I've stocked up on 100 watt incandescents (sp) too. I have a box of 100 in the store room. Those curly bulbs just don't cut it for me. But new is not always bad and staying with the old is not always good. This morning I took delivery of four new six tube T5 fluorescent fixtures for the old shop. T5's are the skinny little tubes about the size of your middle finger. They're replacing the big old reliable but dim T8's that came out of an old school building 30 years ago.
I have four of these T5 light fixtures in the new shop and they are super bright, much brighter than the old big tube T8's, and they use less juice considering the extra light I'm getting. I can't hardly look at the T5's because they're so bright where I can look at the T8's all day and not get sore eyes.
So, crunching numbers here, the old shop currently has 24- forty watt T8's on the ceiling. I'm replacing them with 24- fifty four watt T5's. The old T8's all together pull 960 watts or thereabouts. The new T5's all together pull 1296 watts. The new ones are twice as bright at least. When I step out of the new shop that has 24 T5's and I go to the old shop with 24 T8's I look up at the T8's to see if they came on, there's that much difference. Both shops are about the same square footage with about the same ceiling height and both shops have white walls.
A week ago I put up a new 48 watt LED all night yard light. I'm still evaluating the amount of light it gives out but it seems brighter than the old 175 watt mercury vapor light by the barn. Even if the LED and the mercury vapor give out the same light the LED is pulling less than half the wattage. Hopefully that's a saving my pocketbook some money. The future will tell. The one drawback to switching to new lighting is the initial cost. Jim
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