Instant On & Color Rendering

A little more work? Okay. A little more money? Okay.
But if you propose I use “green” window cleanser and it leaves streaks, no way.
If you purpose I use an all organic fertilizer on my garden and the yield is half the size and half as tasty, no way. I won’t give up trying, but I won’t use those particular products again.
I find this to be true with CFL lighting. We’re encouraged to buy and use. And to be honest, I tried it. But it’s not what I expected.
It’s not instant on, not instant full brightness and lacked good color rendering and those were major turn-offs. It’s not going to cause you to run into walls because it doesn't come on instantly or it's too dim. It’s not going to cause you to not see colors. It’s just overall going to be a nuisance and some may tolerate but some will throw in the towel.

LEDs are not quite ready to take over the screw-in CFL market (by way of a one for one replacement of a standard incandescent A lamp) yet. There is no LED-source light bulb that looks like an incandescent bulb, performs the same, and is affordable. In fact, the US Government has a multi-million dollar reward out now for the first person to manufacture a product up to the standards they’ve set for light output, color rendering, lamp life, and all at a sell price a typical homeowner can afford. We know what we like, THE light bulb. If we are expected to change, give us an alternative that looks like it and performs like it. It’ll be here sooner than later and from that point on CFL will phase out and nobody will look back. Why would we?

But there are LED products on the market today that compete head-to-head with incandescent products and CFL products. So just because you can’t replace the light bulb in your reading lamp with LED, doesn’t mean you can’t switch SOME lighting over to LED today. It only means for new construction projects, residential and commercial, you should be thinking of LEDs from the beginning. How to integrate? How to maximize return on investment? How to truly be energy efficient? I’ll start showing some products in days to come. It’s time to put products where my blog is.