Today's "What Gets My Goat" - NO POLITICS!

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That’s surprising. I replaced the two 4’ fluorescents in my kitchen with LED tubes a few weeks ago and feel like I need sunglasses in there.

You sure.  The ones they give us a work, which I think are cheapies, are nowhere near as bright as conventional tubes.  They do sometimes fool people into thinking they are quite bright as they tend to have a cold blue colour temp, rather then the warm yellow of conventional. 



I thought about them for my garage.  But just looking at what screwfix have.  A 5ft Philips 20w LED pumps out 2000lm.  A 58w 5ft Sylvania fluorescent pumps out 5200lm.  So naw sticking with the fluorescent in the garage.

The cheap bulbs are downright dangerous as well as short-lived. Some I got off ebay had fake CE markings (spacing between the letters wrong) so I took a look at the circuit and realised that if one of the LEDs went open-circuit the capacitor which was rated at 35V would have about 10x that across it. Sure enough, a few months later the lamp died and a minute later there was a bang which blew the top off leaving exposed mains dangling out.

Nasty.  I take it you have binned them all.