Incandescent lights

On 02/05/2015 03:14 PM, Tothwolf wrote: I have VERY few incandescents here. I have started converting our kitchen (where the lights are on a LOT of the day) to LED. I couldn't find anything I liked (some LED fixtures are actually on recall as a fire hazard) so I built my own. I made a 10 LED fixture with Cree 1W LEDs first for our pantry/laundry room, which had the worst lighting in the house. (A recessed fixture too cramped to fit a CFL, and made so it lit a spot on the floor and not the room.) I built my own constant current source for it, and it was a huge success. So, then I built two retrofits for dual 48" fluorescent tubes. These have a string of 20 1 W Cree LEDs and a commercial LED lighting power supply. The old magnetic ballast drew 103 W, the new LED system shows 21 W, and the lights actually appear brighter than the fluorescents. I was worried that the color temperature would be horrible, the LEDs look real blue if you look at them, but with the fixture, diffuser and the whole room, they look perfectly normal. (Warning, if you look right AT the LEDs, you will only be seeing spots for a couple minutes, they are blindingly bright.) Jon