Customer Reviews

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

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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.

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.

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.

This handy LED bulb casts a bright, pleasing and consistent light. Although classified as "cool white," it seems to render colors fairly naturally, and does not cast a chalky or antiseptic glow as do old fluorescent bulbs. I agree with the skepticism of other reviewers over the manufacturer's claim to brightness equivalent to a 100-watt incandescent. While I haven't seen any scientific testing of that claim, I would estimate the brightness as closer to a 75-watt incandescent.

The plastic sleeve covering this bulb reads: "Not for use with dimmers" and "Not for use in totally enclosed recessed fixtures." This "long" version measures 5.5 inches long, from end to end. You should carefully measure the length (depth) of your light fixture, to make sure this long bulb will not protrude well beyond the end of your fixture. If your fixture measures well under 5.5 inches deep, you should consider the short version of this bulb -- EvoLux Sh 13 Watt LED Medium Base Short Light Bulb, Cool White -- which measures 4.5 inches from end to end.

This is a pretty bright light. It's more like sunlight than the yellow tone of an incandescent light bulb. I put in inside a white globe on a ceiling fan and am quite satisfied.

Although this light bulb is quite expensive it is absolutely amazing. Very bright and way better than a CFL or incandescent. This lights will go down in price as more people buy them. The CFL lights that everyone buy because they are "green" really strained my eyes and I broke one one time and could not stop coughing for a week because of all the mercury crap that was inside it. This light is very eco friendly and gives off an outstanding shine that will not strain your eyes. Excellent and worth the money (disclaimer I make 250 dollars a week so this was a huge investment and its BIG for me to say a 70 dollar light is worth it!)