Grip 30 LED Light Bulb
by Grand Rapids Industrial Products
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Grip 30 LED Light Bulb
Customer Review: LED'S PRODUCE AN ODD BLUE LIGHT ONLY GOTHS AND WEREWOLVES LOVE!
Summary: 3 Stars
Ok I am not complaining about the light bulbs. I brought these Grip LED lights knowing the light being created was the lowest quality blue light possible for home lighting. I knew before hand the light was scant to barely useful going in. I have a 9 bulb sputnik light in my tiny 8 x 10 dinning room. I figured with 9 bulbs I could get a respectible amount of light in such a small room that is painted off white,... WRONG! With nine of these LED lights burning all at once the combined light produced is barely adequate to eat soup by. I love the erie blue light as it has a quite unnatural hue. Ironically these lights would be great for a Holloween Haunted House. Put a but of dry ice about to produce some heavy ground level fog and these lights will create the creepiest haunted house ever.
These lights produce an unearthly bue grave yard at midnight deadness in even the brightest well appointed room. I would think goths and werewolves would be flocking to buy these bulbs because they are the closest thing to the dark dank unearthly nights we long for. These lights would make even the most beautiful womans features take on a haggish ghoulish pall. I enjoy the lights, I will be buying more when these go out. These lights are NOT ready for general use task lighting. Just too dim and the wrong part of the visable light spectrum. But they are a good start. In time LED's will be the green alternative to nasty CFL's and the toxic murcury they contain. Until LED's can be mass produced in people pleasing colors with an intesnsity that allows useful work CFL's will be our bridge between the Incandescent Light Bulb that has not changed much since Thomas Alva Edison invented it and LED technology that is truly a useful alternative.
I have a house where odd things abound. I want people to visit my home and have memories that shock and bering forth laughter. These lights give the Addams Family house a run for their money. Like I said if you like odd things these lights are for you. If you want the straight laced norman rockwell ever so normal home stick with CFL's because, LED technology is not good enough to be used in normal homes.
If you enjoy having an unusual house that is wilder than wild put these lights in a room you do not use for important stuff. Watch people freak out.
Customer Review: Listing lacks most relevant information
Summary: 3 Stars
Absolutely every light bulb listing on Amazon should include the following information:
1. Light output, measured in Lumens.
2. Power consumed, measured in Watts.
3. Socket type.
4. MTBF, measured in hundreds thousands of hours
A mean color (measured in nanometers) would be nice too.
Customer Review: Reasonable value, high efficiency, yet low light-level output
Summary: 3 Stars
Six months ago I purchased--on sale--a pair of these Grip 30-LED light bulbs from an Amazon vendor. Both bulbs arrived promptly and undamaged. The shipping cost for the pair was a bit costly, yet I was curious about utilizing them in a special application and to note how they stood up under constant use. One bulb failed within 45 days; however, the Amazon partner vendor promptly and politely replaced the defective bulb at no additional cost.
Be advised that the light level produced by this bulb is rather low and its resulting color hue is not warm (rather it is a cold, non-frosted white light). Nevertheless, the light level clearly is more than that produced by a typical solar outdoor garden light or any solar walkway light fixture; as was expected, the stability of the output of this 30-LED light bulb is constant.
In its current intended service, this bulb ensures that one always can see the walkway, safely climb the outdoor steps, and place a key in the door lock--all without blinding garish light bathing the grounds or facade of a period New England house. However, this 30-LED bulb is not suitable for all purposes and, thus, should not be purchased just to replace most of your standard incandescent light bulbs.
In its use as an energy-efficient replacement bulb screwed into a standard-socket outdoor wall lantern placed next to the entry doors of an historic house, this 30-LED light bulb has performed acceptably in continuous service for these past several months. As the outdoor lantern fixtures [wall-mounted on the facade next to the home's entryways] into which these bulbs are placed must be left on 24/7, the resulting electricity consumed monthly by both of these bulbs is negligible. This cost-effective operating factor, above all, has made the purchase of this 30-LED light bulb a sound and carefree choice for my special use.
At some point, moreover, I expect that lower-cost and brighter 60-LED or 100-LED (or larger) bulbs--perhaps with warmer hues--will be perfected for a wider range of applications.
Customer Review: Saves energy, but requires other types of light bulds in some circumstances...
Summary: 4 Stars
I thought I could save more money by replacing my CFLs over the bathrooms vanities with these. I should have ordered more to save more energy in my final configuration, though I cannot replace all of the bulbs in a single vanity with these. Even with five bulbs, the light above the vanity is too dim to see clearly when shaving or brushing your teeth. So, I replaced three in one bathroom and move the other bulbs to the other bathroom vanity. With two CFLs and three of these, there is plenty of light and I still save at least 24 more watts of power (13 per CFL bulb[x3] minus 5 max per LED replacement[x3]). Now I need a few more bulbs for the other bathroom... and maybe some more for other uses such as a backlight in the living room when watching movies at night...Customer Review: We are LED lighting pioneers
Summary: 3 Stars
The three stars that I gave to this bulb are actually intended for Amazon and the LED and fluorescent lighting industry in general, not necessarily this 30 LED bulb. The problem, as reflected by other posters, is that I'm not able to reasonably predict how these bulbs are going to perform based on the limited information about the bulbs that we get from Amazon and other sources.
Beware, from this point on my paragraphs are not structured.
This bulb replaced a $2+ Sylvania fluorescent bulb in a bedside lamp. The fluorescent bulb was too big for the lamp; it protruded above the lamp shade and was too bright to look at, even in peripheral vision.
I miss the fluorescent bulb because of its warm color. I understand that our eyes are least sensitive to blue so the blue hue of the LED bulb makes the area gloomy. So learning from my efforts as a LED pioneer, I now prefer warm-colored LED lighting.
The bulb had a reduced price, $3-something. The shipping actually cost more than the bulb did. I had initially put the Sylvania bulb in the lamp because the lamp will be used only for a short while every day, more expensive LED technology deemed a waste of money; it would never pay for itself regardless of lower power requirements. So I don't regret the LED bulb because of reduced price.
I estimate that the actual power consumed by the LED bulb is much less than the 13 watt Sylvania.
I regard the cheap, blue hue LED lighting that I've invested in so far to essentially act like flashlights, directed beams, but without needing batteries.
I saw tiny fluorescent bulbs (2 per package) in Walgreens a few days after the fact. But I didn't remember the brand name and haven't yet been able to cross-reference them on the Internet. I would probably have decided on them, although I will note that even with the shipping, the 30 LED bulb was cheaper.