: I tend to avoid Amazon --don't tell Kyle!-- because I have to use Mom's account. Of course that's only an issue if the items arrive dead or damaged... but I don't want to risk it, you know?
Help me out here, folks, where can I get bulbs like that?
I also have a height phobia, of a sort, which means that when I'm on a ladder changing the bulbs in that damn thing, I'm holding onto the ladder with a literal white-knuckle grip because I feel like I'm two millimeters from falling flat on my ass. As padded as that ass is, lol, it's still going to hurt if and when I land on it.
So these incandescent bulbs get replaced all at once, usually about a couple months after they've all blown... and then only because Mom won't stop bugging me about it.
Of course, LED bulbs are available from my local Wal*Mart -- for the sort of funds that NASA would spend on a second moonshot. They're not only particularly expensive, they're particularly /dim/. As in, so anemic I almost have to look at the switch to see if the lamp is on... ugh, what a waste of machinery.
LED bulbs still catch my interest here, though -- not only are they environmentally somewhat tolerable (lower energy usage is pretty good stuff, but "RoHS compliant" != "trees are my friends", if you know what I mean...) but they last basically forever. Like, the PCB inside will fall apart before the LEDs die, at least in theory. I've heard LED lifespans are usually somewhere around ten to twenty *years*!
So what I'm looking for here, is a source of "good" LED bulbs. Specifically, by "good" I mean...
(1) relatively inexpensive (let's say $5 or less per bulb)
(2) relatively long-lasting (let's set the bar at five years or so, considering they'll be on for at least 14 hours a day)
(3) BRIGHT (I believe our spare bulbs --GE 25w "flame shape" clear bulbs, candelabra base-- are 155-lumen models, for reference)
(4) compatible, of course (candelabra base, "flame shape" -- but not "fat flame shape" like the CFL ones, or they won't fit)
NB: I tend to avoid Amazon --don't tell Kyle!-- because I have to use Mom's account. Of course that's only an issue if the items arrive dead or damaged... but I don't want to risk it, you know?
Help me out here, folks, where can I get bulbs like that?