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LED Light-Bulbs Recommendations L. David Roper /roperldavid/ 28 December, 2011 I have been experimenting with LED bulbs available at Lowes and Home Depot. The best, in my opinion, are these Philips bulbs (/c-m-li/led-lightbulbs/standard/latest#filters=LED_BULB_SUsliders=price=priceBoxes=page=layout=12. rating.p-list-view ): ? Philips 40W Equivalent Soft White (2700K) A19 Dimmable LED 8W 475-lumens Light Bulb $11.97 at Home Depot. (Less in packs of 4 online) ? Philips 60W Equivalent Soft White (2700K) A21 Dimmable LED 11W 830-lumens Light Bulb $15.97 at Home Depot. (Less in packs of 4 online) ? Philips 75W Equivalent Soft White (2700K) A21 Dimmable LED 15W 1220-lumens Light Bulb $19.97 at Home Depot (less in packs of 2 online) ? Philips 100W Equivalent Soft White (2700K) A21 Dimmable LED 19W 1680-lumens Light Bulb $24.97 at Home Depot (Less in packs of 2 online) These are very rugged bulbs. Note the cooling fins on the 15W and 19W bulbs, as LEDs last longer when not subjected to high temperatures The lifetime for these bulbs is about 23 years @ 3 hours/day. Each bulb uses about 5 times less electrical energy than its incandescent equivalent does! Note the Soft or Warm color (2700K temperature), which is very close to the color of incandescent bulbs. You can also get White light, if you prefer. These lights won the U.S. Department of Energy L prize (/ ). ? L-Prize bulb partial teardown: /members/leeper/L%20prize%20bulb.htm ? /electronics-blogs/readerschoice/4311242/Remote-PhosphorsPhilips-LED-bulb-Tear-down-Part-II . They were made possible by the invention of a blue-light LED, which won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics: /physics-nobel-prize-is-about-more-than-just-abetter-light-bulb-2014-10 Here is a comparison of the spectra for a candle, an incandescent bulb and the Philips LED bulb: Candle Spectrum Incandescent Spectrum Philips LED Spectrum Compare these spectra to the visual spectrum /science/electromagneticspectraoflightbulbs.pdf The visual spectrum peaks in the