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Westinghouse Lighting 03490 Nanolux 1-Watt S11 LED Bulb, White by Westinghouse
Product DetailsManufacturer: Westinghouse Brand: Westinghouse Edition: Tools & Home Improvement Model: 3490 Color: White Publisher: Westinghouse Studio: Westinghouse Music Label: Westinghouse Product features: - Consumes only 1-Watt - energy efficient bulb
- 50,000 hours of usage
- S11 lamp shape
- Indoor or outdoor high output
- Intense white rich color
Tools and Hardware Reviews of Westinghouse Lighting 03490 Nanolux 1-Watt S11 LED Bulb, WhiteCustomer Review: Cool Bulb! Very low amount of light but extremely energy efficient! Summary: 3 Stars
This light is advertised as a 1 watt LED bulb. I bought two of these a while back ($12.50 each) to help reduce our electric usage. I run most of our house on solar so every watt helps.
I already have a ton of energy efficient bulbs, all of which were Compact Fluorescents. The closest bulb I can compare to this 1watt LED is my 7watt CF bulb. What surprised me is that it was clear that 7 of these LED bulbs wouldn't output as much light as my single 7watt CF bulb. This surprised me considering LED's are supposed to be more energy efficient.
So what I did next is measured 2 of these bulbs over two days using my kill-o-watt meter. My killowatt meter shows 0watts being consumed even when measuring both of the bulbs combined, so clearly they are using less than .5 watts each. After measuring total watt hours consumed over two days and running the numbers, I found they were each consuming around 0.3 watts of electricity. This means I can run almost 25 of these and still use the same electricity as my single 7watt CF bulb. 25 of these would definitely have more light than the single 7watt CF bulb, but that would also be very costly... $300! These are best for specific places, anywhere a dim light is useful.
I like the bulb because it's so tiny and consumes almost an unmeasurable amount of electricity. It also doesn't require mercury like CF bulbs do. The light output is low, but about what I expected since I read the other reviews. I'll be buying the "3 watt" version sometime in the future and will post how many watts the 3watt version really consumes and how it compares to this "1 watt" bulb.
NOTE: The reason why I gave this only a 3 is because this isn't really a 1 watt LED bulb, it's a 0.3 watt LED bulb advertised as a 1 watt bulb. It's also somewhat on the blue side. If the price drops a lot, I might get more of these.
Description of Westinghouse Lighting 03490 Nanolux 1-Watt S11 LED Bulb, White1 watt 120 volt S11 Medium Screw (E26) Base White LED Westinghouse Light Bulb
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