Mike embarks into the 21st Century - one light bulb at a time

Our house was designed using ceiling can down lights. We have probably  30+ in the ceilings and porches and shortly after we moved in I installed six flood lights that wash the front of the house.

The inside and porch lights are 65 watt lamps and the floods are 90 watt.  We replace the outside lights about 3 times a year since they are on timers and the front porch lights about 4 times a year because they are 24/7. That's a lot of watts.

I decided to replace all our lights with the new LED lights.  We have already replaced our lamp bulbs with fluorescent.

Here's the rub.  I can buy 65 watt lamps for about 2 dollars and the 90 watt out floods for about $4.95.

LED lights to replace the 65 watt lamps are $19.00. The Outside Flood LEDs are $32.00 each.

Changing all six floods at once would cost $192.00 and to replace the the rest would be about $600.00

SO-O-O-O-O  I am replacing them one at a time.  As they burn out, in come the new LEDs.

Why you ask?  

The 90 watt existing Floods last 1,500 hours and the LEDs last 25,000 hours and are 23 watts for an equal amount of light.

The 65 watt down lights last about 1,200 hours compared to 25,000 hours for LED and the new light bulbs are 13 watts for equal light.

They pay for themselves very, very fast.  They also cost very, very much.  One at a time.