I'm using an LED in our living room and it has none of the dimming with short-time-on problems you report with the CFL-hybrid. It also gives a warm and inviting light much like incandescent bulbs do, and according to its packaging it costs less than $1 a year to run. It's the only LED bulb in the house so far because it was an experiment, a compromise between me and other person, who wants fluorescent and halogens and CFLs everywhere to save money (and I hate them all: incandescent, FTW).
Now that I see how nice this bulb is - and how cheap; at Walmart the standard lamp-size bulb only runs like around $4 dollars each - I'm going to convert the five fluorescents in the kitchen (which are the landlord's, not ours) and the bathroom bulbs (which are a mix of the landlord's and ours) and the rest of our living room and bedroom bulbs.
I might even switch the lights on the front and back porches.
Our electric bill is hideous, mostly thanks to a bedroom that seems to also function as a greenhouse - it has its own environment completely cut off from the rest of the place; no insulation in the ceiling while the sun beats down on it in the afternoon, and thanks to how hot it is we have to keep the A/C four degrees cooler than is needed downstairs to get it cool enough upstairs to sleep, which adds about $100 more to our utility bill each month than if we could just keep the air four degrees warmer or at least cut it off once in a while.
The downstairs cools very easily and stays cool without the air running for hours at a time. Upstairs? The exact opposite.
But anyway, yeah (I got off on a bit of a tangent there, didn't I?) I would definitely say LEDs could be a good thing for you to try.
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Date: 2016-06-28 07:42 am (UTC)From:Now that I see how nice this bulb is - and how cheap; at Walmart the standard lamp-size bulb only runs like around $4 dollars each - I'm going to convert the five fluorescents in the kitchen (which are the landlord's, not ours) and the bathroom bulbs (which are a mix of the landlord's and ours) and the rest of our living room and bedroom bulbs.
I might even switch the lights on the front and back porches.
Our electric bill is hideous, mostly thanks to a bedroom that seems to also function as a greenhouse - it has its own environment completely cut off from the rest of the place; no insulation in the ceiling while the sun beats down on it in the afternoon, and thanks to how hot it is we have to keep the A/C four degrees cooler than is needed downstairs to get it cool enough upstairs to sleep, which adds about $100 more to our utility bill each month than if we could just keep the air four degrees warmer or at least cut it off once in a while.
The downstairs cools very easily and stays cool without the air running for hours at a time. Upstairs? The exact opposite.
But anyway, yeah (I got off on a bit of a tangent there, didn't I?) I would definitely say LEDs could be a good thing for you to try.