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Originally Posted by look 171
Ca title 24 suck a big one. No Vash, you must have it install during final inspection. The other way to go is to have flor. light or LED. the latest the the greatest. LEDs are about $40 bucks for the bulb on those little recess light. I have just guted a house now that has 3 baths and a huge kitchen. the dumb architect called for LEDs through out. We have over 75 recess lights through outthe house If we use a regular low voteage halogen lamp, that would only be $4.00 per bulb. That's a lot of money.
Oh, just so you know on other part of your remodel in your future, we can no longer use a regular recess light housing that accepts a screw on flor. bulb. The cheap ones that cost $3.00 at the market. they have to be flor. light specific which cost about 4 times a much.
Jeff
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I've been looking at the LED lights because of the impending outlaw of the incandescents. I hate fluorescents, and most of the LEDs are pretty lame too, but some of the newest are very good. We have 32 recessed PAR40 floods in the house with 65 watt bulbs. Cree makes a 10.5 watt replacement that dims as well as incandescents, are slightly brighter, are supposed to last > 30X as long as the incandescent (50,000 hours vs. 1500 hours), and the bulbs have a color rendering index of 92. To give you an idea of what that means, incandescents have a CRI of 97, and a typical fluorescent is around 82. I REALLY like these bulbs except for the $50 price, but if they really last 30X as long, then the $50 price is much cheaper than $120 for 30 incandescents. Add in the energy savings, and these bulbs are a bargain.
I bought four of these so far to change out one room, but I will wait for the incandescents to burn out to replace all the others. Since these bulbs are still very new the prices have been dropping pretty quickly, and the quality is getting better. I have seen one LED bulb that has a CRI of 94. A couple years ago the CRI on the LEDs was down in the 70s, with a really bad looking bluish light.
In our bathroom we have 3 6" cans, the same size as fit the PAR40 bulbs, but instead of the Edison base, these cans take a 9W fluorescent bulb with really dim, ugly light. So now I think I will swap these out for the cans with the Edison base so I can put the Cree LED bulbs in them.