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| | LED lamp from GE is not yet available | | 08 Apr 2010 | | GE has unveiled a 9W LED replacement lamp that will be available in late 2010 or 2011, and will produce nearly the same light output as a 40-watt incandescent bulb. | | GE has announced that it is beginning to show customers a 40-watt replacement GE Energy Smart LED bulb that will be available later this year or early 2011.
The lamp is expected to consume just 9 watts, providing a 77 percent energy saving and producing "nearly" the same light output as a 40-watt incandescent bulb, while lasting more than 25 times as long.
GE says that the Energy Smart LED lamp "is expected to outperform currently available products that may be underwhelming consumers right now."
GE says that it designed the bulb "to better direct light downward on the intended surface and all around, not just out the top of a lampshade, as most current LED bulbs are prone to do."
The new GE LED bulb offers 450 lumens, which is the Energy Star threshold to be considered a 40-watt incandescent replacement. Currently available LED bulbs produce 350 lumens or less, claims GE.
GE has filed multiple patent applications for the bulb and expects it will be an Energy Star-qualified LED omnidirectional light bulb.
“This is a bulb that can virtually light your kid's bedroom desk lamp from birth through high school graduation,” says John Strainic, global product general manager, GE Lighting. “It's an incredible advancement that's emblematic of the imagination and innovation that GE's applying to solve some of the world's biggest challenges.”
The lamp contains XLamp XP-G LEDs from Cree. GE expects the retail price to b in the $40-50 range.
+++The following information comes directly from GE's press release+++
GE Energy Smart® LED bulb product snapshot:
Expected to consume just 9 watts—compared with 40-watt incandescent/halogen or 10-watt CFL, while delivering nearly the same light output;
Expected 25,000-hour rated life—will last 17 years (4 hours per day), which is 25 times longer than a general service 40-watt incandescent or halogen bulb and more than 3 times longer than a standard 8,000-hour rated life CFL;
LED technology delivers the instant full brightness of an incandescent or halogen bulb;
Durable solid-state design with no filament to break;
Contains no mercury and will be RoHS compliant; and
Feels cooler to the touch than CFLs and far cooler than incandescent bulbs.
The 9-watt GE Energy Smart® LED bulb, a replacement for 40-watt general service incandescent bulbs, hits store shelves this fall or in early 2011. Retailers set pricing but it is expected to be $40 to $50.
The new bulb joins GE's growing family of LED bulbs in a broad range of shapes, wattages and colors, including, spot and flood lights (PAR20 & PAR30), ceiling fan bulbs (A15), medium globes (G25), small globes (G16.5), candles (CA10), and night lights (C7). All of GE's Energy Smart® LED bulbs are rigorously tested to ensure constant color, long life and verifiable lumen ratings. For more information, visit www.gelighting.com or www.whatsyourlightingstyle.com. To learn about GE's dedication to LED quality standards, visit www.gelighting.com/apples-to-oranges.
GE will put prototypes of the bulb—outfitted with Cree XLamp® XP-G LEDs—on display at two upcoming trade shows: Light + Building 2010 in Frankfurt, Germany, and LightFair 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The high-efficiency, high-lumen-output LEDs used in the GE bulbs are Cree's smallest and brightest lighting-class LEDs, designed specifically for general lighting.
“The introduction of high-quality retrofit light bulbs, like the GE Energy Smart® LED bulb, is a key next step in the LED lighting revolution,” notes Norbert Hiller, Cree vice president and general manager, LED Components.
Strainic adds: “Consumers have been reluctant to move away from less efficient incandescent bulbs because they love the light quality. This new GE Energy Smart® LED bulb will address that lighting preference head-on and give consumers yet another option to light their homes and businesses.”
New Lighting Legislation
Starting in 2012 and continuing through 2014, standard incandescent light bulbs are going away as a result of U.S. federal lighting efficiency standards:
100-watt bulbs can no longer be made in January 2012;
75-watt bulbs can no longer be made in January 2013; and
60- and 40-watt bulbs can no longer be made in January 2014.
GE has consumers covered each step of the way with alternatives such halogen, CFL and LED bulbs that already meet the new efficiency standards. | | COMMENTS | | Name: cjgeddes Posted: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:04 |
| GE is way behind in their LED R&D as well as Manufacturing. Chinese manufacturers are already mass producing 40W Equiv., RoHS compliant, longer lasting, "omnidirectional" bulbs, using only 5W and for half of GE's projected retail price. Not to mention, some Chinese manufacturers are already advertising 60W Equiv. Bulbs... Get with it GE | | Name: danny Posted: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 04:04 |
| i agree with what Cjgeddes said. In China, there are too many factories that produce LED bulbs. But i still think quality, reliability and safety test are very important. | | Name: joeswan Posted: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 03:04 |
| Cree could provide LEDs at twice the brightness in 12 months. Question is can GE/Cree get the pricing down to $10 to get the product moving?
| | Name: justmusing Posted: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:04 |
| Color Temp and CRI of this new bulb?
| | Name: china led head Posted: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:04 |
| As someone who has tested enough Chinese LED based products to fill several dumpsters, it is good to see GE sticking with a REPUTABLE NAME BRAND LED.
So much garbage is getting dumped at fire sale prices because it does not meet requirements (either not UL listed, not energy star compliant, etc.).
People are going to remember the fire sale prices and expect GE quality at fire sale prices. Quick math, an A19 40 Watt bulb is rated typically at 1,000 hours. I can go to Lowes and buy an 8 pack for two dollars...so I have to buy 7 packages of A19 bulbs to get 50,000 hour equivalency...$14 bucks....average USA residential cost per kwh is 11.5 cents.(http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/table5_6_b.html).
The bulb saves 31 watts of power versus standard incandescent, so it takes 32.258064 hours to save 1 killowatt (11.5 cents). Over the 50,000 hour life of the bulb, it will save 1550 kwh versus incandescent. Saving me $178.25! That is great! 50,000 hours is 5.7 years (if left on continually). At $178.25 savings, divided out over 50,000 hours means this bulbs saves me 0.003565 every hour it is on (about 1/3 of a penny). My break even point is at 14,025 hours (if left on continually). This means after 1.6010553 years I am saving money...awesome.
Here is the problem...major problem...lets for simplification use a fractional use that converts really well. 8 hours a day (multiply out your break even point by 3). So instead of 1.6010553 years to break even, it is 4.8031659 years. What do we do for 8 hours a day (at least some of us)? We work...wow, you want my employer to invest in something that has a payback of almost 5 years? Most short sighted corporate giants want an ROI on anything at no more than 3 years and some expect ROI of 18 months!
Oh..whoops...my employer isn't residential they are commerical (10.21 cents per kwh) or worse...industrial (6.84 cents per kwh) meaning the payback is even farther out...ROI's of a decade or more!
Until it is low cost, LED lighting (and yes, I am in the industry) is nothing more than feel good tree hugging global warming hype. We have to continue to move all lighting technology (LED, Organics, and others) ahead, but don't kid yourself or sprain your shoulder trying to pat yourself on the back...we are a LONG way from even being on par with incandescent... | | Name: chuckmillersys Posted: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:04 |
| EarthLED announced a 40 watt replacement for less than $25 using Cree...seriously, is the best GE can do? | | Name: frobe Posted: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:04 |
| GE looks like they have done some research, and they will probably be able to prove their numbers and claims. Chinese lights claim whatever they like, and prove nothing. DOE Energy Star program is trying to remove false claims for LED lights, no LED bulb have been able to be Energy Star approved yet. | | Name: harris Posted: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:04 |
| So let me get this straight, GE by next year will make available a 9 watt bulb that produces the light of a 40 watt incandescent? As a prior post mentioned, Earth LED whom we are the exclusive national distributor of has a 6 and 7 watt "A" bulb that is less expensive, produces more lumens and is available TODAY! GE and the others are so heavily vested in CFL's, why would they currently produce a bulb that can last for 50,000 hrs? This is all about marketing, why kill there cash cow now? Right now a CFL that has no thermal management onboard will last only a fraction of the time they indicate on the box hence, repeat customers.Cutting edge technology is HERE NOW! Stop waiting for the big boys to produce LED's it won't happen for a while. They are building bulbs for the Home Depot's and Lowes however they are so inferior it's laughable. Half the life of ours, half the output and almost the same cost? Please do not judge LED lighting by products you may have seen a year ago. The time to change is now! | | Name: jelsholz Posted: Wed, 12 May 2010 04:05 |
| Lighting Sciences Group just announced an exclusive arrangement thru Home Depot to sell their LED (4W, 50% brighter than 40W bulb, dimmable, 22 year life) for $20. This will kill GE's LED. Administrators Reply See http://www.ledsmagazine.com/press/22332.
It is 9W, not 4W. Also it's 3000K.
Lumen output is 429 lumen, which is less than 40W incandescent, not "50% brighter."
Saying it has a 22 year life is ridiculous. Its 22 years if switched on 6 hours a day. Or 44 years if switched on 3 hours a day. | | Name: ledoptic Posted: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:01 |
| Having said all of this it is still only a 40 WATT incandescant replacement. Doesn't Philips have a 60 watt incandescant LED a-lamp replacement? I think they do and it uses only 12 watts of energy for essentially the same price as GE's 40 watt incandescant replacement. | | Name: redcj35 Posted: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:01 |
| Addressing the Home Depot-exclusive, $20, 800-lumens bulb. Has it been rated by energy star or the governing body that now is putting lighting facts on the boxes? And assembled in America doesn't count as made in America. Once again Home Depot is trying to hide their constant destruction of the American economy. |
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