GU10 CFLs

[Steve]

I bought a pack of 6 of these last night on Ebay, and was just wondering, have they improved in the last couple of years? I had 3 in my bathroom, one by one they are failing (quietly and subtly I might add, no explosions yet!)

The ones I bought claimed they have "ingenium" technology. My main bugbear is the warm up time of a good few minutes. Have they sorted this?

 

[Chri5]

There's always a bit of warm up, I'd imagine flea bay product isn't a main brand like philips or osmram (spell error!).

LED 5w items work very well, but are still slightly dimer than generic GU10 50w and cost a bit 5w = £20

 

[RichThompson]

Hello,

My office had all the 12v halogen spotlights replaced earlier in the year, including in the gents toilets downstairs. If i'm the first person to arrive in the morning and want to use the gents, when I turn the lights on, the room seems darker than when the lights were off, thats how bad they are in terms of warm up time. The toilets have about 7 "9 watt" lights and the output (even when warmed up) is poor.

I believe they are Megaman downlighters.

R

 

[ban-all-sheds]

osmram (spell error!).

It was 15 times as much work to add " (spell error!)" than to put it right....

LED 5w items work very well

Do they actually produce any useful illumination now, or are they still a strange combination of a light so intense that it boils your eyeballs if you stare straight at it, but so useless in practice that it makes the room darker when you turn it on?

 

[Steve]

Forgot to mention, they are Megaman lights. I have been impressed with them (once warmed up)

 

[LiamPope]

Looking at Megaman's website, they are about to release their own LED lamps. They are doing a 7W LED GU10, although it's longer than a halogen as CFLs are. Strangely they quote a 35W halogen equivalence, wheras those 5W LEDs on TLC claim a 45W equivalence.

I'm still patiently waiting for somebody to do some experimentation with these before shelling out myself. Free-with-the-fittings cheap tat halogens are already failing on me after just 10s of hours!

Liam

 

[Goldberg]

osmram (spell error!).

It was 15 times as much work to add " (spell error!)" than to put it right....

...and doubtless it was something that many people noticed, but nobody else thought it either necessary or kind to point out, let alone spend time counting characters.

LED 5w items work very well

Do they actually produce any useful illumination now, or are they still a strange combination of a light so intense that it boils your eyeballs if you stare straight at it, but so useless in practice that it makes the room darker when you turn it on?

The illumination is just fine, unless you're one of those people whose need to be picky blinds every decison they make and takes precedence over all self-control.

 

[Steve]

Guys calm down. Its only a lamp.

Anyway, I took delivery of six Megaman 9 watt GU10 lamps today.

One of the old ones is still working. With the two new ones next to it, the difference is quite amazing. They are brighter on first strike up, and get brighter a lot quicker than I remember the old ones.

I'm glad I got six, I have two in my bedroom now, will replace the other two when they burn out.

 

[Click-Sure]

Ive got megaman lamps in my study and they're ****.

 

[Steve]

evidently this is a matter of personal preference and opinion.

 

[RF Lighting]

I worked for the bloke that owns megaman.

He has a MASSIVE house.

 

[ricicle]

I worked for the bloke that owns megaman.

He has a MASSIVE house.

What else did you expect ?

 

[Steve]

did you fit a load of megaman lights for him?

 

[RF Lighting]

He had a couple, but preferred good old fashioned candle lamps

 

[r.bartlett]

We have 15 11w megamans but I certainly wouldn't use them in a bedroom!

That aside don't forget they come in different LUX so the light can vary in both colour and brightness