EvoLux S 13 Watt LED Medium Base Long Light Bulb, Cool White

by Advanced Lumonics, LLC

Product Description

Take advantage of LED technology and save money on your electric bill by using an energy efficient, environmentally friendly light bulb that is a suitable replacement of any indoor Watt incandescent bulb. The EvoLux not only uses a mere 13 Watts of energy

Product Details

• ASIN: B002492XJQ
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #258,597 in Home Improvement (See Top 100 in Home Improvement)

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16 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 4 and a half stars, August 10, 2009

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Rehu (PA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: EvoLux S 13 Watt LED Medium Base Long Light Bulb, Cool White (Misc.)

I've got to doc some points for being so expensive. Fortunately, these things are built to last years, so if you aren't currently collecting Social Security, chances are you'll live long enough to make back the money you spent with energy savings. I also have to doc points as these bulbs are not sized to fit properly in some lamp fixtures.
I bought one of the first generation LED bulbs eight years ago, and it couldn't even outshine a candle. For years I waited for brighter LED light bulbs to be manufactured, but nothing on the market could equal the lumen output of a traditional incandescent. This is the only product out there that can. It illuminates like nothing I've ever seen. It's almost like intense moonlight. The U.S. government is in the process of banning incandescents, when anyone who cares about the environment should be petitioning to ban compact fluorescent bulbs instead. Every time I see one of these going green commercials featuring some lady standing out in the wilderness holding one of these CF bulbs, I want to vomit. Don't these people realize that if one of those bulbs breaks, you've got to send OSHA out to clean up after all of the escaped mercury. People aren't supposed to dispose of these bulbs in regular trash but they do, by the millions, leading to the further pollution of our ground water. These LED bulbs outshine Compact fluorescents. They contain no harmful chemicals. They emit no harmful radiation (CF bulbs emit some UV rays and a slight amount of X-rays). They use less electricity than CF bulbs and far less than incandescents. They don't get too hot to handle, so your air conditioner doesn't have to work as hard in the summer, which contributes to your energy savings in a way the manufacturers don't mention. This is a technology of the future available to you today -a truly green technology.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, misleading advertising, March 21, 2010

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W. Roberts (IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: EvoLux S 13 Watt LED Medium Base Long Light Bulb, Cool White (Misc.)

This light was advertised as an equivalent to a 100W incandescent. I replaced a 30W CFL from GE that was similar brightness to a 100W incandescent. The results are disappointing to say the least. The pictures on the manufacturer's website have obviously had their color balance adjusted, or else this is a defective unit, as the light is much dimmer, and far too much on the blue side of the spectrum to call 'cool white'. It look s more like the 6700K HIDs on my car, than the 6000K advertised. Eyeballing it, I would say it is probably closer to a 50-60 W incandescent in brightness, with a CRI much lower than the >75 that is listed. I am looking into returning it under their 30-day gaurantee, and trying a warm white bulb instead.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Evolux S led, June 3, 2010

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anonymous99 (California, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: EvoLux S 13 Watt LED Medium Base Long Light Bulb, Cool White (Misc.)

This bulb is about as bright as a 60 watt bulb. Claims about its brightness vary from one web site to another. It is advertised as equivalent to a 100 watt bulb and as the most powerful led bulb you can buy on some web sites. Others don't say this. Many LED bulbs are sold with a statement that they replace a conventional bulb that makes more lumens of light. A web site said it made 1075 lumens from the cool white (bluish white) version which I bought and 1000 lumens from the warm white (orangeish white) version. This would be about as bright as a 75 watt bulb. I was disappointed with the actual brightness. More recently I found web sites that claim 850 cool white and 650 warm white or 650 cool white and 500 warm white although one of them still says that is equivalent to a 100 watt bulb. A 100 watt bulb might make 1500 lumens of light.
This bulb is somewhat directional, although not as directional as a flood light bulb. It did not make radio noise that interfered with my TV.
I suppose the brightness is comparable to a compact fluorescent that uses the same amount of electricity.